Tributes

A show filled with songs we’ve cherished and melodies that stir memories—featuring tributes to influential artists, primarily from the Greek music scene, while also celebrating the voices of jazz and global musical culture. Produced and presented by Stelios Ioannidis

Nasos Matrakas is one of the most interesting singer-songwriters of a slightly older generation, having first appeared in the discography in 1994. Thankfully, he continues to offer his knowledge and his talent to today's artistic reality. As for Stavros Stavridis, the number 1 element that captivates...

A story of struggle and Resistance. Five fighters of EAM (National Liberation Front) are led to the gallows of the Nazi executioners in the square of Lixouri, Kefalonia. They are the professor and philologist Dionysis Ratsiatos, Gavriil Rallatos together with his son Vasileios, Antonis Lixouriotatos,...

Today, we will be enjoying a rather predictable partnership between Greek rock and the theme of streets and roads. Why predictable? Because the roads contain all the mystery, the dynamism, the freedom found in rock. They are unexpected, unknown, noisy and burning, just like our rock songs are. From...

Every Friday, "Time in Greece" takes you back into the world of press history. Nikolas Angelidis becomes your time-travel guide, turning the calendar back to a specific date and leafing through the newspapers of that day. Today, we open the issue of the newspaper“Αθλητική Ηχώ” (Athlitiki Echo) from Fri...

Today, we will be enjoying a rather predictable partnership between Greek rock and the theme of streets and roads. Why predictable? Because the roads contain all the mystery, the dynamism, the freedom found in rock. They are unexpected, unknown, noisy and burning, just like our rock songs are. From...

Politician, diplomat, historian, poet, novelist, journalist, essayist, writer, soldier, translator, biographer... All these titles belong to one man – and that’s no exaggeration! François-Auguste-René de Chateaubriand, a figure of French literature, fell so deeply in love with Greece –its struggl...

Roads are a permanent theme of Greek popular song; they represent fate, motion, life itself, with its multiple options and choices, its dilemmas, its dead ends, its fresh starts. Roads can be wide but they can also be narrow, tired and tiring, straight or with obstructions, empty and closed. And those...

Today we once again turn back the pages of the calendar and open the ledgers of history. We arrive in 1843, on the 3rd of September… A movement breaks out in Athens with the aim of establishing parliamentarianism against absolute monarchy… The uprising proceeds successfully… The absolutism of King ...

A tribute episode of "Irregular Notes" dedicated to the great Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis. The broadcast focuses on the life of Mikis Theodorakis, tracing his long journey in music composition and his settings of poetry by major creators such as Yannis Ritsos, Odysseas Elytis, Giorgos Seferis,...

Antonis Vardis was a major composer and singer-songwriter who sadly passed away on September 2, 2014, at the age of just 66. In his massive 40-year career, he collaborated with several major singers, including George Dalaras, Vassilis Papakonstantinou, Haroula Alexiou, Christina Maragozi, Manolis Lidakis...

Rosa Imvrioti… A monumental chapter—one of the most remarkable—in the history of education in Greece. An educator who transformed teaching methods and a pioneer in special education, she founded the first school for children with intellectual disabilities in 1937. But her mission was not confined to th...

Throughout the week that starts today, here at GME, we will be exploring the theme of streets and roads and other urban paths in Greek music. Today, we start with a tribute to the streets of Athens. Why? Well, because I somehow miss urban songs, i.e. songs that contain references to urban themes and...

One of the foremost figures of the Modern Greek Enlightenment… The great Cephalonian prose writer and satirical poet, Andreas Laskaratos, unfolds before us his turbulent life and his rich body of work. A lawyer never accepted by the establishment, almost a doctor, yet ultimately a rare kind of t...

Undoubtedly, Stelios Kazantzidis and Sotiria Bellou became famous thanks to their contribution to folk, popular song. However, it is interesting to note that art-song composers also entrusted them with their creations; from Mikis Theodorakis to Elias Andriopoulos and from Manos Hadjidakis to Dionysis...

It is the Friday edition of the program “Time in Greece”,  Back in the Day… takes us 50 years or half a century into the past. We leaf through “Eleftherotypia” newspaper. And back then, too, it was a Friday. We read the news of the time and discover… The Palestinian issue, already at an impass...

Stelios used to say: “My homeland has been tyrannizing me, torturing me since I was a three-month-old baby. It is one of the reasons why I sing with pain, because I sing for myself first and then for the world”. Sotiria had her own fair share of persecution and hardship, starting with the abuse tha...

From Alexandria to Marseille, then to Athens, from serving as a wartime radio operator to stepping onto the stage and the big screen to deliver unforgettable laughter—Dinos Iliopoulos is one of the great figures of Greek cinema and theatre. “Time in Greece" presents his story, his body of work, and...