“Faraway Words” welcomed author Marilli Diamanti for a conversation about her historical narrative “Argonaut, in the Depths of the Earth.”
Drawing on extensive research into archives, immigrant lists, and forgotten documents, the book traces the life of her great-grandfather Panagis, who came fr...
The program welcomed Triantafyllos Kotopoulos, Professor of Creative Writing and Modern Greek Literature and Director and Academic Coordinator of the Master’s Program in Creative Writing. The occasion for the conversation was the 7th International Creative Writing Conference, which will take place i...
Teachers Anastasia Megalokonomou and Eleni Bakousi, along with students Maria-Eleni Koutoulaki and Panagiota Strompolakou, joined the program from Lubumbashi in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. They spoke about the Greek school and the event they organized there to mark the European Day of Languages,...
Kostas Papakostopoulos, director and artistic director of the Greek-German Theatre of Cologne, traveled from Cologne to join us in the Voice of Greece studio. The acclaimed director discussed his forthcoming production of Samuel Beckett’s landmark play “Krapp’s Last Tape,” which will be staged in Colo...
In the first part of the program, we welcomed Christos Michalakelis, president and co-founder of Study in Greece. He discussed the organization’s strategic contacts and partnerships in Korea, opening new avenues for Greek universities to expand their international reach and attract students from abroad.
In t...
Distinguished lyricist, poet and teacher Christos G. Papadopoulos was a guest in the Voice of Greece studio. He has lived in Cairo, Egypt, for the past 20 years. There, he taught as a teacher seconded from Greece and served for many years as president of the Greek Cultural Center of Cairo. He runs the...
Vasilis Angelopoulos, president of the Hellenic Community of Greater Montreal, joined the program by phone. He spoke about the community’s history as it marks 120 years since its founding, Greek-language education, and the challenges the organization faces today. The conversation followed a presentation b...
Journalist Chara Agridioti joined the program from Paris to discuss two events bringing Greece into the spotlight in French public and cultural life. The first was Greece’s participation in the IFTM Top Resa 2026 international tourism trade show, held September 15–17 at Paris Porte de Versailles. The...
The program welcomed Chrysoula Melissinaki, president and founder of the Greek Museum of Adelaide. The interview focused on the museum’s current exhibition, which runs through 17 October 2026: “From the Phoenix to the Drachma and the Euro: The History of Money in Modern Greece.”
The exhibition featu...
Sofia Stavrianidou, the driving force behind The Greek Film Festival in Berlin, spoke on the program about “The Greek Film Festival GOES Frankfurt.” Films from the Berlin festival will be screened in Frankfurt on 19 and 20 September. As she explained, this is the fifth consecutive year the event has...
Con Apoifis, president of the Greek Orthodox Community of New South Wales, visited the Voice of Greece studio from Sydney. During the interview, he spoke about his personal migration story and the evolution of the Greek community in New South Wales, from the 1950s, when he arrived in Australia at the...
Dr. Nikolaos Rigas, a distinguished neurologist, psychiatrist, child psychiatrist, and psychotherapist with extensive involvement in medicine, academia, Greek diaspora affairs, and politics, visited the Voice of Greece studio.
Dr. Rigas spoke about his career in medicine, life in Germany during the...
Academic and poet Valia Tsaita-Tsilimeni, a permanent resident of Geneva, visited the Voice of Greece studio.
Tsaita-Tsilimeni graduated from the Department of Medieval and Modern Greek Studies at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki’s Faculty of Philosophy. She completed her postgraduate studies a...
Writer and actor Konstantinos Alsinos, who lives in London, visited the Voice of Greece studio to discuss migration, life in multicultural London, and his ties to the Greek community there.
The conversation focused on his writing, prompted by his book “Λάμπα θυέλλης,” which blends elements of poe...
The program welcomed Evangelos Rigos, a representative of the organizing committee for the “Smart Islands” international conferences, organized by the International Hellenic Association (IHA), based in Delaware, USA.
Rigos discussed in detail the third conference, which will take place on Gavdos on ...
The program welcomed Foteini Papadimitriou, author of the historical novel “Η πρώτη έποικος,” published by Pigi Publications. As she explained, the book tells the true story of Katherine Plessou-Crummer, the first Greek woman to migrate to Australia, in 1835.
The author discussed her research int...
Year 11 students in Melbourne created a newspaper, researching and conducting interviews for articles that capture life in Australia’s Greek community.
Odysseas Krypotos, a teacher at the schools of the Greek Community of Melbourne and Victoria, and student Dimitra Vrettou joined the program to d...
The program welcomed Panagiotis Bazigos, secretary of the Messinian Amphictyony, to discuss the summer gathering of Messinians from around the world, held in Kalamata on 4 August. As Bazigos noted, this was the first time all 13 members of the organization’s board had attended. He also discussed the c...
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