“Remarkable Personalities” turns to April 1941 and Greece’s northern front, where one of the most dramatic—and at the same time heroic—chapters of modern Greek history unfolded: the Battle of the Metaxas Line.
Konstantinos Lagos, Professor of Air Force History at the Hellenic Air Force Academy a...
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On Tuesday 14 April 2026, at 22:00 (Athens time), Voice of Greece’s program “Sound Portraits” with Stavroula Karali presents a special tribute to the great laïko composer and songwriter Akis Panou—a journey through music and storytelling.
The program sheds light on lesser-known aspects of his life...
Seven poems each week—one Greek poem every day—travel across the frequencies of Voice of Greece, reaching the far corners of the world wherever Greek voices are heard. The week from 13 to 19 April 2026 is dedicated to the poet Charalambos Giannakopoulos.
Charalambos Giannakopoulos was born in Ath...
In the Easter Sunday edition of "Ariadni's Thread", on Sunday 12 April 2026 at 18:00 (Athens time), we set the scene for a joyful radio gathering filled with music, high spirits, and the aromas of Greece. Raise a glass of ouzo and join us for an uplifting musical celebration with Stavros Tsantes and...
On Easter Sunday, 12 April 2026, from 16:00 to 18:00 (Athens time), the Voice of Greece program "Our Town" with Themis Rodamitis presents the first part of the tribute titled "Tsitsanis’ Festive Songs".
The tribute features songs by the iconic composer who united generations of Greeks and left a...
On Easter Sunday, 12 April 2026, at 14:00 (Athens time), the program "Laïkoi Dromoi" with Elena Falirea welcomes the band "Oi Acharneis", along with singers Maria Plyta and Kostas Mantzios, at Studio B of Hellenic Radio. Tune in for an enjoyable two-hour show featuring beloved laïko songs, specially d...
This Sunday, 12 April 2026 at 20:00 (Athens time), on Orthodox Easter Sunday, "Infinitely Curious" with Katerina Batzaki travels far beyond Greece — all the way to Australia — in a deeply human exploration of identity, memory and what it truly means to be Greek.
What happens to Easter when it cro...
Holy Wednesday, 08 April 2026
13:00–14:00 | “The Practice of Living” with Nasia Bouloukou The program welcomes Professor Dimitris Linos—Emeritus Professor of Surgery at the Medical School of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and Lecturer in Surgery at Har...
On Holy Saturday, 11 April 2026, from 12:00 to 13:00 (Athens time), the Voice of Greece program “Our Town” with Themis Rodamitis presents an episode titled “Songs and Hymns from East and West.”
Guest in the studio, Fenia Papadodima speaks about the devotional element as expressed across different countri...
On Good Friday, 10 April 2026, at 00:00 (Athens time), "Remarkable Personalities" with Stavroula Karali welcomes Sotiris Despotis, Professor at the Department of Social Theology and Religious Studies of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, specializing in the interpretation of the New...
On Good Friday, the Divine Drama reaches its peak. Just hours before the Epitaph procession, we explore distinctive customs from every corner of Greece.
We will speak about the Epitaph procession in Kaminia, Hydra, with Mayor Giorgos Koukoudakis; about the meeting of the three Epitaphs in Syros with...
The English-language music program of Voice of Greece, "Greek Music Express" with Hercules Economou, draws a powerful connection between Easter and the sacrifice of Christ and the sacrifice of the 200 Resistance fighters executed in Kaisariani in 1944.
Photographs from their execution were recently...
“I, Polybius of Megalopolis, was born in Megalopolis and lived in the era when the Romans were laying the foundations of their great empire—when they also conquered Greece. When the Romans entered the Peloponnese and took Megalopolis, I was captured and taken as a hostage to Rome. There, I began wri...
Archimandrite Filotheos Dedes, Director of Church Construction at the Holy Synod and cleric of the Archdiocese of Athens, is featured on “Remarkable Personalities” on Holy Thursday, 09 April 2026, at 08:00 (Athens time), as part of Voice of Greece’s special Holy Week programming.
Father Filotheos refle...
On Thursday, 09 April 2026, at 12:00 (Athens time), the program “Imprint” with Fuli Zavitsanou welcomes art historian Faye Tzanetoulakou, on the occasion of the new exhibition “Small Rituals of Spring: A Requiem from the Future”, which she curates at Lofos Art Project (18 April – 01 May 2026).
She discusses...
On Holy Wednesday, 08 April 2026, at 22:00 (Athens time), “Remarkable Personalities” with Stavroula Karali welcomes Professor Efstathios Lianos Liantis, Vice President of the Department of Social Theology and Religious Studies at the School of Theology of the National and Kapodistrian University of ...
On Holy Wednesday, 08 April 2026, at 13:00 (Athens time), the Voice of Greece program “The Practice of Living”, hosted by journalist Nasia Bouloukou, welcomes Professor Dimitris Linos—Emeritus Professor of Surgery at the Medical School of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Lecturer in Su...
On Holy Tuesday, 07 April 2026, at 22:00 (Athens time), Voice of Greece presents a special Holy Week edition of “Sound Portraits”, curated and hosted by Stavroula Karali, exploring the profound unity of theology, poetry, and music.
Tracing the arc of Holy Week—from Holy Monday to the culmination of th...
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