Tributes

“Our Town” with Themis Rodamitis presents a special tribute titled “Echoes of Manos Hadjidakis.”  The broadcast revisits landmark texts, songs and musical moments—distinct highlights from the rich and singular journey of a beloved and unforgettable composer who spoke to us with the mos...

Today, we turn to a major recent loss for Greek song—to a leading songwriter—and to a less illuminated facet of his discography. With Thanasis Papakonstantinou, as well as Vangelis Germanos, with Giorgos Zampetas, with Nikos Xydakis, and with Nikos Kypergos. The meeting point for tonight’s journ...

with Nikol Liakostavrou “The pre-appointed hero is the future tyrant…” An interview with Manos Hadjidakis for Tachydromos magazine, published on October 19, 1973 — one month before the Polytechnic uprising. Happy listening!

From Sotiria Bellou to Mario and from Tzeni Vanou to Giannis Kalantzis, countless folk vocalists have sang about komboloi, this tool of relaxation that has acquired multiple symbolisms in the context of Greek song. Komboloi is a symbol of friendship but also of abandonment when its holder plays with...

We turn the clocks back and read together the press of the time, as we do every Friday in the “Back then” segment of the program “Time in Greece”. Today we leaf through Aigyptos (Tachydromos) of the Greek community of Alexandria. And we learn about… • The liberation struggle of Cyprus – As if not...

Today, we begin a 2-day mini tribute to a typically Greek object that has inspired numerous Greek songs. Worry beads (or “komboloi”) are a string of beads manipulated with one or two hands and, apart from entertaining and relaxing multiple generations of Greeks, they have inspired numerous folk son...

The cities of Greek song – foreign and desolate, lonely or for two, with love or with darkness. The cities of Polyxeni Karakoglou and Katerina Kyrmizi, of Victoria Tagouli and Rita Antonopoulou and Elli Paspala, of Kostas Thomaidis and Kostas Mantzios. “In this city, you left me alone / and I am a t...

Today, we will be stopping at the crossroads of two arts, music and cinema, through selections from Hadjidakis' soundtracks for films such as Blue, Topkapi, America America, Sweet movie and Faccia di spia. This GME broadcast was supposed to be part of our week-long tribute to the 100th anniversary of...

It’s the program“ “Listen & See, Look & Hear” that surprises you with its topics every Tuesday. Today, Nikolas Angelidis and Grigoris Nanis discuss... • The couple that loved and hated each other so much… that they got married 12 times! What’s going on there? • The pride of Dimini, Jason...

Today, we are celebrating “Polytechneio”, i.e. the uprising of the Athens Polytechnic School on November 14-17, 1973, which marked the struggle against the Greek dictatorship of 1967-74. Our track list includes songs with direct references to the events, as well as others that focus on the themes of ...

Tonight, we welcome a day that symbolises the enduring struggle for democracy—for bread, education, and freedom. A day inseparably linked to the uprising at the National Technical University of Athens and its lasting imprint on collective memory and political expression. The meeting point for tonight’s jou...

Today, we remember an important composer and thinker who passed away recently and whose absence is deeply felt. A composer with substantial studies and a remarkable body of work, Michalis Grigoriou created dozens of compositions, including works for orchestra; for choir and soloists; chamber music;...

Today, here at GME, we are celebrating lyricist Lefteris Papadopoulos’ 90 years of life, creativity and endless contribution to Greek song. And we are doing that by highlighting his more erotic side, a side replete with powerful images of love, loss and devotion. A moon kissing with the stars, an e...

We lay out the newspapers of the era before us… and turn the calendar back to 1983.We flip through the sports weekly “BALLA”, which hit the newsstands every Tuesday and revisit stories such as: The “diplomatic incident” between Greece and England, triggered by Denmark… Thomas Mavros preparing f...

There are many things that one can say about lyricist, writer and film director Alekos Sakellarios, and we will indeed be saying many things about him and his contribution aboard today’s GME. But for me, Sakellarios is, above all, the one who wrote the lyrics of my favourite song: “In life there are...

This week, we have been celebrating five important poets and lyricists who have left a notable mark on Greek song and today we turn to my number one, the poet whom I consider the greatest not only in Greece but globally, a true master situated at the crossroads of political vision and existential despair....

This week, we have been celebrating five important poets and lyricists who have left a notable mark on Greek song and today we turn to my number one, the poet whom I consider the greatest not only in Greece but globally, a true master situated at the crossroads of political vision and existential despair....

It’s “Listen & See, Look & Hear”, VoG's Tuesday special broadcast with Nikolas Angelidis and Grigoris Nanis — a whirlwind of the bizarre, the funny, and the utterly unbelievable. In this episode, listeners discovered that: – NASA lost 135 million dollars due to one employee’s mistake– Ju...