On the Friday edition of the program, August 29, 2025, we began our interviews with Nikoleta Tsitsanoudi-Mallidi, Professor of Linguistics and Greek Language, Dean of the School of Education at the University of Ioannina, and founder and scientific director of the International Summer University “Greek Language, Culture, and Media.” We had a reflective discussion about the Small Summer University held in Gjirokastër, Albania, which focused on Language in the Age of Artificial Intelligence.
Following the headlines, we welcomed Giorgos Kapopoulos, journalist and analyst, with whom we discussed the latest developments in Greek-Turkish relations and the war fronts in Ukraine and the Middle East.
Later, via telephone, we spoke with Giorgos Hotzoglou, President of the Panhellenic Federation of Workers in Food and Tourism Workers, who provided an update on how the Greek summer has unfolded so far, especially regarding labor relations, wages, and the enforcement – or violation – of collective agreements that were signed.
In the second hour of the program, after Ivana Djordjevic’s international news segment, we welcomed Monika Kabasele to the studio of the Voice of Greece. The Greek jazz singer, with paternal roots in the Congo, who thrives in Europe and is based in Paris, spoke to us about her life, her influences, her decision to settle in Paris, her collaborations, and her love for Greek music—including traditional songs, old folk tunes, and rebetiko. She revealed her upcoming projects and performed live in the studio one of the new songs she plans to include on her next album.
We also discussed her live performances across Europe, in Athens, and in – Alexandroupoli– the city where she grew up – her love for the Greek language, poetry, and literature (she studied Philology like her mother), and she gave us a date for a concert in Soufli alongside Panagiotis Gkinis from Thrax Punks on Sunday, August 31, before returning to France.