On the morning of May 29th, 1999, Eleni Tsolaka boards a intercity bus from Thessaloniki and observes a young man among the passengers with a weird look on his face. In the next few hours, an unprecedented incident for Greece plays out, with a tragic ending taking place on Albanian soil.
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The dragon's breath, the captive princess and the grandparents who once were knights and fairies: Myths and legends of the dragon houses of Karystos.
Narrator: Evangelia Athanasiou
Researcher: Nektaria Peroulaki
Podcast Creation: Stavros Vlachos
Sound Design: Dimitris Palaiogiannis
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Is the butcher shop a place for a woman to work at? A question that never crossed the mind of Vangelio Petrou, who with craftmanship, love and perseverance became Athens' first female butcher.
Narrator: Vangelio Petrou
Researcher: Christina Petrou
Podcast Creation: Charis Pagonidou
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Who is the bouncer going to let in? What new music is the DJ playing? Why is the dance floor so slippery? A young man works at the first disco at Filotas in Florina and remembers the beautiful, yet also extreme scenes of the then novel nightlife trend.
Narrator: Giannis Kerlovas
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In 1954, the National Organization of Cypriot Fighters (EOKA) prepares for the beginning of the armed struggle, with the aim of expelling the British from Cyprus. Ammunition is sent in from Greece to reach the island on small boats. Giannis Karatzis takes part in one of these secret missions.
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The three-day barricading, the tank invasion and the evacuation of the Polytechnic. Takis Nikolakopoulos, a freshman back then, remembers the days that changed his life.
Narrator: Takis NikolakopoulosResearcher: Dimitris PanagopoulosPodcast Creation: Thanos PsychogiosSound Design: Iasonas...
During his breaks from working on the tobacco fields, Thomas Kartsaklis played football on a dirt field, using a goal post made up of two reeds. A few years later, he would find himself in the biggest football stadiums in Greece.
Narrator: Thomas Kartsaklis
Researcher: Danai...
Stratos Vassiliou has been roaming the villages of the prefecture of Xanthi for years with his pick-up-truck and a movie projector, organizing screenings and offering magical moments to their inhabitants.
Narrator: Stratos Vasileiou
Researcher: Papadopoulou Theodosia
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Amletos, Graikoi and Botides: Giorgos Rarakos has a fond recollection of the first steps he took in music, wearing the uniform of the Old Philharmonic of Corfu.
Narrator: Giorgos Rarakos
Researcher: Mariliza Vlastou
Podcast Creation: Maya Filippopoulou
Sound Design: Iasonas...
In Mount Olympus of Karpathos in 1983, the wives of the seafarers make their own Epitaph.
Narrator: Manolis Bardanis
Researcher: Euthymia Papagiannopoulou
Podcast Creation: Maya Philippopoulou
Sound Design: Nicholas Konstantinou
Sound Editing: Thanos Zampoukas
Music: William...
Climber Antonis Sykaris, who has climbed Mount Everest and four of the highest peaks of more than 8,000 meters in the world, talks about success and the risk of death.
Narrator: Evangeli Farini
Researcher: Maria - Christina Apostolopoulou
Podcast Creation: Andreas...
Konstantinos is at his family’s get-together for Easter in Crete, when he suddenly feels severe chest pain.
Narrator: Konstantinos Sagkriotis
Research:Katerina Vagionaki
Podcast Creation: Stavros Vlachos
Sound Design: George Ramantanis
Sound Editing: Dimitris Papadakis
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During the post-civil war years in Thessaloniki, a seemingly forbidden love arises between a young communist and a girl from a royal family. What happens when their families discover their relationship?
Narrator: Evangeli Farini
Researcher: Maria - Christina Apostolopoulou
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In 1968, Aristidis Pagratidis was executed in Thessaloniki, as the perpetrator of a series of murders and assaults that had appalled the city. Decades later, former public prosecutor Konstantinos Logothetis, investigating the case, elaborates on his serious doubts about who was the real perpetrator,...
Από τη Φλώρινα στα Γρεβενά και από εκεί στην Αθήνα και με τελικό σταθμό την Ικαρία ταξίδεψε η εκπομπή της Παρασκευής. Η Θωμαίς Αδάμου από τη Φλώρινα μίλησε για το πως προετοιμάζονται για τις άγιες ημέρες του Πάσχα οι Έλληνες της Δυτικής Μακεδονίας, μίλησε για τα ήθη και τα έθιμα, αλλά και τους προορι...
Kyriakoula Giannakari, one of the last surviving speakers of “Sfyria”, the whistling language of the village of Antia in Evia, talks about the language and life in the village.
Narrator: Kyriaki Giannakari
Interview: Stavros Vlachos
Podcast Creation: Stavros Vlachos
Sound Design: Ias...
The first tattoo he did on himself, at the tender age of eleven years old. Spyros Agathos, Corfu's oldest tattoo artist, on a journey of indelible ink.
Narrator: Spyros Agathos
Researcher: Maria Makri
Podcast Creation: Maya Filippopoulou
Sound Design: George Ramantanis
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Imitations, pranks, and teasing: a way of amusing himself at school, which became a way to make a living. Through an interview he gave to his daughter, Giorgos Mitsikostas reminds us that laughter is the best medicine.
Narrator: Giorgos Mitsikostas
Researcher: Martha Mitsikosta
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