On the Friday edition of the program, 5 December 2025, we spoke with Panagiotis Margetis, Mayor of Megara, about the problems the municipality faced during the severe weather front Byron, which caused flooding both in Megara and in Nea Peramos.
After the review of the morning papers, we analyzed...
Kostas Politis, President of the Greek Community in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, spoke on Voice of Greece and the program “Our Global Voice” with Dimitris Kontogiannis about the history of the Greeks who found themselves in this landlocked Central Asian country, and about the new prospects now opening up ...
Athina Vorilla was born in Manhattan, studied journalism, and worked — among others — for the New York Times. Yet nostalgia for her father’s music and her lifelong love for Greece brought her here… This New Yorker, who declares herself in love with Schinoussa, has been living in Greece since 2005. S...
Businessman Panagiotis Koutsikos, Honorary Consul of El Salvador in Greece, spoke on Voice of Greece and the program “Our Global Voice” with Dimitris Kontogiannis about the social and economic situation in the most densely populated country of mainland Latin America, focusing on the drastic measures tak...
Thassos Bampalikis, a restaurant entrepreneur based in Portugal and, secondarily, in Spain, spoke about his professional journey, focusing on his Greek-cuisine restaurants in Lisbon, as well as the challenges posed by the housing crisis and rising living costs. He shared his insights on Voice of Greece...
In this episode, "Faraway Words" welcomed two representatives of the Lyceum Club of Greek Women of Sydney: President Liana Vertzagia and Vice President Dimitra Michopoulou.
Liana Vertzagia’s family arrived in Australia in 1897. Raised with Greek customs, traditions, and culture, she became active i...
What does it mean to be young, Greek, and raised thousands of kilometers from the Aegean?What does Greekness sound like when spoken in an encouraging family environment in Washington … or a Cape Town rhythm… an Imvros breeze… or a Romanian heartbeat?
On this episode of “Infinitely Curious”, host ...
“Greeks Around the World – Greece in Argentina”, hosted by Christina Tsardikou, featured philologist Fotini Katsiva.
Fotini Katsiva is an outstanding philologist, a top graduate of the Department of Philosophy, Pedagogy and Psychology (PPP) of the School of Philosophy at the National and Kapodistrian Unive...
Giorgos Rigas lives in Montreal, Canada, with family roots in a village in Messinia, near Kalamata. This year he is participating in the Symposium for the first time, following an invitation he received from the Greek Consulate in his city.
He speaks about the powerful experience of meeting young...
Apostolos Zezos is one of the young participants attending this year’s Symposium for the second consecutive time, an event organized by the General Secretariat for Greeks Abroad and Public Diplomacy. He is 21 years old and moved with his family to Canada—specifically to Toronto—at the age of just nine....
In the Friday edition of the program on 28 November 2025, we heard two more interviews with young members of the Greek Diaspora, recorded during their participation in the 2nd Greek Youth Diaspora Symposium, organized by the General Secretariat for Greeks Abroad and Public Diplomacy at the Hellenic...
Anastasios Tamis, a distinguished diaspora researcher and Emeritus Professor of Greek Diaspora History, spoke about the history of the Greeks of Perth and the sparsely populated region of Western Australia more broadly—particularly the early Kastellorizian settlers and, later, the Macedonians.
He w...
Diaspora youth Elisa Bruni from Italy, Dimitra Konstanti from Germany, Amanda Thomas from Canada, Melina Mygdalis from Argentina, and Emily Pandis from the United States—participants in the 2nd Greek Youth Diaspora Symposium, organized in Athens by the General Secretariat for Greeks Abroad and Public D...
Listen to the first in a series of interviews given by young Greeks from abroad to the program “Take Your Time” on Voice of Greece, recorded during the Greek Youth Diaspora Symposium held at the Hellenic Cosmos Cultural Centre on Piraeus Street.
Efrosyni Vergitsi, just 17 years old, is taking par...
Speaking about the work of the 2nd Greek Youth Diaspora Symposium, which concludes on Friday, 28 November, the General Secretary for Greeks Abroad and Public Diplomacy, Maira Myrogianni, joined the program “Take Your Time” from the Hellenic Cosmos Cultural Centre. There, young Greeks of the 2nd and...
On the Thursday edition of the program, 27 November 2025, we spoke with ERT’s correspondent in Turkey, Pierros Tzanetakos, who is covering the historic visit of Pope Leo XIV to the neighbouring country. Immediately after reviewing the day’s online and print headlines, we talked with Eleni Tserezole, jou...
The program hosted Zoe Delibasis, head of the cultural department at the Canadian Institute in Greece. The conversation centered on the exhibition “The Kastorians in Canada: Recollections of a Community,” which opens on Wednesday, 26 November, and will be open to the public from 27 November through 18 ...
“Infinitely Curious” with Katerina Batzaki, opens a chapter of Greece’s hidden history. A story of mothers, children… and the silent heartbreak of forced adoption. Our guest is James P. Axiotis, Greek-American producer and humanitarian, adopted from Athens in 1963 and separated from his mother — ...
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