Podcasts

Istorima is the biggest project for recording and preserving oral histories of Greece. More than 1,000 young researchers find narrators listen, collect and preserve stories of people from all over Greece: Stories of their hometowns, stories of love, stories that changed Greece or defined it, modern or old stories. Stories that are not recorded in the history books and that could easily be lost in time. It was created by the journalist Sofia Papaioannou and the historian Katherine Fleming and is implemented with a founding grant from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF), as part of its initiative to Restart and ... Read more

The Poet of the Week 15-21 July 2024 on Voice of Greece is Lena Kallergi.Lena Kallergi is a poet, linguist and translator who lives and works in Athens, Greece. She has published three poetry books: Ανήμερο/Untamed (Ikaros, 2023), Κήποι στην άμμο/Gardens on sand (Gavrielides, 2010, -“Maria Polydouri”...

Standalone ‘’radio films’’ with a unique audio script each time, attempting to answer the question posed by the show’s title. The show covers a wide variety of topics including literature, cinema, music, current affairs, and special tributes.

At the age of fourteen, Vasilis Pisimisis is working various jobs in the commercial area of Piraeus; he knows little about the infamous Troumpa area. He begins to explore it systematically, collecting the fascinating stories of the women and men frequenting this legendary red-light neighbourhood and...

Istorima is the biggest project for recording and preserving oral histories of Greece. More than 1,000 young researchers find narrators listen, collect and preserve stories of people from all over Greece: Stories of their hometowns, stories of love, stories that changed Greece or defined it, modern or old stories. Stories that are not recorded in the history books and that could easily be lost in time. It was created by the journalist Sofia Papaioannou and the historian Katherine Fleming and is implemented with a founding grant from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF), as part of its initiative to Restart and ... Read more

Twenty Minutes with Ariadni: ‘Zeibekiko’ (or ‘the Greek sacred dance’)

Series: The Occupation through the Eyes of Its Children On the other side of the swamp, Sophia, Eleni, and Roxani—three girls of different ages—live in three different villages amphitheatrically surrounding Edessa. Growing up in places besieged by continuous and varied hostilities, each of them is ...

Kokkinia was a vast refugee and working-class town, filled with numerous shacks and surrounded by factories and artisan textile workshops. The new radio documentary of the HISTORIAS MINIMAS series, in collaboration with RADIO PANIK of Belgium, refers to the refugee settlement in the Kokkinia area...

Series: The Occupation through the Eyes of Its Children On the other side of the swamp, Sophia, Eleni, and Roxani—three girls of different ages—live in three different villages amphitheatrically surrounding Edessa. Growing up in places besieged by continuous and varied hostilities, each of them is ...

Series: The Occupation through the Eyes of Its Children On the other side of the swamp, Sophia, Eleni, and Roxani—three girls of different ages—live in three different villages amphitheatrically surrounding Edessa. Growing up in places besieged by continuous and varied hostilities, each of them is ...