Today, we are exploring the contribution of Fotis Polymeris to the development of light song – the dominant style of music in Greece in the 1930s and 1940s. Polymeris, who passed away in 2013 at the age of 93, was one of the leading vocalists of his time and an equally talented songwriter who gave u...
A unique historical journey to 1924. The date reads January 21st when the shocking news is broadcasted... Lenin has died. How did the Greek press of the time present this news? What did the newspapers, with sympathy it seems, write about the leader of the October Revolution? Alongside, with the help...
Ένα αφιέρωμα στην μεγάλη Ελληνίδα ποιήτρια μας, ετοίμασε η εκπομπή "Φωνές και μουσικές" με τον Αλέξη Κώστα.
Κική Δημουλά. 86 έτη ζωής, 67 χρόνια ενεργής πορείας στον κόσμο της ποίησης και δεκάδες αποφθέγματα ζωής, έρωτα και προδοσίας που μοιράστηκε με το κοινό της, κατάφεραν να την κα...
Orfeas Peridis has been described as one of the most important singers-songwriters of his generation, although he prefers the word “troubadour”. As for Costas Makedonas, for more than 30 years he has stood out as one of the most expressive and uplifting modern male voices in art-folk. Today, here at ...
Nikolas Angelidis and the show Time in Greece host singer and author Katerina Tsiridou and musician and producer Nikos Protopappas in the studio of Voice of Greece. Our conversation revolves around the legendary Marika Ninou, who continues to transport our souls to bygone eras… The occasion for our m...
Who really was Nikos Gounaris and what enabled him to be accepted by everyone? What is it that launched and maintained his legend well beyond the confines of his genre, light song? The famous rebetiko musician Yiannis Papaioannou writes in his autobiography: “Of those so-called ‘Europeans’, only one i...
Kostas Hatzidoulis was a researcher, producer, writer and lyricist. A deep connoisseur and lover of folk and rebetiko, he dedicated his entire life to research and the production of records and books. Hatzidoulis curated dozens of compilations of old folk and rebetiko songs, as well as many record productions,...
A tribute to the struggle and actions of the militant women at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century… The Suffragettes, initially called derogatorily… evolved into a dynamic global movement with significant achievements.
Nikolas Angelidis and the show TIME IN GREECE pre...
Marianina Kriezi: Precious Documents from the ERT Archive
"For me, television is power. Radio is companionship. Television, even though it provides an image, offers a life different from reality.Television can drive me crazy. I feel its power inside my home…" (Marianina Kriezi).
Enjoy listeni...
This week, here at GME, we have been celebrating the outstanding work of Yorgos Kazantzis, a talented composer who has played a key role in boosting art song, the dominant genre of Greek music in the last half a century. Today, we will be exploring the song collections that he released in the 21st century...
One of the most infamous Mafia massacres in history…
Valentine’s Day 1929 was stained red with the blood of seven murdered gangsters, all members of the notorious George "Bugs" Moran gang.
Associates of Al Capone, disguised as police officers, ambushed and coldly executed Moran’s men in a bru...
Yorgos Kazantzis, one of the most important Greek composers, was born and raised in Thessaloniki, in the Kalamaria area. He has had numerous collaborations with prominent singers such as Dimitris Zervoudakis, Melina Kana and Pantelis Theoharidis, and has offered us some of the greatest art song collections...
As part of the celebration of World Radio Day, the show "Take Your Time" featured a tribute to radio theater. The program played excerpts from three historical radio plays recorded at the studios of Public Radio:
The Lady of the House by Tsiforos and Vassileiadis, directed by Thanasis Papageorgiou,...
Fair Winds and Following Seas and Voice of Greece celebrate World Radio Day with a special broadcast dedicated to radio, the people who serve it, and its devoted listeners.
In this episode, we engage in conversations with radio professionals about the unique magic of this medium.
Guests include...
The first period of Giorgos Kazantzis’ creative work strongly bears the characteristics of a musician seeking for his personal identity in the classical form, mainly, but also having basic influences from the modern Western world, rock and jazz music. His musical education, moreover, including theory, c...
The real Robinson Crusoe was named Alexander Selkirk, and he lived as a castaway on an uninhabited island in the Caribbean for four years. His story was written in a book published in 1712. It later served as the inspiration for Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe, published seven years later.
But who w...
Orestes, the son of Agamemnon, the general-in-chief of the Greeks in the Trojan war, avenges his father’s murder by his mother, Clytemnestra, and Aegisthus. This was his duty as expressed by his sister Electra and the oracle of Delphi. So, he returns to Mycenae from his hideaway and slays both of t...
This week, here at GME, we decided to commit all of our broadcasts to presenting the universe of a magnificent creator with a solid grip of melody and tons of sensitivity: Giorgos Kazantzis. The formal occasion is his 70th birthday tomorrow, on February 11. Kazantzis has been active in different fields...
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