A program dedicated to Greek folk music and the enduring relevance of rebetiko, featuring tributes to legendary rebetiko and folk singers, rare recordings and presentations of new album releases.
Produced and presented by Elena Falirea
“Our Town” presents “Songs about Thessaloniki“, marking the anniversary of the city’s liberation and the feast day of its patron saint, Saint Demetrios.
Thessaloniki native Thanasis Gioglou, a researcher, columnist and radio producer who has made a substantial contribution to Greek music, joins The...
Why Yesterday Feels Warmer Than Today?
What if the past we long for never really existed?
Why does an old song transport us to a forgotten summer? Why do childhood memories seem brighter with time? And why, when the present feels uncertain, do we convince ourselves that life was better yesterday?
On...
Narratives – Stories and Fairy Tales for Children and Adults” pays tribute to Oscar Wilde, the Irish storyteller, poet, and playwright and one of the great figures of world literature, through two much-loved stories from his collection “The Happy Prince and Other Tales,” translated and read around ...
The program welcomed Vasilis Oikonomidis, a LiFO contributor with many years of experience working in fine-dining restaurants. The conversation focused on the announcement of this year’s Michelin stars for restaurants in Athens, Santorini, and Thessaloniki.
In the second hour, chef Kalliopi Bezante j...
They are the Greek rowing crew at the top of the world and Europe.
With gold medals at both the World and European Under-23 Rowing Championships, they also have a World Championship bronze from Lithuania to their names.
Andreas Bourkas and Alexandros Chatziavgoustidis shared their journey with...
A program dedicated to Greek folk music and the enduring relevance of rebetiko, featuring tributes to legendary rebetiko and folk singers, rare recordings and presentations of new album releases.
Produced and presented by Elena Falirea
Can an island that has remained divided for more than half a century find its way toward reunification? Who and what stand in the way of a settlement of the Cyprus issue? And how much hope can emerge from the communities themselves when politics seems to have reached an impasse?
Marking the anniversary...
“Our Town” welcomes civil engineer, transport planner and environmental specialist Stavros Konstantinidis.
Drawing on his extensive experience and substantial research and planning work, he joins Themis Rodamitis to share ideas and proposals for a city that works better for its residents, is mor...
From the slopes of the Pindus Mountains, where remote passes and mountain villages offered refuge during the Occupation, to the people who still tend their land, raise their children and fight for the conditions that will allow them to remain in their communities.
To mark 28 October, Greece’s Ohi D...
PAGE 6FROM 1496