The episode is dedicated to Maria Farantouri, the singer whom Mikis Theodorakis discovered in 1963 after hearing her perform one of his songs, immediately proposing that she become the voice of his work.
The programme’s first stop was Fthiotida, with a conversation with winemaker Dimitris Karadimos about the region’s evolving wine scene and the cultivation of Xinomavro.
Next, chef Giorgos Oikonomidis spoke to us about the safety standards and requirements of sustainable seafood consumption.
Finally, we ...
At the European Taekwondo Championship, Greece won a total of 13 medals in the Cadets and Juniors categories: 2 gold, 6 silver, and 5 bronze.
Offering her analysis of these remarkable achievements for Greek sports was the internationally distinguished athlete Elli Mystakidou.
The Greek champion’s c...
Today, we are celebrating the birthday of one of Greece’s greatest female voices. Maria Farantouri was born in Athens on the 28th of November 1947. Her international repertoire, which we are focusing on aboard today’s GME, is truly impressive and includes recordings of protest songs and songs by Bre...
Giorgos Rigas lives in Montreal, Canada, with family roots in a village in Messinia, near Kalamata. This year he is participating in the Symposium for the first time, following an invitation he received from the Greek Consulate in his city.
He speaks about the powerful experience of meeting young...
Apostolos Zezos is one of the young participants attending this year’s Symposium for the second consecutive time, an event organized by the General Secretariat for Greeks Abroad and Public Diplomacy. He is 21 years old and moved with his family to Canada—specifically to Toronto—at the age of just nine....
In the Friday edition of the program on 28 November 2025, we heard two more interviews with young members of the Greek Diaspora, recorded during their participation in the 2nd Greek Youth Diaspora Symposium, organized by the General Secretariat for Greeks Abroad and Public Diplomacy at the Hellenic...
The program “Take Your Time” with Prokopis Agelopoulos hosted director and author Ermis Peristeris and actress Lydia Giannousaki, on the occasion of the documentary theatre production «Άκου μικρέ, ο Πειραιάς βομβαρδίστηκε» (Listen, Kid — Piraeus Was Bombed), staged at the Piraeus Municipal Theatre throu...
As we do every Friday on the program "Time in Greece" with Nikolas Angelidis at the microphone, we dive into history, leafing through old newspapers.Today we’re looking at the historic sports daily “Omada”, as we travel back to 1961. And here’s what we discover…
Panathinaikos betting on fresh blo...
Anastasios Tamis, a distinguished diaspora researcher and Emeritus Professor of Greek Diaspora History, spoke about the history of the Greeks of Perth and the sparsely populated region of Western Australia more broadly—particularly the early Kastellorizian settlers and, later, the Macedonians.
He w...
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