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Faraway Words

Natasa Vissarionos

The show covers top stories of the Greek Diaspora, featuring interviews with Greek expats or natives who choose to leave Greece behind to travel, study, or work abroad.

Stella Kokoli on Voice of Greece | 22 Oct. 2025
The President of the Federation of Hellenic American Educators, Ms. Stella Kokolis, spoke with Natasa Vissarionos about the “jewel” of Greek-language education, the St. Demetrios School in Astoria, as well as about the institution of charter schools, which are relatively unknown in Greece but, as she...
“Faraway Words” with Natasa Vissarionos | 22 Oct. 2025
-A small farewell to Dionysis Savvopoulos-The president of the Federation of Hellenic American Educators Mrs. Stella Kokolis talks about the diamond of Greek-language education the St. Demetrios School in Astoria about the charter schools which are relatively unknown in Greece about the problems of...
“Faraway Words” about the Greek International Women Awards | 21 Oct. 2025
Nana Tsoumaki, member of the Organizing Committee of the Greek International Women Awards (GIWA), visited the studio of Voice of Greece at 12:00, on the program “Faraway Words”, to talk about this international awards institution that honors Greek women who excel globally. The initiative aims to ...
Faraway Words with Christina Tsardikou from Argentina | 20 Oct. 2025
From Buenos Aires, Argentina, the president of the non-profit cultural organization “Nostos,” Dr. Christina Tsardikou, was a guest at the studio of Voice of Greece at ERT , invited by Natasa Vissarionos and Giorgos Keramidas. Dr. Christina Tsardikou is currently in Greece as president of the Ass...
“Faraway Words” on the exhibition “Greek Artists and the Shaping of American Art in the 20th Century” | 15 Oct. 2025
The program featured museologist and cultural diplomacy researcher Georgia Manolopoulou, who spoke about the Hellenic Diaspora Foundation, based in Patras and dedicated to documenting and promoting the work and legacy of Greek visual artists abroad. As she noted, the Foundation already holds around...
“Faraway Words” travel to China | 13 Oct. 2025
Performer Betty Harlafti is soon travelling to China, invited to sing at the opening ceremony of the Qintai Music Festival in Wuhan, an annual autumn event that hosts internationally acclaimed artists and leading symphony orchestras from around the world. Harlafti will perform works by Mikis Theodorakis,...
Vrasidas Karalis on the project “Our People, Their Stories” | 08 Oct. 2025
Vrasidas Karalis, Professor of Modern Greek Studies at the University of Sydney, author, and translator, with a distinguished contribution to the promotion of Greek culture in Australia, spoke on Voice of Greece about the project “Our People, Their Stories.”
“Faraway Words” about rebetiko… in London | 07 Oct. 2025
The program hosted Georgia Karantona, PhD candidate in Children’s and Adolescent Literature at the University of Thessaly, educator at Greek community schools in London, and Director of the Greek Children’s Library of London. The discussion was inspired by a special tribute to rebetiko music, cur...
“On the Wings of History”: Soula Bozi brings to light testimonies of uprooting and memory | 06 Oct. 2025
The program "Faraway Words" featured researcher and author Soula Bozi, on the occasion of her book “On the Wings of History” (Topos Publications), which brings to light twenty testimonies of uprooting from Ionia, Thrace, and Constantinople. Through the voices of men and women who experienced the...
“Faraway Words” with Varvara Athanasiou-Ioannou and Chrysa Voulgaridou | 30 Sept. 2025
Chrysa Voulgaridou, President of the Hellenic Association of Women for Culture and Tourism (HAWCT) and Varvara Athanasiou-Ioannou, President and founder of the Food For Thought Network based in Melbourne were guests at the studio of Voice of Greece, on the program "Faraway Words" with Natasa Vissarionos....
“Faraway Words” with Nikos Graikos from Paris | 24 Sept. 2025
From Paris to Athens and into the studio of Voice of Greece came Nikos Graikos on Wednesday, September 24th, on the occasion of the release of his new book "Anastohasmos" (Reflection). Nikos Graikos is a graduate of the Department of French Studies at the University of Athens and holds a postgraduate...
Speaking Greek in Venice: Katerina Karpinato on Voice of Greece | 23 Sept. 2025
The program “Faraway Words” with Natasa Vissarionos featured Katerina Karpinato, Professor of Greek Language and Literature at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, who spoke about the upcoming event “Reading, Writing, and Speaking Greek in Venice.”
“Faraway Words” with Natasa Vissarionos | 23 Sept. 2025
The program hosted Caterina Carpinato, professor of Greek language and literature at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, who spoke about the event “Reading, Writing, and Speaking Greek in Venice”, which will take place at Campo dei Greci, Castello 3412, in the city of gondoliers, on Friday, September 26. ...
Zeti Fitsiou takes her “Mixer” to Frankfurt… | 22 Sept. 2025
After two successful seasons in Athens and across Greece, the pocket-size folk musical “Mixer” now travels to Frankfurt, where it will be staged for the local Greek community on Friday, 26 September. Award-winning writer Zeti Fitsiou spoke on the program “Faraway Words” about her play and her connection with Greeks living in Germany.
“Faraway Words” with Natasa Vissarionos | 22 Sept. 2025
The episode featured Oskar Lindroth and award-winning author Zeti Fitsiou. Oskar Lindroth, a member of the Swedish Church Choir as well as the Greek Choir Orpheus of Stockholm, spoke about his father’s connection with Mikis Theodorakis and about the Swedish Church Choir, on the occasion of the upcoming concert “Mikis Theodorakis: Sweden, a Second Homeland” to be held on Thursday, 2 October, at the Danish Institute. Award-winning author Zeti Fitsiou talked about her pocket-size folk musical “Mixer”, which, after a successful run in Athens and other cities in Greece, is now heading to Frankfurt on 26 September. She described it ... Read more
“Faraway Words” with Natasa Vissarionos | 17 Sept. 2025
The program hosted film producer Efi Skrombola and Nikolas Gavriilidis, president of the Parents’ Association of the Greek school in Oslo. Ms. Skrombola spoke about the film The Hen, shot entirely in Greece, a Greek–German co-production that had its world premiere at the Toronto International Fil...
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