In 2009 Anna Ellis, a lawyer from Boston, during a road trip to Greece, accidentally visits the village of Zitsa, looking for a house for couch surfers. There she meets Kostas, her host, who owns the village bakery. The next 24 hours change her life forever.
Narrator: Anna Ellis
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Two brothers from Australia come to Rethymnon, Crete, to pay tribute to their late father, who died as a soldier in the Battle of Crete.
A 7.5-year-old boy who watched his mother, his grandmother, his aunt, and two other women being executed.
ERT’s crew records unknown stories from the Battle o...
Istorima is the largest project for recording and preserving oral histories of Greece. More than 1,000 young researchers find narrators listen, collect and preserve stories of people from all over Greece: Stories of their hometowns, stories of love, stories that changed Greece or defined it, modern or old stories. Stories that are not recorded in the history books and that could easily be lost in time. It was created by the journalist Sofia Papaioannou and the historian Katherine Fleming and is implemented with a founding grant from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF), as part of its initiative to Restart and ... Read more
ERT journalist Thomas Sideris presents a radio documentary of a total duration of 55 minutes, about the daring plan of two young students to take down the swastika from the Acropolis on the evening of May 30, 1941, almost a month after the surrender of Athens to the Nazis.
The documentary...
The untrodden mountains of Crete became the pockets of resistance of the people against the conquerors during World War ΙΙ, from Myrtos, Vorizia, Damasta, Anogia to Sfakia. The Cretans proved in practice that the struggle to defend freedom is a matter for everyone, children, adults, elderly, men and w...
A place where time did not count, a meeting place, a library: Chrysoula and her partner open a clock shop at Antigonidon street in Thessaloniki and in just 12 square meters, they discover a whole world.
Narrator: Chrysoula PapadopoulouResearcher: Sissy PapadopoulouPodcast Creation:...
In February 2011, armed assailants robbed two banks in Fthiotida. This was followed by a cinematic chase by police officers, with a shootout and a deadly outcome.
Narrator: Christos VlachosResearcher: George KaragiorgosPodcast Creation: Stavros VlachosSound Design: Dimitris PalaiogiannisAudio...
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Vivi never met her grandfather, Giorgos, and her grandmother, Paraskevi. All he had heard was that they were lost in the wreck of the Atlantic Empress, in 1979. Growing up, Vivi realized that she knew almost nothing about her mother's family, as...
The trek begins on September 15, 1943 in the village of Myrtos when the German officer declares to the president of the village that the village will burn and gives a deadline of two hours for the residents to take what they can and leave. On the same day as the destruction of Myrtos, the conquerors enter the village of Gdohia, after previously arresting and executing on the spot in various places twelve villagers from Gdohia and Kato Symi, including three women and a six-month-old baby.
On Friday, April 26th, Voice of Greece and Thomas Sideris continue the journey to the martyred villages of Crete, documenting the chronicle of the Battle of Crete in May and June 1941, as well as all the events that followed in the following years, during the Nazi occupation.
The...
Historical tribute to the mass slaughter of 327 people by the Nazis and their local collaborators, in Katranitsa, Kozani on April 23th and 24th, 1944.
The holocaust of the martyred community of Pyrgoi is the second largest in history after Kalavryta. The German operation with the collusion of Greek...
Series: The Unknown Story Behind a Photograph
Persecution, murders, attacks, traffic accidents: Giorgos Megas, a motor police officer, talks about his experiences the last 30 years on the road.
Narrator: Giorgos MegasResearcher: Spyros KarampikasPodcast Creation: Stavros VlachosSound...
Voice of Greece and Thomas Sideris continue the journey to the martyred villages of Crete and present a radio documentary about the Viannos massacres, one of the largest massacres of civilians on Greek soil by the regular army of Nazi Germany.
The holocaust of the villages of Viannos province in...
Growing up in Italy, Ariana felt an inexplicable attraction to Ancient Greece. She loved Ariadne’s myth and saw the princess as her alter ego. Following her personal “thread”, Ariadne is now a digital nomad living in Rhodes.
Interviewee: Arianna MagnaniInterview by: Demie Hadji...
Kostas Gkorogias joins the army in '48 in the middle of the Civil War and ends up fighting for two years with the National Army. Until the day Napalm bombs hit the mountains of Epirus and Macedonia.
Narrator: Kostas GkorogiasResearcher: Valantis ChiltasPodcast Creation: Andreas PappasSound Design:...
Everything that prison officer Tzortzis Hymas saw in the prisons of Trikala, Grevena, Larissa and Korydallos is shocking, but also often surprising.
Narrator: Tzortzis HymasResearcher: Olga PaparazziPodcast Creation: Stavros VlachosSound Design: Iasonas TheofanouAudio Editing: Spyros...
The tenth episode of the radio series "Forgotten Villages" is dedicated to a great woman from Anogia, an emblematic female figure of the Cretan resistance and the great struggle of the Anogia people.
The central character is Zacharenia Skoula, a suffering but strong woman, who saw the whole story ...
Series: Occupation through the eyes of its childrenFanoula grows up in Veria when the first Italian planes fly over the city. Wild and lively as a child, she gets involved in various adventures and becomes a witness to all the important events that unfold in occupied Greece.
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