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Natasa Vissarionos
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The ‘Lord’ of the Acropolis
Do we really see everything on an archaeological site? What goes on when the visitors leave? What special requests do visitors make? Sotiris Gousis worked as a technician on the Acropolis for decades. He knows all its hidden secrets and shares a few of them with us…  Interviewee: Sot...
The top scorer in the history of Aris [Greek Audio]
Dinos Kouis, the iconic football player of Aris, has made sure to embellish his talent with hard work and preparation. After a successful career on the courts, he continues to believe that if you really want something, you will surely achieve it. Narrator: Dinos KouisResearcher:...
Hijackings and aircraft crashes at the abandoned airport | Friday 01 September 2023
[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...
Silent Tracks – Ep.1: The invasion of Polland | 01 Sept. 2023
Episode 1: The Invasion of Polland Listen to the first episode of the 14-part radio documentary series ”Silent tracks: The people behind the Holocaust”, based Thomas Sideris’ book by the same title. [with Greek Audio]The first radio documentary in the series, entitled "The Invasion of Poland, Autum...
Konstantinos Rigos: Around the world by dancing [Greek Audio]
The first memory he has of dancing was as a teenager, outside the "Pallas" cinema in Pagrati, after the movie "Saturday Night Fever". Konstantinos Rigos, Ballet Director of the Greek National Opera, recalls his first trips abroad: Tbilisi, Batumi, Bogota, Caracas. Some episodic… Interviewee: K...
The greatest scam of my life [Greek Audio]
Perhaps 'easy money' isn't that easy, after all. Giorgos Giannoulakis was living the high life with all the money, confort and luxury he could wish for...until the day his beloved uncle's scam came to light. Up util the day, his uncle's whereabouts are unkown. Interviewee: Giorgos...
A sea of wreckage [Greek Audio]
One spring afternoon of 1954, a group of boys from Sofades, Karditsa are walking through a meadow, when a great earthquake lets them witness an unprecedented sight of nature. It was the earthquake of Sofades that left behind 25 dead, hundreds injured and 6500 damaged buildings. Interviewee: Thanasis...
Tolkien: New myths from old?
Tolkien wanted to create a mythology for the British ‘like that of the Greeks’. Was Galadriel, the queen of elves, inspired by Circe and Calypso? Bilbo by Odysseus? What do Ajax and Boromir have in common, and what is the link between the fate of Atlantis and the fall of Numenor? Interviewee: Dim...
Karagiozis will never grow old [Greek Audio]
Who is Karagiozis after all? Sokratis Kotsores, Karagiozis puppeteer, analyzes, with a sense of humor and a love of his art, the multiple personalities and readings of Karagiozis, who are still alive to this day. Interviewee: Socrates KotsoresRerearcher: Penny VassilakiPodcast...
Unguarded Passage: The Wagner Group, the chef, the warlord and the traitor | 25.08.2023
A radio documentary about the infamous leader of the Wagner mercenary group Yevgeny Prigozhin, who has been active on various war fronts for the past ten years and played a pivotal and dark role in the events following Russia's invasion of Ukraine in March 2022. Prigozhin's social rise and acquisition...
The Germans saved our village [Greek Audio]
During the Occupation, Bulgarian troops approach Paleokastro, Serres. Then a woman draws out a plan. Interviewee: Koula AlexandridouRerearcher: Konstantinos DoganisPodcast Creation: Maia FilippopoulouSound Designer: Giorgos RamantanisSound Editor: Dimitris PapadakisPhotos...
A radio pirate from Tinos island [Greek Audio]
In the 70s, in the village Pyrgos of Tinos island, a sculpture student opens the “pirate” amateur radio station "Unknown X". How many different music genres can possibly fit into a single music show? How can song dedications to people over the radio lead to fights and breakups? And how unknown was "Un...
The lost El Greco
In the middle of the 16th century, the painter Domenikos Theotokopoulos, who would later become widely known as El Greco, painted an icon of the Virgin Mary in Crete. Wars, revolutions, massacres, and persecutions followed. People fled, taking this icon with them across the Aegean, and the identity...
Whatever happened to the warship ELLI? [Greek Audio]
The bronze parts were sold, the bridge was torn to pieces, the gunpowder has become fireworks for children... Zannakis Kalamaras recounts what happened to the wreck of the ELLI, which was torpedoed on Tinos by an Italian submarine on August 15, 1940. Narrator: Zannakis KalamarasInterview...
My birth was the reason my father survived [Greek Audio]
In the summer of 1944, in Nice, while the local collaborators of the Germans carry out indiscriminate arrests and executions, the birth of a child saves the life of a resistance fighter. A short time later, at the Kokkinia roadblock, Greek traitors lead hundreds of patriots to their death. Interviewee:...
I witnessed the torpedoing of ELLI in Tinos island [Greek Audio]
On August 15th, 1940, little Katerina Marquizou witnesses the explosions from the torpedoes that sank ELLI. A few days later, at the hospital on the island where the injured sailors are being treated, he hears a song she would never forget. Interviewee: Katerina MarkouizouRerearcher:...
I saw the warship Elli going down [Greek Audio]
Evangelia Messinezi-Vassilopoulou recounts the dramatic moments she experienced on August 15, 1940, seeing the torpedoing of the cruiser ELLI, in the port of Tinos. Interviewee: Evangelia Messinezi-VasilopoulouRerearcher: Stavros VlachosPodcast Creation: Stavros VlachosSound Designer: Dimitris...
A field of poppies
In a field outside Palaiokastro Serres, in the 1950s, a family cultivates poppies – without knowing their “side effects”. Interviewee: Kula AlexandridouInterview by: Konstantinos DoganisProducer: Maya FilippopoulouSound Designer: Nikolas KonstantinouSound Editor: Spyros LymperopoulosPhotos: Stefa...