CULTURE

This episode of “"Journeys Basking in Greek Light" with Giannis Papoutsakis was dedicated to the moon. The tribute featured poems by Ritsos, Elytis, Seferis, Varvitsiotis, Livaditis, Leontaris, Gogo, Varveris, Lapathiotis, Karyotakis, and Karelli, along with songs performed by legendary voices such a...

On Sunday, 07 September 2025, at 12:00 Athens time, on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Mikis Theodorakis, the program "Our Town" on Voice of Greece will present songs by the great composer, re-imagined by Greek performers and arrangers. The broadcast highlights how a younger...

One of the most important Greek poets, prose writers, photographers, psychoanalysts, and introducers of surrealism in Greece, Andreas Embirikos left his mark on Greek poetry and thought with his pioneering and daring voice. Jacques Bouchard, a leading Hellenist and professor of Modern Greek literature...

On 7 July, 2025, setting out from Volos, an international and intergenerational crew of seafarers, scientists and artists embarked on a voyage from the Sporades to the Cyclades, and from Corfu to Zakynthos, making stops at selected ports, marinas, and anchorages. The mission: to promote the protection...

This episode of "Journeys Basking in Greek Light" was dedicated to kindness, featuring poems and texts reflecting on this great virtue, and songs by Nikos Androulakis, Takis Konstantakopoulos, Sofia Emfietzi, Kaiti Chomata, Marian Georgiou, among others. Produced and presented by Giannis Papouts...

Giannis Papoutsakis presents a special tribute to the songs of September on this episode of “Journeys Basking in Greek Light”.With songs by Kalogiannis, Protopsalti, Thalassinos, Asteriadi, Xylouris, Peridis, Delivorias, Stratos Dionysiou, and others. Produced and presented by Giannis Papoutsaki...

There are people who resemble mountains, with peaks and slopes, ravines and valleys, carrying both horizons of light and shadows. There are people like seas, from open gulfs to vast oceans, with waters calm or tempestuous, their shores either close at hand or so distant they appear only after long...

"Our Town” with Themis Rodamitis showcases the 9th International Kalamata Music Days festival.  Guest on the program are composer and pianist Stathis Gyftakis, founding member of the festival and Artistic Director of the Kalamata Municipal Conservatory. He shares the vision and philosophy behind...

One of the foremost figures of the Modern Greek Enlightenment… The great Cephalonian prose writer and satirical poet, Andreas Laskaratos, unfolds before us his turbulent life and his rich body of work. A lawyer never accepted by the establishment, almost a doctor, yet ultimately a rare kind of t...

On Sunday, 31 August 2025, Voice of Greece’s program “Our Town” presents “The Universal Mikis”— a creator who was recognized and honored across the globe by millions who saw in him a human symbol of world peace and culture. The episode will feature Mikis Theodorakis’ film music for int...

with Nikoletta Liakostavrou Radio Summer Party!!! A two-hour summer party with the “VinylHolics”! For those who didn’t go on holiday, for those just back from holiday, and for those about to go on holiday! Dimitris Gletzakos, Giorgos and Spyros Arvanitakis on Voice of Greece—back again a...

On Saturday, 30 August 2025, Voice of Greece’s program “Our Town” with Themis Rodamitis hosted Betty Harlafti. The distinguished interpreter of Mikis Theodorakis spoke about the grand concert for world peace, in which she is participating as a guest of the renowned composer Zülfü Livaneli, in Miletus ...

From Alexandria to Marseille, then to Athens, from serving as a wartime radio operator to stepping onto the stage and the big screen to deliver unforgettable laughter—Dinos Iliopoulos is one of the great figures of Greek cinema and theatre. “Time in Greece" presents his story, his body of work, and...

Professor Eleftherios Platon of the Department of History and Archaeology at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens speaks about the history of the Minoan Civilization and the Palace of Knossos, the excavations of Arthur Evans that brought invaluable finds to light, the myth of the Minotaur and the laby...

"Time in Greece" brings to the spotlight the legendary Dire Straits. To stir memories for the older generations – and to let the younger ones discover them… The iconic guitarist Mark Knopfler, one of the greatest in his field, founded the band in 1977 together with his brother David (also on gui...

“Our life is but a flash… yet we can still make it count.” - Nikos Kazantzakis  What is the measure of human existence compared to the billions of years of the universe?  How does someone go from learning to cook a meal or build a piece of furniture, or even creating a work of art -...

Georgios Souris left his mark on his time… Many hated him, but many more adored him. Called the “modern Aristophanes”, he wrote about kings and their kin – and just when you thought he was praising them, he would, through allegory, turn it into biting satire. He was even prosecuted for it! One poe...

“Our Town” presents the second part of the tribute to the musical collaboration of Theodorakis and Lagios. The two composers were friends, lived in the same neighborhood “in the shadow of the Acropolis,” and shared similar musical and aesthetic tastes. Between them, there was mutual respect, love, ad...