INTERVIEWS

“Hellenes Everywhere” with Thanasis Houpis – Christmas 2025

Maria Georgoula, Social Worker and Scientific Director of the Day Care and Daily Support Centre for Persons with Disabilities, speaks about the work of the Seafarers’ Parents Association for Persons with Disabilities ARGO.She presents the association’s history, mission, and activities, highlighting its...

In the Voice of Greece studio, lawyer Maria Panagiotou explains how the surveillance system operates and the five subsystems that underpin it. The discussion explores how cameras are reshaping everyday life—what is recorded, how it is recorded, and how long such material remains accessible—while exa...

Andreas Angelopoulos, livestock breeder, farmer, and author, is a guest on "Hellenes Everywhere".

Greece claimed the silver medal at the European Team Sailing Championship (ILCA 4). Italy took gold, while Sweden secured bronze. Fragiski Kosma, Eleni Alchanaki, Stefanos Samaras, and Michalis Akalestos delivered this significant international success for Greek sport. Head coach Nikos Chrysos...

The program "Take Your Time", hosted by Prokopis Agelopoulos, welcomed the talented actress Danae Loukaki to the studio, on the occasion of her participation in the new film “Love Is Written…”, directed by Vasilis Myrianthopoulos, with a screenplay by Vasilis Myrianthopoulos and Konstantina Giahali. The film ...

On the program "Take Your Time", hosted by Prokopis Agelopoulos, Katia Nikolaou—educator and member of Zohran Mamdani’s campaign team in his run for the office of Mayor of New York—spoke about her role in the campaign and her life in the city. Katia Nikolaou left her homeland, Cyprus, in 1981 to se...

On Thursday, December 18, the program "Imprint" with Fuli Zavitsanou welcomed journalist, radio producer, and author Pavlos Methenitis to the studio of Voice of Greece, on the occasion of his recently published short story collection titled “Tsigamaki,” released by Evmaros Publications. He spoke abo...

How a foreign-language teacher and a firefighter decided to travel the whole world and turned it into a life bet. We meet Athanasia Velliou and Danis Staios and travel with them to 58 (!) countries, learning about their experiences… The couple from Thessaloniki finds time in everyday life to escape… and...

Astrophysicist Antonis Antoniou, Professor in the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications at the University of the Peloponnese, is the featured guest on this episode of “Remarkable Personalities”, presented by Stavroula Karali. In a compelling exploration that bridges science and fa...

Stathis (Steve) Georganas, a federal member of the Australian Parliament, referred to the recent Islamist terrorist attack that claimed the lives of 16 people in Sydney, to the promising positive outcome of the twinning between Athens and Adelaide, to Hellas Melbourne and the other Greek football clubs...

Radio officer Evangelia Andrikopoulou from Kardamyla, Chios, speaks on "Fair Winds and Following Seas" and on Voice of Greece. The sea and seamanship have been the defining elements of her life and her family’s life. She remembers her father leaving for voyages with his seafarer’s bag and returning aft...

Harry Theoharis, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, spoke about the impressions and conclusions he drew from his participation in the outward-looking event “Rebrain Greece”, organized by the Ministry of Labour to encourage the repatriation of Greek scientists, which took place in New York. He also ref...

Vasilis Notaras from Mesochoria, Karpathos, speaks on “Fair Winds and Following Seas” on Voice of Greece. “For me, the sea is a way of life. I loved it, and I loved life aboard ships. If I could, I would still sign on and sail today,” says Vasilis, whose brothers were also seafarers. He graduated from th...

Captain Michalis A. Chatzipetros, from the seafaring island of Kasos, speaks on “Fair Winds and Following Seas” on Voice of Greece. This period finds him on another historic maritime island, Syros, where two vessels belonging to the company he works for are undergoing repairs. Captain Chatzipetros ser...

Professor Dr Athanasios Platias, President of the Greek Council of International Relations, is a guest on "Hellenes Everywhere".

Andreas Vasileiou, who took part in the Cypriot anti-colonial resistance and the 1957 attack on the British base at Akrotiri, on "Hellenes Everywhere".

The bronze medal at the European Boxing Championships, in the 80 kg category, marks Vasiliki Stavridou’s fourth medal at this competition. It follows one silver medal in 2021 and two bronze medals in 2023 and 2024. She spoke about her journey to the third step of the podium in Hungary, in the under-23 a...