“Our Town” presents a tribute to the “Greek summer.”
The show explores the uniqueness of the Greek summer, how it is experienced over time, and the elements that make it a natural, enjoyable, and distinctive “universe.”The summer as experienced by foreign travelers, philhellenes, notable personalities...
A beautiful and unique tribute to the feast of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, celebrated every year with great reverence both in Greece and among the Greek diaspora, is presented by the program “Narratives – Stories and Fairy Tales for All Ages” on Voice of Greece.
In the secon...
From the meatballs of Sakis Boulas to the little red mullet of Vangelis Germanos and from the avgolemono of Margarita Zorbala to the …fried dreams of Arleta, the Greek cuisine has been a source of funny or satirical songs. Also, several children’s songs have been inspired by food and cooks, including two...
We turn the calendars back. 58 years ago. Back in the Day… Monday, 22 August 1967. In front of us lies a newspaper of that day. It’s the sports weekly OMADA, filled with rich coverage of all the teams and every sport…
So today we learn:
About Olympiacos’ trip to Canada and their matches played ...
Bread is a baked food product made from water, flour, and often yeast. Throughout recorded history and around the world, it has been an important part of many cultures' diets. And it has also been an important part of Greek song, as bread appears regularly as a symbol of welfare and justice, signalling...
General Strike of 1923: On this day, 102 years ago, took place the strike that went down in history and opened the road for new struggles and demands…
1923: After the uprooting and exile of the Greeks of Asia Minor, the working classes endured absolute misery in their labor conditions.
The working c...
Why did they set rice on fire in Vietnam, as Savvopoulos sings? Mikroutsikos asks: Do merchants even know what rice is, or do they only care about its price? Tzimis Panousis is trying to figure out whether tzatziki and souvlaki is Greece’s actual contribution to Europe. And Ypogeia Revmata band warn: T...
How many know the details about the Greek seafarers who sailed with Magellan and Columbus on the first explorations of the world?
The program “Time in Greece” with Nikolas Angelidis sheds light on the history of all the sailors of Greek origin who took part in those early voyages — seafarers from ...
Fish and fishermen – these are the themes of the songs that we are listening to today here at GME. Giorgos Mouflouzelis goes fishing, Vaggelis Korakakis tells the story of some prodigal fishermen, and Opisthodromiki Kompania sings an anthem for a fishing boat named Saint Nicholas. As for Babis Goles a...
It was on this very day, 19 August 1960, that Belka and Strelka, two mixed-breed stray dogs, traveled into space. The two Soviet strays remained in orbit for a full 24 hours, completing 17 revolutions around the Earth.
Today, the program “Time in Greece” with Nikolas Angelidis tells the story of ...
Mikis Theodorakis and Dimitris Lagios. The two composers were friends, lived in the same neighborhood “in the shadow of the Acropolis,” and shared common musical and aesthetic tastes. Between them there was esteem, love, admiration, and companionship.
Both cherished poets, setting their verses to ...
Throughout the week that starts today, here at GME, we shall be celebrating the Greek cuisine and, of course, the songs that contain references to it, to food and to its social significance. Today, Sakis Rouvas is cooking spaghetti, Arleta is dancing a “tsifteteli” with vinegar, Thanasis Gaifyllias rem...
The historic character who bridged generations and entire cultures. From India to Turkey, and from there to Greece in the early 1800s!
The program “Time in Greece” with Nikolas Angelidis takes us back to Nafplio in 1841, where Karagiozis made his first recorded appearance.
Together, we learn abo...
** Vicky Moscholiou was, always, a conservative person in ideas and views - yet at the same time free.
She was never ashamed to speak about what she believed, about what had marked her life, about her devotion to the motto ‘fatherland, religion, family’ - to put it somewhat provocatively - without thi...
A beautiful and unique tribute to the feast of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, celebrated every year with great reverence both in Greece and among the Greek diaspora, is presented by the program “Narratives – Stories and Fairy Tales for All Ages” on Voice of Greece.
On Saturday, 16 Au...
The Dormition of the Virgin Mary, on August 15, is a major religious holiday. It is also a name day for several names including Maria, Mary, Panagiota and Despina. Here, at GME, we shall be celebrating together with all these people, listening to songs that refer to their names. Maria who was laughing,...
Konstantinos Kyriakou, a former political prisoner in Albania (during the regimes of Hoxha, Alia, and Berisha), recalls Dormition Day in 1994, when in Tirana the “Trial of the Five of Omonia” began.
Andreas Morphitis, from Famagusta, remembers abandoning his beautiful hometown on Dormition Day in ...
The Earthbound is a Greek band formed in Athens in 1998 by six members and former members of The Last Drive, Honeydive, Rockin' Bones and Engine-V. The band is led by prominent rock figures Alexis Kalofolias and Thanos Amorginos. After playing locally for about a year, the Earthbound recorded its debut...
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