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Prokopis Angelopoulos
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Unguarded Passage

Thomas Sideris

The program has been broadcast continuously since 2014, presenting over 500 radio documentaries and countless oral testimonies and recordings that document the defining events of the past century, as well as the first two decades of the 21st century. Its extensive collection has been seamlessly integrated into the treasured archive of ERT. The program has been honored by the Albert Schweitzer humanitarian organization and the New York Foundation for Journalists and Writers.

Unguarded Passage: “The unpublished diary of Evangelos Drakopoulos” | 13 Sept. 2024
“Unguarded Passage” unveils a valuable document, the unpublished diary of Evangelos Drakopoulos. Drakopoulos records the peaceful and quiet life of the residents of Smyrna and its surroundings in his diary during the years leading up to the Asia Minor Catastrophe. These regular entries provide prec...
Forest Fires in Greece and Europe | 30 Aug. 2024
Το 2023 ήταν μια χρονιά που ξεπέρασε κάθε ρεκόρ, καθώς σημειώθηκε μια από τις μεγαλύτερες πυρκαγιές που γνώρισε ποτέ η Ευρώπη, αποτελώντας έτσι μια από τις χειρότερες περιόδους δασικών πυρκαγιών που έχουν καταγραφεί ποτέ στον γεωγραφικό χώρο της Ευρωπαϊκής Ένωσης. Η Βόρεια Αμερική επλήγη επίσης σφοδρά από δασικές πυρκαγιές, όπως και πολλές χώρες της Νότιας Αμερικής. Χάθηκαν ζωές, καταστράφηκαν περιουσίες και μέσα βιοπορισμού, και κάηκαν πολλά στρέμματα γης παγκοσμίως. Η εκπομπή “Αφύλαχτη Διάβαση”, στην εκπνοή του καλοκαιριού, ανοίγει τον φάκελο των δασικών πυρκαγιών και προσπαθεί να δώσει απαντήσεις σε μερικά από τα σημαντικότερα ερωτήματα που απασχολούν τους πολίτες. Στον ραδιοθάλαμο της ... Read more
Unguarded Passage: “The Pylos shipwreck, one year later” | 14 June 2024
One year after the Pylos boat disaster, one of the deadliest migrant shipwrecks in the Mediterranean, “Unguraded Passage” hosts Lefteris Papagiannakis, director of the Hellenic Council for Refugees, in the studio of Voice of Greece. The peak of migration flows in the previous decade, European pol...
Unguarded Passage: “The Pylos shipwreck, one year later” | 14 June 2024, 13:00
Έναν χρόνο μετά τον ναυάγιο της Πύλου, μία από τις χειρότερες προσφυγικές τραγωδίες στη Μεσόγειο, η “Αφύλαχτη Διάβαση” φιλοξενεί στον ραδιοθάλαμο της Φωνής της Ελλάδας τον Λευτέρη Παπαγιαννάκη, διευθυντή του Ελληνικού Συμβουλίου για τους Πρόσφυγες. Η κορύφωση των μεταναστευτικών ροών την προηγούμενη δεκαετία, οι ευρωπαϊκές πολιτικές για τη μετανάστευση και την κοινωνική ενσωμάτωση, ειδικά μετά ... Read more
Unguarded Passage: “Martyred Distomo” | 07 June 2024
A group of German antifascists, “AK Distomo”, coming to Greece and standing next to the relatives of the victims of Distomo. A lawyer, Miltiadis Sfountouris, son of survivor Eleni Sfountouri, who tries to shed light on hidden and dark aspects of the Nazi crime in Distomo. A survivor, who...
Forgotten Villages – Ep.15: The boy from Rethemnos and the Australian soldier | 31 May 2024
Two brothers from Australia come to Rethymnon, Crete, to pay tribute to their late father, who died as a soldier in the Battle of Crete. A 7.5-year-old boy who watched his mother, his grandmother, his aunt, and two other women being executed. ERT’s crew records unknown stories from the Battle o...
“That morning the swastika flag was not waving above the Acropolis” | 24 May 2024
ERT journalist Thomas Sideris presents a radio documentary of a total duration of 55 minutes, about the daring plan of two young students to take down the swastika from the Acropolis on the evening of May 30, 1941, almost a month after the surrender of Athens to the Nazis. The documentary...
Forgotten Villages – Ep.14: The Cretan resistance and the fight for justice | 17 May 2024
The untrodden mountains of Crete became the pockets of resistance of the people against the conquerors during World War ΙΙ, from Myrtos, Vorizia, Damasta, Anogia to Sfakia. The Cretans proved in practice that the struggle to defend freedom is a matter for everyone, children, adults, elderly, men and w...
Forgotten Villages – Ep.13: “From Myrtia and Mournies to Gerakari and Koxare” | 10 May 2024
The trek begins on September 15, 1943 in the village of Myrtos when the German officer declares to the president of the village that the village will burn and gives a deadline of two hours for the residents to take what they can and leave. On the same day as the destruction of Myrtos, the conquerors enter the village of Gdohia, after previously arresting and executing on the spot in various places twelve villagers from Gdohia and Kato Symi, including three women and a six-month-old baby.
Forgotten Villages – Ep.12: A Journey around Crete’s blood-stained grounds (Part I) | 26 Apr. 2024
On Friday, April 26th, Voice of Greece and Thomas Sideris continue the journey to the martyred villages of Crete, documenting the chronicle of the Battle of Crete in May and June 1941, as well as all the events that followed in the following years, during the Nazi occupation. The...