On the Thursday, 12 November 2026 edition of the program, we connected with Australia to speak with Giorgos Pattakos, president of the “Kourites” Cultural Heritage Center. Together with three dance instructors and a colleague documenting the visit, he is touring Australia and New Zealand. The tour includes workshops on Cretan dances and traditional costumes for members of Greek community associations, alongside specialized training for dance instructors to help pass Cretan dance traditions on to future generations. The team is also recording the history of Greeks in Australia through podcasts, interviews, and audiovisual material featuring community members and earlier generations of immigrants.
After reviewing newspaper and online headlines, we spoke with lawyer and mediator Nana Papadogeorgaki about the more favorable conditions for borrowers seeking out-of-court debt settlements under the new regulatory framework passed by Parliament. She also commented on the withdrawal of Article 23, explaining that its provisions are already covered by the existing legislation governing out-of-court settlements. The first hour concluded with international news presented by Ivana Djordjevic.
In the second hour, we turned to the event “Moby Dick off our shores! Under threat or protected?”, taking place on Saturday, 14 November, as part of Athanasios Christodoulou’s exhibition “Στορίσματα στο Μόμπι Ντικ” at Lofos Art Project. Speakers at the event include Dr. Alexandros Frantzis of the Pelagos Cetacean Research Institute and Theodota Nantsou, Head of Environmental Policy at WWF Greece.
In the final part of the program, before the sports news with Dimitris Giachanatzis, actor Giorgis Kontopodis joined us in the Voice of Greece studio. For the fifth consecutive year, he portrays sculptor Giannoulis Chalepas at the Kallirois Theatre in “Κοιμώμενος Χαλεπάς, ο Σαλός Άγιος” (“Sleeping Chalepas, the Holy Fool”), written by Angelos Andreopoulos and directed by Alexandros Liakopoulos.