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“Aurë entuluva”: A therapeutic fellowship | 24.09.2023
Dimitris Kolovos managed to overcome a difficult time in his life thanks to Tolkien. Like Frodo, he felt the weight of the ‘ring’ he was carrying every day. Reading about the heroes and their internal struggles, what it means to fight for good, the light managed to vanquish the darkness within. His...
Because the Night: Greek nightlife in the ’80s [Greek Audio]
Thanos Alexandris discovers the dance floor of the “skyladiko” night clubs outside the big cities and becomes one with their crowd. Wild nights out, money squandered, bouncers, night club girls trying to get patrons to pay for drinks, by the author of the book "Because the Night". Narrator: Tha...
How could I not love you, my Maro? [Greek Audio]
A great love that overcame every hurdle thrown in its way, even the ravages of time. Narrator: Maro Damianidou Researcher: Chaidemeni Paltoglou Podcast Creation: Maya Filippopoulou Sound Design: Iasonas Theofanou, Dimitris Palaiogiannis Sound Editing: Spyros Lymperopoulos Photographs:...
Silent Tracks: Ep.3: Wladyslaw Szpilman (pt.2) | 15 Sept. 2023
Episode 4: The story of Wladyslaw Szpilman (part 2) The episode is dedicated to Władysław (Władek) Szpilman, the master pianist who managed to survive initially inside the Warsaw Ghetto and then in the narrow periphery outside it throughout the war. ERT and Voice of Greece listeners will ha...
“Aurë entuluva”: A therapeutic fellowship [Greek Audio]
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 ... Read more
The mystery of the missing shepherds [Greek Audio]
In 1974, workers building a road in Parnitha, accidentally solve a thirty-year mystery: the mystery of the disappearance of seventeen shepherds from Legrena village during the German Occupation. Narrator: Vangelis Dounas Interview: Stavros Vlachos Podcast creation: Stavros...
Where the sun never rose
The traumatic experiences she went through as a child in the concentration camp at Bergen-Belsen left permanent emotional scars on Rina Revach. Decades later, she will go on a journey of salvation to the place where she learned what true horror means. Interviewee: Rina Revach Interview...
Struggling with my body [Greek Audio]
Elena Topalidou has experienced both the light and the dark side of dance. She gladly started ballet at the age of ten. In adolescence, she wrestled with extreme physical stress and an eating disorder. Later on, she excelled in some of the most important contemporary dance performances. Today, she is...
Sophia’s handkerchief [Greek Audio]
A great love is born in Sindirgi, Asia Minor, between a young man belonging to a well to do family in the region and a poor orphan girl. Their love surpasses all obstacles and they are preparing to get married. But the year is 1922 and the Asia Minor Disaster is approaching. Narrator:...
Silent Tracks: Ep.3: Wladyslaw Szpilman (pt.1) | 15 Sept.2023
The episode is dedicated to Władysław (Władek) Szpilman, the master pianist who managed to survive initially inside the Warsaw Ghetto and then in the narrow periphery outside it throughout the war. ERT and Voice of Greece listeners will have the opportunity to hear Szpilman's shocking oral testimony re...
My grandpa’s execution is my first memory [Greek Audio]
In September 1943, four-year-old Vasilis Papadopoulos witnesses the massacre at Viannos, Crete by the German Nazis, in which more than 20 villages were burned and 461 people of all ages were executed. Narrator: Vasilis Papadopoulos Researcher: Marili Papadopoulou Podcast...
‘The forbidden hand’: Being a leftie in the 60’s [Greek Audio]
A schoolgirl in the 60s has the "misfortune" of being left-handed. A strict teacher, who dislikes all things "left", makes her student’s life unbearable with punishments, yelling and violent behavior. Narrator: Popi Papageorgiou Researcher: Eirini Kotseli Podcast Creation: Haris Pagonidou Sound D...
Meet Myrtis, an eleven-year-old from Ancient Athens
During the construction of the Athens Metro, the skull of child is discovered, who died during the plague in the 5th century BC. Using the skull as a base, Professor Manolis Paparigorakis, who was researching the appearance of ancient Greeks, began to reconstruct the face of the little Athenian, who...
”Take the horses and run! The fire is approaching” [Greek Audio]
In 2014, Depy Kourellou decided to start afresh in North Evia. Fascinated by the area’s nature, she and her sister, Nancy, began rescuing abandoned and abused horses and equines. Everything was going well, until the summer of 2021. Narrator: Depy Kourellou Researcher: Eva K...
The Cretan composer of love [Greek Audio]
Aristides Chairetis aka 'Galiaftis', from Anogia village in Crete explains how his love for nature, life and women made him one of the greatest folk musicians in the island. Narrator: Aristides Chairetis (Gialaftis) Researcher: Nikos Kallergis Podcast creator: Stavros Vlachos Sound designer:...
Silent tracks – Ep.2: Mauthausen | 08 Sept. 2023
Episode 2: The Dark Room of Mauthausen Yona was the eldest of four children born to a working-class Jewish family. The family lived in the Jewish quarter of Pabianice. Yona's father sold merchandise to Polish shops. When the Poles could not pay him for his goods, they would give him food for...
The Istanbul pogrom stigmatized us [Greek Audio]
On the night of September 6, 1955, in Istanbul, Nikos Marousis can see the Turkish mob destroy the church in his neighborhood, amidst rapes and murders. Years later, in the course of his military service, he meets one of the culprits. Narrator: Nikos Marousis Researcher: Daphne Zachariadou Podcast...
Freedom was lurking at the corner [Greek Audio]
An expatriate from Himare escapes from the oppressive everyday life of the Albanian regime, to face the inhospitable welcome in Greece that she so longed to come to know. Her love of all things Greek helps her overcome obstacles, but also brings her face to face with the Albanian police when she returns...