Tributes

Today,  we shall be listening to a very powerful live recording of a concert of Dionysis Savvopoulos titled Savvorama. Savvopoulos, one of the few "revolutionaries" of the Greek music scene, gave a series of concerts in December 2000 at the Athens Concert Hall. Savvorama is a panorama of Savvopoulos ...

_ Η πόλη μας το βράδυ του Σαββάτου αλλάζει όψηΤρελαίνει και τρελαίνεται σε κάθε εποχή _ _tracklist The Isley Brothers – Ohio/Machine Gun David Bowie – Amsterdam Warren Zevon – Werewolves of London Natalie Merchant – Portofino Foxygen – San Francisco Gilbert Bécaud – Nathalie Mansfield TYA – Petite Italie They Might Be Giants – Istanbul (Not Constantinople) Τάνια Τσανακλίδου – Tarantela Devendra Banhart – Santa Maria de Feira Ryan Adams – New York, New York Rykarda Parasol – Texas Midnight Radio Σπύρος Σακκάς- Αχ Παπουαλίλη Lilipoupoli Orchestra – Tώρα που πας κι εσύ στη Λιλιπούπολη

Lena Pappa’s songs have been set to music by the Katsimihas brothers and Yiannis Nikolaou, among others. Pappa notes: “This is something that I consider important because composing music has an educational effect on the general public, through the marriage of two sensibilities, poetry and music”. As fo...

The show TIME IN GREECE and Nikolas Angelidis present a special journey through history... We walk in neighborhoods of other times, difficult... in clubs that made history, with stories and adventures... and starring all the legendary aces... of rebetiko and the old genuine folk song... We take a walk...

Nikiforos Vrettakos was a Greek poet whose literary career spanned nearly sixty years, along which he published several collections of poetry, prose works, and a long series of articles and literary essays. David Connolly, who has translated several of Vrettakos’ works, writes that his poems are “firmly roo...

The show TIME IN GREECE and Nikolas Angelidis present a special journey through history... We walk in neighborhoods of other times, difficult... in clubs that made history, with stories and adventures... and starring all the legendary aces... of rebetiko and the old genuine folk song... We take a walk...

Napoleon Lapathiotis is one of the cursed figures of Greek literature, considered an important poet of the neo-symbolist and neo-romantic schools. In his early poems he is influenced by aestheticism and sensualism, while in his last poems he ends up in desperate and melancholic tones, dominated by the...

Η ΩΡΑ ΕΛΛΑΔΑΣ ταξιδεύει νοερά στη Σάμο, στο όμορφο Καρλόβασι. Συναντάμε τον καραβομαραγκό Αντρέα Καραμαρούδη, ένα μάστορα ξεχωριστό που κρατάει μια μοναδική τέχνη στα χέρια του, όπως ακριβώς την έμαθε από τον παππού του και τον πατέρα και όπως τη δίδαξε στο γιό του. Σήμερα με πολλές δυσκολίες και ...

Karyotakis influenced many of the poets who came after him and created a literary fashion, Karyotacism, which flooded modern Greek poetry. Going against the sentimentality of his era, Karyotakis conveys a sense of the futile. He writes sarcastic poems about the inglorious and the insignificant as a...

Η ανατρεπτική εκπομπή της Τρίτης με τον Νικόλα Αγγελίδη και τον Γρηγόρη Νάνη. Σήμερα θα μάθετε για... τη νύφη στον Πειραιά που πήγε με μεταφορικό μέσο που δεν φαντάζεστε... στην τελετή γάμου δυο διάσημους ποδοσφαιριστές που κυκλοφορούν πλέον σε παγωτό και γαριδάκια την επένδυση δυο γνωστών ποδοσφαιριστ...

Kostas Karyotakis was born in 1896 and died in 1928, committing suicide at the age of just 32. He is considered one of the most representative Greek poets of the 1920s, with his poetry adding a tragic dimension to the neo-Symbolist and neo-Romantic poetry of his time. Today, we are listrening poetry...

Σας παρουσιάζουμε το μέρος... όπου λατρεύεται (αναλογικά...) η θρυλική Vespa, περισσότερο απ' οπουδήποτε αλλού στην Ελλάδα. Είναι η Λέρος, νησί με έντονες επιρροές από το πέρασμα των Ιταλών, σε αρχιτεκτονικό και όχι μόνο επίπεδο... Έτσι κι αλλιώς η Vespa είναι ένα αρχιτεκτονικό θαύμα! Γνωρίστε τον...

Dedicated to the important composer and lyricist Akis Panou was the show "Journeys Basking in Greek Light" by Giannis Papoutsakis on February 18th!His whole life and his songs with the voices of Kazantzidis, Moscholiou, Bithikotsis, Marinella, Gray, Voskopoulos, Lydia, Dionysiou, Andreatos, Lidakis,...

_ Η πόλη μας το βράδυ του Σαββάτου αλλάζει όψηΤρελαίνει και τρελαίνεται σε κάθε εποχή _ _tracklist The Isley Brothers – Ohio/Machine Gun David Bowie – Amsterdam Warren Zevon – Werewolves of London Natalie Merchant – Portofino Foxygen – San Francisco Gilbert Bécaud – Nathalie Mansfield TYA – Petite Italie They Might Be Giants – Istanbul (Not Constantinople) Τάνια Τσανακλίδου – Tarantela Devendra Banhart – Santa Maria de Feira Ryan Adams – New York, New York Rykarda Parasol – Texas Midnight Radio Σπύρος Σακκάς- Αχ Παπουαλίλη Lilipoupoli Orchestra – Tώρα που πας κι εσύ στη Λιλιπούπολη

Today, our track list includes songs about seagulls – these lovely seabirds that have inspired several Greek music artists. Primarily, seagulls symbolise freedom, flight, departure, adventure, unconventional behaviour. Gulls are resourceful, inquisitive and intelligent, demonstrating complex methods o...

Αφιέρωμα σε μια από τις πιο μαύρες σελίδες της παγκόσμιας ιστορίας... Τη σφαγή 300 αμάχων Ινδιάνων, κυρίως γυναικόπαιδων, στο Wounded Knee της Νότιας Ντακότα, στις 29 Δεκεμβρίου 1890. Ο Νικόλας Αγγελίδης γυρίζει πίσω τις σελίδες της ιστορίας και δίνει λεπτομέρειες για το πως οδηγηθήκαμε στο μακελειό. Ο "χ...

From antiquity and the Greek mythology, horses were associated with military might and prestige. However, in Greek music horses also become symbols of speed and dynamism, while also being humans’ faithful friends.  From the Red Horse of Dynameis tou Aigaiou band to the Twelve Horses of Costas Tournas, he...

Greece is a dog-friendly country and Greek song has been dog-friendly too! From Foivos Delivorias’ Dog in Kolonaki neighborhood to Stathis Drogosis’ Kanellos, there is a massive list of songs where dogs are the protagonists. And by the way, did you know that Ancient Greeks gave to the world not onl...