Tributes

51 years later, the Polytechnic Uprising against oppression feels as relevant as ever… Nikolas Angelidis and the "Time in Greece" walk… step by step, through the events that unfolded back then. With the youth, students, and the people rising up against the brutal policies of the dictators… The full ...

"Journeys Basking in Greek Light" with Giannis Papoutsakis on November 14 honored Lefteris Papadopoulos, the great lyricist and creator of hundreds of hits, on the occasion of his 89th birthday, celebrating his words and songs.

Music analyst Giorgos Charonitis notes the following about the album “The Blues of the Prince” by rock legend Pavlos Sidiropoulos: “It's not just a recording documentary. It is about much more: a voice heard underground, a sound desperately trying to keep its secret, an allegory of images that can o...

An impressive exhibition showcasing rare works by Vasso Katraki has opened at the Arts Center. Drawings, woodcuts, and her famous exile pebbles from Gyaros make up this unique exhibition, which will run until November 22. In "Time in Greece" with Nikolas Angelidis, her son Spyros Katrakis, who curated...

Singer-songwriter Nikolas Asimos wrote: “We are looking for people, not for ideologies. We are looking for people who have courage, love, kindness. People who are not liars, shallow and comfortable, and know how to give, not how to cheat and take advantage of those around them. People who are at least w...

Nikolas Angelidis takes listeners on a fascinating journey back to the roots of Greek football history. The show transports us to Switzerland at the turn of the 20th century, where the first Greek footballers made their mark abroad from 1897 to 1900. Among them were the Vryonis brothers, whose path...

"Voice of Greece" paid tribute to the renowned poet and lyricist Michalis Ganas, who has passed away. Alexis Kostas, on the show "Voices and Music," curated a tribute to the work of the great poet, featuring beloved songs by major composers who set his lyrics to music.

The first source of today’s track list is an album titled ‘Up and Down Patision Street’, containing 20 of Katerina Gogou’s poems set to music. The songs are composed and performed by, among others, Panos Katsimihas, Martha Fritzila, Vaso Alagianni, Lolek, Eva Loukatou, Rita Antonopoulou, Pantelis Theocha...

A tribute to Michalis Ganas, who passed away on this day, with a broadcast that originally aired in April 2023. The two-hour special was curated by Themis Rodamitis on the show Our Town, featuring the participation of Michalis Ganas himself. In the program, prominent figures from the literary world,...

The humorous, non-news show "Listen & See, Look & Hear" with Nikolas Angelidis and Grigoris Nanis… brings you today’s quirky stories that you won’t see or hear anywhere else… Find out about: The world’s most expensive coin. What is it, and how much is it worth? The snow-made ice cream...

Dimitris Poulikakos is a Greek singer, composer, actor, radio producer, writer, and translator of surrealist poetry and literature. He was born in Athens in January 1943 in a relatively wealthy bourgeois family. Dimitris Poulikakos participated in the publication of the landmark Pali magazine together...

Yannis Ritsos explains to us what poetry is, reads from Epitaph, speaks of his Romiosyni, of struggles, persecution, and ideologies that never die and remain as relevant as ever, of exiles, torture, peace… And he lets us dream through his Moonlight Sonata and The Lady of the Vineyards… A humble tri...

The show "Journeys Basking in Greek Light" with Giannis Papoutsakis, aired on November 10, was dedicated to the poet of Romiosyni, Yiannis Ritsos. His poetry, set to music by Mikis Theodorakis, Christos Leontis, and Marios Tokas, featured the voices of Grigoris Bithikotsis, Nikos Xylouris, Mary Linda,...

A very special artistic phenomenon was at the heart of this week’s GME broadcasts. We are referring to a wave of covers of Italian, Spanish, French, British, Dutch and other international hits that flooded the Greek recording landscape towards the end of the 1970s, until the mid-1980s. Some of the g...

We turn the calendars back a century and a year... On November 8, 1923, Adolf Hitler launched his first coup attempt. With a group of far-right National Socialists, they tried to seize a beer hall in Munich and overthrow the country’s government! The dramatic events that followed, with local leaders s...

In the Greek discography, the arrangements of foreign songs with Greek lyrics have been a brilliant success story, especially in the second half of the ’70s, when there was a need for expression beyond the established folk, political, Hatzidakis and Theodorakis songs that were very popular at the t...

On this day, November 7, 2016, the incomparable singer, songwriter, poet and novelist Leonard Cohen left this world. With his charismatic voice and unmatched lyrics, the Canadian-born musician and literary figure created a legacy all his own, distinguished by a unique tone, life’s passions, and profound d...