The topic of the show “Journeys basking in Greek light” with Giannis Papoutsakis on August 14, was ” the Virgin Mary in poetry and song”
Two hours filled with poems and songs about the Virgin Mary, our Holy Mother, who has been praised by many great Greek poets: Yiannis Ritsos, Odysseas Elytis, Nikiforos Vrettakos, Giorgos Seferis, Kostas Varnalis, Tasos Livaditis, C. P. Cavafy, Angelos Sikelianos, I.M. Panagiotopoulos, Zoi Karelli, Lampros Porfyras, Georgios Drosinis, Nikos Gatsos and Nikos Kazantzakis. Mikis Theodorakis, Stavros Xarchakos, Manos Hadjidakis, Manos Loizos, Linos Kokotos, Apostolos Kaldaras, Giannis Spanos, Theodoros Derveniotis, Michalis Terzis, Lucas Thanos, Dimos Moutsis, Giorgos Katsaros, Ilias Andriopoulos and many others wrote songs about the Virgin Mary. Many more have sung about her, Stelios Kazantzidis, Grigoris Bithikotsis, Vicky Moscholiou, George Dalaras, Manolis Mitsias, Maria Dimitriadi, Afroditi Manou, Nikos Xylouris, Giannis Poulopoulos, Flery Dadonaki, Michalis Violaris, Glykeria, Takis Konstantakopoulos, Mariza Koch, Voula Palla, Domna Samiou, etc.