Infinitely Curious

Is the treasure of the fairies really hidden at the end of the rainbow? Why does Ireland have the harp as its national symbol? Who was Brendan the Navigator? At the Irish festival in Labidona Park in Athens on June 22, lovers of irish myths,...

Food is an international language and it travels. It evolves through the centuries and is influenced by customs, cultures and traditions. No matter how far apart countries are distance wise from each other, they have one thing in common. They all share the same love and passion for food with...

Psychologists and scholars say the Law of Attraction and positive manifestation defines your ability to attract, into your life, what you focus on. Whatever you can imagine is achievable, if you take action on a plan to get to where you want to be. The true definition of the Law of Attraction is like...

Boys don’t cry. Or do they? In a world where gender plays an important part in our lives, the role men are called to play is often the tough boy who is called at a young age to get into the shoes of quick man upping. But what is manhood after all? This episode of Infinitely Curious explores why men c...

Malvasia. A wine unique for its past and special for its roots. In the vineyards of the Parnonas (Malevos) slopes, a variety of local grapes were cultivated, from which a sweet sun-dried wine was produced before the 13th century in Byzantine Monenvasia, on the south of the Peloponnese peninsula....

Rivers, endless stretches of water become sources of life, spreading across our earth’s surface . It goes without saying, that fresh, clean water is essential for humans and nature to survive. Rivers and lakes are precious sources of fresh drinking water for people a...

Analysts believe that 440,000 young people aged 17 to 21 eligible to vote could perhaps swing the election, tightly contested by the ruling New Democracy and the leftist Syriza opposition.Their decision at the ballot box will be particularly important this time around, as this is the first Greek...

As we spend more and more time staring down at our mobile phones, it’s easy to forget there are vast galaxies above us. Big corporates are sending thousands of satellites into space for the sake of better communication on Earth. While this may sound exciting, each launch leaves a trail of satellites, r...

This is a story of a song, a song that went on a mysterious journey from Ireland to Greece. The song The Laughing Boy was written by Brendan Behan as a young man possibly for his mother. And it is this curious story which became an interesting two year in-depth documentary into the history of two similar...

On Sunday 2 of April 2023, the English-language broadcast of ERT’s Voice of Greece “Infinitely Curious” with Katerina Batzaki will be dedicated to the Eurovision Song Contest. Guests of the broadcast will be the Greece’s song contestant at Eurovision Victor Vernikos as well as the journal...

All people want to have a better standard of living - social amenities, material infrastructure, relationships that provide them with a pleasant life, a healthier nutrition .  But is this ultimately achievable? Can we live in a society, having, true contact with ourselves, our fellow citizens, to ...

On Sunday 19 February 2023  the English-language broadcast of ERT’s Voice of Greece “Infinitely Curious” with Katerina Batzaki, where researcher Taghreed Al- Turki talk about how she and her colleague Jack Griffith from the University of North Carolina School of Medicine discover how the latest scie...

I have a love affair with trains. I chose my apartment in the Athens neighbourhood of Rouf because I can watch the trains pass by every day from my window. A good morning with Angeliki, the person in charge who raises and lowers the train barrier so that cars can pass, is enough to make my day. As a...

There are times when freedom is expressed through art which has no place or space. It is easily accessible and can unfold in front of us in the metro, in an alley, in the snow or on the slopes of a mountain or a beach around a fire. For performing artists this is called freedom. Two young talented...

Valerie Kontakos’ new documentary, “Queen of the Deuce,” celebrates the wild life of Chelly Wilson, a colorful and fiery character who thrived in the midst of a heavily dominated milieu, run a porn empire and hosted a rotating cast of guests and supplicants at her apartment above one of her theaters, the E...

We are our journeys. We are the people we meet. We are a journey ourselves. But often we look without seeing. We take pictures but don't take the time to listen and absorb the experience. Some of us insist on looking at the buildings, others at nature and others at the food and people or all of them...

Eudaimonia or some people call it Bliss in English is the supreme good of life. Everything we do is aimed at our bliss. But is this goal, bliss, the same for everyone? Perfect eudaimonia is the greatest good for Aristotle. It is the work of man, which distinguishes him from all other living beings....

ELEYSIS means Arrival of the Remarkable. If someone manages to change Elefsina, he can change the whole world", an artist once said. And Elefsina indeed has many reasons to want to change. The small town of 25,000 inhabitants, 21 kilometres west of Athens, is not beautiful, it is not picturesque. It...