Faraway Words

Journalist Chara Agridioti joined the program to discuss two cultural events with a distinctly Greek presence: – The Paris Book Festival, featuring Greek authors—mostly from the diaspora (Vasilis Panourias, Makis Malafekas, Christos Markogiannakis, Maria Kalantzopoulou, among others), and – The p...

Katerina Serifi was introduced to the audience of Voice of Greece. The occasion for her conversation with Natasa Vissarionos was her short story collection “Survival Kit”, published by Kastaniotis Editions. These are stories featuring protagonists living on the edge—of loss, love, silence, and v...

Writer and editor-in-chief of the historic Greek newspaper “Alexandrian Tachydromos”, Grigoris Chaliakopoulos, spoke on the program “Distant Conversations” about his impressions from the festive days of Holy Week, the Resurrection, and Easter in Alexandria, where he has been living and working for the...

On the program, Natasa Vissarionos spoke with writer and editor-in-chief of the Alexandrian Tachydromos, Grigoris Chaliakopoulos, who shared his impressions from the holiday period within the historic Greek community of Alexandria. Also featured as a guest was singer Betty Harlafti, on the occasion...

Guests on the show included: • Aristarchos Papadaniel from Vienna and Georgios Dovolos from New Jersey Georgios Dovolos, professor of Byzantine music, lead chanter, and philologist, spoke about the hymns of Byzantine music heard throughout Holy Week in Orthodox churches, as well as the customs a...

Guests on the show included: – Detached teacher at the Greek Language Department, Eleni Koletti, who spoke about the event they organized to mark the 200th anniversary of the Exodus of Messolonghi, as well as the activities of the Greek Language Department and her decision to teach abroad. – Int...

Guest on the show: • Composer and performer Pericles Kanaris, who spoke on the occasion of his return to New York and his appearance at DROM on 16 April, with the concert «Δρόμοι που Αγάπησα» ("Roads I Loved"). He also talked about his international career, the Near & Far Kastellorizo Intern...

The program traveled between Paris and Athens, bringing into the studio the driving force behind Librairie grecque Desmos, Giannis Mavroeidakos, who for more than four decades has been promoting Greek literature in the heart of the French capital. Mr. Mavroeidakos traced the history of Desmos, a...

On the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the Exodus of Messolonghi, the program welcomed from Naples professor, historian, author, and key figure of the Greek diaspora in Italy, Giannis Korinthios—also the initiator of the World Greek Language Day. Mr. Korinthios spoke about the invaluable contribution o...

The guest on the program was Ioanna Mousikoudi, PhD in Modern Greek Studies, historian and philologist, who lives permanently in Marseille. The occasion for this conversation was her book “Marseille in the First Half of the 20th Century through Official Archival Sources and Testimonies”, published by ...

Our guest on the program was Kostas Palamidis, Professor of Theatre Studies and Director at the National Theatre of Venezuela, as well as a prominent figure of the Greek diaspora in the country. He spoke about the past and present of the Greek community in distant Venezuela, as well as the Greek Cultural...

Panagiotis Baladakis, President of the Federation of Greek Communities of South Africa, spoke on the program about the history of Hellenism in South Africa—from the first migrants in 1860, to its flourishing in the 1960s and 1970s with around 120,000 Greeks, to the present day, when, as he noted, t...

The program featured Panos Drosinakis, President of the Federation of Greek Communities in Germany, who spoke about the draft law on postal voting for Greeks abroad, the closure of the Greek-language service of Deutsche Welle, and the unification of the two Greek communities in Hamburg. As he noted,...

The program featured, via phone, Haris Sfyrakis, founder and CEO of Algomo, on the occasion of EmTech Europe, the flagship conference of MIT Technology Review, which returns to Athens for the third consecutive year on 19 and 20 March at the Megaron – Athens Concert Hall, organized by the newspaper K...

Greek Cypriot journalist Vasoula Christodoulou joined the program by phone from London. Ms Christodoulou has had a notable career in journalism. She produces the podcast “Hellenic Voice”, where she speaks with members of the Greek diaspora and philhellenes, on London Greek Radio (LGR). She also pre...

In this episode, we met the “I. Tsiamoulis” Robotics Team, which won the FIRST LEGO League Greece Championship 2024, distinguished itself at the FIRST LEGO League World Festival in Houston (ranking among the top 10 teams worldwide), and received an award at the FIRST LEGO League World Robotics Olympiad in ...

On 01 January 2027, the Greek-language program of Deutsche Welle will cease operations, as the broadcaster has announced. A few days ago, an official petition calling for the preservation of Deutsche Welle’s Greek service was submitted to the Bundestag, the German parliament. Mr. Kostas Tatsis, h...

On the program, the director of Zographeion Lyceum, Mr. Yiannis Demirtzoglou, spoke from Constantinople about the 10th International Student Conference on Literature, which will take place from 11 to 15 March in Constantinople. The conference is dedicated to the Asia Minor writer Dido Sotiriou. Thirty-five...