Aristides Chairetis aka 'Galiaftis', from Anogia village in Crete explains how his love for nature, life and women made him one of the greatest folk musicians in the island.
Narrator: Aristides Chairetis (Gialaftis)
Researcher: Nikos Kallergis
Podcast creator: Stavros Vlachos
Sound designer:...
On the night of September 6, 1955, in Istanbul, Nikos Marousis can see the Turkish mob destroy the church in his neighborhood, amidst rapes and murders. Years later, in the course of his military service, he meets one of the culprits.
Narrator: Nikos Marousis
Researcher: Daphne Zachariadou
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An expatriate from Himare escapes from the oppressive everyday life of the Albanian regime, to face the inhospitable welcome in Greece that she so longed to come to know. Her love of all things Greek helps her overcome obstacles, but also brings her face to face with the Albanian police when she returns...
Do we really see everything on an archaeological site? What goes on when the visitors leave? What special requests do visitors make? Sotiris Gousis worked as a technician on the Acropolis for decades. He knows all its hidden secrets and shares a few of them with us…
Interviewee: Sot...
Dinos Kouis, the iconic football player of Aris, has made sure to embellish his talent with hard work and preparation. After a successful career on the courts, he continues to believe that if you really want something, you will surely achieve it.
Narrator: Dinos KouisResearcher:...
Stories of people from all over Greece: 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.
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Monday 04 September: ''Freedom was ...
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Istorima is the largest 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...
The first memory he has of dancing was as a teenager, outside the "Pallas" cinema in Pagrati, after the movie "Saturday Night Fever". Konstantinos Rigos, Ballet Director of the Greek National Opera, recalls his first trips abroad: Tbilisi, Batumi, Bogota, Caracas. Some episodic…
Interviewee: K...
Perhaps 'easy money' isn't that easy, after all. Giorgos Giannoulakis was living the high life with all the money, confort and luxury he could wish for...until the day his beloved uncle's scam came to light. Up util the day, his uncle's whereabouts are unkown.
Interviewee: Giorgos...
One spring afternoon of 1954, a group of boys from Sofades, Karditsa are walking through a meadow, when a great earthquake lets them witness an unprecedented sight of nature. It was the earthquake of Sofades that left behind 25 dead, hundreds injured and 6500 damaged buildings.
Interviewee: Thanasis...
Stories of people from all over Greece: 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.
This week’s episodes you shouldn’t miss:
Monday 28 August: ''The grea...
Tolkien wanted to create a mythology for the British ‘like that of the Greeks’. Was Galadriel, the queen of elves, inspired by Circe and Calypso? Bilbo by Odysseus? What do Ajax and Boromir have in common, and what is the link between the fate of Atlantis and the fall of Numenor?
Interviewee: Dim...
Who is Karagiozis after all? Sokratis Kotsores, Karagiozis puppeteer, analyzes, with a sense of humor and a love of his art, the multiple personalities and readings of Karagiozis, who are still alive to this day.
Interviewee: Socrates KotsoresRerearcher: Penny VassilakiPodcast...
During the Occupation, Bulgarian troops approach Paleokastro, Serres. Then a woman draws out a plan.
Interviewee: Koula AlexandridouRerearcher: Konstantinos DoganisPodcast Creation: Maia FilippopoulouSound Designer: Giorgos RamantanisSound Editor: Dimitris PapadakisPhotos...
In the 70s, in the village Pyrgos of Tinos island, a sculpture student opens the “pirate” amateur radio station "Unknown X". How many different music genres can possibly fit into a single music show? How can song dedications to people over the radio lead to fights and breakups? And how unknown was "Un...
In the middle of the 16th century, the painter Domenikos Theotokopoulos, who would later become widely known as El Greco, painted an icon of the Virgin Mary in Crete. Wars, revolutions, massacres, and persecutions followed. People fled, taking this icon with them across the Aegean, and the identity...
Stories of people from all over Greece: 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.
This week’s episodes you shouldn’t miss:
Monday 21 August: ''A radi...
The bronze parts were sold, the bridge was torn to pieces, the gunpowder has become fireworks for children... Zannakis Kalamaras recounts what happened to the wreck of the ELLI, which was torpedoed on Tinos by an Italian submarine on August 15, 1940.
Narrator: Zannakis KalamarasInterview...
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