One night, the evening of the festival of Saint Paraskevi, Giannis Badanis is driving in Naxos. Through the wind and the darkness, he hears voices from the sea, calling for help.
Interviewee: Giannis Bardanis
Field Reporter: Efthymia Papagiannopoulou
Podcast Creation: Stavros Vlachos
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On 24 July 1974, Dimitris Doukas, former director of Athens Airport, was called on to make an important decision: Should he allow the flight carrying Konstantinos Karamanlis, the first president of the 3rd Hellenic Republic, to land in Greece.
Interviewee: Dimitris DoukasField Reporter: Dimitris...
Linda Carol Trotter grew up in San Antonio, Texas, adopted by loving American parents. She had always known she was adopted from Greece; she was told she was born premature, and that her birth mother had died during delivery. In 2017, her quest to find more about her roots led her to a remote village...
The tragic hours of the deadly forest fires in Mati in July 2018, experienced up close by a paramedic who threw himself into the flames from the very first moment. Manos Tsaliagkos from Rafina Civil Protection Service describes the battle with fire, the psychological effect and his permanent fears for...
A teenage boy piles up violent and hateful feelings as he spends his days working at the family grocery store. And yet he grows up to love the store, and cherish every single real life lesson it gave him.
Interviewee: he has asked to remain anonymous
Field researcher: Stefania Papoutsi
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One night, the evening of the festival of Saint Paraskevi, Giannis Badanis is on a beach. Through the wind and the darkness, he hears voices from the sea, calling for help.
Interviewee: Giannis BardanisInterview by: Efthymia PapagiannopoulouProducer: Stavros VlachosSound Designer: Nikolas...
The tragic moments of the battle of the Hellenic Force of Cyprus (ELDYK) in Nicosia through the recollections of Antonis Vrouhakis, a Cretan soldier who had only just stepped his foot on the island on the day the Turks invaded.
Interviewee: Antonis VrouhakisField Researcher: Alexander NatsiPodcast...
Closed societies, strict values and strong discipline, accompanied with sweet and nostalgic memories. What is hapiness, after all, and how deeply can the passing of time affect our impressions of the past?
Interviewee: Maria- Soy Hatzieleftheriou
Field Researcher: Vasiliki...
On January 9, 1969, a newlywed Greek couple is flying from New York to the Bahamas when a young man at gunpoint diverts the plane to Cuba. The passengers end up in the Havana of the embargo, just a decade after the Cuban Revolution…
Interviewee: Morela Koufaki-AvdiInterview by: Efrosyni K...
Traditional 'loukoumia' producer Dina Sykoutri-Andreiomenou has made endless piles of loukoumia in her copper cauldrons through the years, ever since she was a little girl. And yet, every single stir echoes back the same thought: How she had to drop school against her will.
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A spearfisher has only just emerged from the sea, with a large fish in his arms, when he hears a clacking sound and sees his spear sticking out of his chest; an unusually cheery recollection of an accident, still traveling by wordof mouth among the fishermen of Schinoussa island.
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Vasilis Mesetidis is the one and only Greek person who crossed the four continents on two wheels.
Interviewee: Vasilis Mesetidis
Field Researcher: Kostis Kotsonis
Podcast Creation: Maya Filippopoulou, Haris Pagonidou
Sound Recording: Iasonas Theofanou, Dimitris...
On January 9, 1969, a newlywed Greek couple is flying from New York to the Bahamas when a young man at gunpoint diverts the plane to Cuba. The passengers end up in the Havana of the embargo, just a decade after the Cuban Revolution…
rview by: Efrosyni Kyriazi
Producer: Efrosyni K...
In 2009 Anna Ellis visited Zitsa, a small village in western Greece, while couchsurfing with her sister. There she met their host, Kostas, the village’s baker. She spent only 24 hours there, but it changed her life forever.
Interviewee: Anna EllisInterview by: Giannis Koutroudis, Sofia P...
Every morning she wakes up thinking about what recipes she is going to make, about what she has to offer. She has catered for Presidents such as Obama and Biden, as well as homeless people during the pandemic.Chef Maria Loi began cooking from a young age at her hometown, a little village of Aetoloakarnania, ...
When his fishing boat runs adrift due to a mechanical failure, Giannis Bardanis finds himself lost at sea into the troubled waves of the Aegean.
Interviewee: Giannis BardanisField Researcher: Efthymia PapagiannopoulouPodcast Creation: Stavros VlachosSound Recording: Dimitris PaleogiannisSound...
Syrna is a small barren island in the middle of the Aegean, where a great chapter of history has been written. Eleni Sapsakou-Metaksotou, the offspring of the only family who inhabited the island at the time, remembers when allied ships and submarines took refuge there, the German troopers and the rescuing...
His voice brings back childhood memories: Akindynos Gkikas is the man who gave substance to the Smurfs, Thundercats' Lion-O, Winnie the Pooh and many more classic characters from kids' TV shows in the '90s.The Greek actor is now offering us a tour into the magical world of voice acting.
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