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...
French poet Arthur Rimbaud, who passed away on this day, November 10, 1891, is considered a leading figure of world poetry. Literary critics have pointed to his pioneering role in promoting a variety of aesthetic currents, including symbolism and surrealism. Naturally, Rimbaud has been present in this...
The moving story of the doctor of the poor. Evdokia Papasotiriou, from the idyllic village of Planitero in Achaia, was the first woman to graduate from the Medical School. A fighter of the National Resistance and a doctor who gave selflessly, she would walk five hours to the surrounding villages to...
From Red Blues with Dimitris Mitropanos to White Blues with Kostas Karalis; from Blues of the World with Lena Moutsatsou to Flying Blues with Christina Vossou; from Blues on the Turntable with Haris Tsanaklidou to Blues on the Road with Giannis Thivaios…
Today, we take a first, exploratory dive i...
This episode of the Voice of Greece radio program “Journeys Basking in Greek Light”, presented by Giannis Papoutsakis, was dedicated to the poet of Romiosyni, Yiannis Ritsos, on Sunday, 09 November 2025, marking 35 years since his journey into eternity on 11 November. The episode celebrated his poe...
On Sunday, 09 November 2025, Voice of Greece presented the second part of the tribute by the program “Our Town” to Dionysis Savvopoulos, focusing on the second creative phase of the great artist – from “Tραπεζάκια έξω” (Tables Outside) to “O Chronopoios” (The Time Maker).
Taking part in the broadcast are acto...
Renowned author and translator Vasia Tzanakari joins Voice of Greece and shares with us some of the most… rock excerpts from her books! The World Is Born, Adelfikon, Mr Hector’s Chair, Eleven Small Murders: Stories Inspired by Songs by Nick Cave—Tzanakari reads passages from the short stories, novel...
On 1 November 1920 — in the wake of the Treaty of Sèvres and the grand vision of a “Greece of the Two Continents and the Five Seas” — Eleftherios Venizelos suffered a stunning electoral defeat. Taking this unexpected turning point as a starting point, “Historical Walks”&nbs...
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