Don't Miss

Tune in on Friday, 11 August at 15.00 Athens time to catch the latest episode of the show The Elves of Tradition, with a tribute to beautiful folk songs from Epirus that are characteristically inspired by the themes of migration and exile. Featuring a performance by Savas Siatras and his band, exclusicely...

On August 15th, Voice of Greece gives sound to the Assumption of the Virgin Mary celebrations in Greece with a specially curated program, dedicated to Greeks around the world.   Each Holy Virgin (‘Panagia’) in Greece has its own location, history, customs and songs, and Voice of Greece will kick...

Tune in on Thursday, 10 August at 16.00 (Athens time to lis5ten to the latest episode of the show the Voice that Unites Us, withGiaanna Triantafylli. This episode's special guest will be Yiota Stavridou, educator and coordinator of the Educational Institute “Hellenism of Anatolia – from the Aegean Sea...

A radio documentary in two parts, dedicated to a great singer and woman, Katina Farasopoulou.Katina, a refugee from Cappadocia, carried within her the pain of being uprooted.This pain later took the form of a song, which took root in people's souls.Katina spoke to Thomas Sideris, a few weeks before...

Stories of people from all over Greece: 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. This week's episodes you shouldn't miss: Monday 07 August ''The ...

Green energy as a term sounds sexy and promising . In a nutshell, Clean energy is energy gained from sources that do not release air pollutants, while green energy is energy derived from natural sources. There is a subtle difference between these two energy types even though they are often spoken of...

Tune in on Saturday 5 August to listen to the new episode of Maria Karagiannaki's Narratives, the 6th part of the show's anniversary tribute to the Asia Minor Catastrophe, and find out how the series of events that led to the uprooting of Greeks from Asia Minor was reflected in press reports.From the...

On Saturday, August 5, at 11.00 Athens time, Efthimia Pavlakis will be a guest on Mina Ralli's weekly show Remarkable Personalities. Mrs. Pavlakis, Professor of Spanish Language and Literature at the University of Athens, has greatly contributed in establishing the faculty of Spanish Language and...

This episode of Unguarded Passage conveys the full atmosphere of August, by recollecting precious cinematic moments from films that are characteristically set in August, accompanied of course by the relevant soundtrack. Astrophysicist Fanis Smanis goes into details about this month's celestial...

Bessie Karras-Lazaris, President of the Greek Heritage Society of Southern California, will be a guest on this week's episode of the Voice that Unites Us, on Thursday 3 September at 16.00 (Athens time).Mrs. Lazaris has co-produced and translated a documentay film trilogy, narrated by Academy Award...

On August 3, 2021, Northern Evia burst in flames. A local man describes this haunting experience. He always loved dancing, but could never imagine he would become not just a professional dancer, but Director of Studies at the Greek National Opera Professional Dance School. Stories of people from...

The creative output of Yannis Markopoulos on modern Greek music is indisputable. Apart from his numerous song cycles based on setting famous Greek poems to music, Markopoulos excelled in symphonic music, oratorios, and music for film and theater.Voice of Greece Radio bids farewell to the visionary modern...

Voice of Greece radio honors the anniversary of the Distomo massacre through a commemorative radio documentary which takes the form of a shattering testimony, conveying the true proportions of the tragedy that took place in June 10, 1944, in the village of Distomo, in Boeotia. ERT’s journalist T...

On Friday, June 9, 20.00021.00 Athens time, the show Our Town will make a little tribute to Leonard Cohen. The singer-songwriter left a considerable legacy behind, in terms of his body of work as well as his poetic way of life. What he loved, lived and truly believed in will be revisited...

Voice of Greece radio presents a major tribute to Maria Callas, on the occasion of the centennial anniversary of her birth (included in UNESCO’s list of anniversary celebrations for the year 2023.) It is a collaboration between ERT’s International Program Department, the...