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Vangelis Petroulakis piloted the last plane that took off amid fire from Nicosia airport before it was bombed by the Turks in 1974 and stopped operating to this day. Narrator: Vangelis Petroulakis Researcher: Arestia Papadimitriou Podcast Creation: Stavros Vlachos Sound Design: Giorgos...

On one of the last days of the Greek Civil War, in a village of mount Parnon, groups of organization X members order the residents to gather in the square. The sight they see traumatizes them forever. Narrator: Maria Tseleki Researcher: Tselekis Panagiotis Podcast Creation:...

Maria Petsetidi, on a break from studying for the nationwide university entrance exams, manages to stop the best chess player in the world. Narrator: Maria Petsetidi Researcher: Gioula Asimakopoulou Podcast Creation: Thanos Psychogios Sound Design: Nikolas Konstantinou Sound...

The shocking chronicle of mountaineer Antonis Sykaris’ attempt for the first winter ascent to the K2 summit, in February 2021, in an expedition in which five of his companions lost their lives. Narrator: Antonis Sykaris Interview: Stavros Vlachos Podcast creation: Stavros V...

A young mother describes minute by minute how she and members of her family survived the forest fires of Mati in the summer of 2018. But not all of them managed to survive. Interviewee: Fei Sekeridi Field Reporter: Danae Charalampidi Producer: Stavros Vlachos - Daphne Matziaraki Sound...

Aliki Vougiouklaki, Rena Vlahopoulou, Anthony Hopkins behind the cameras. In the cinema industry, Maro Karagiannopoulou has adventures, experiences tragicomic situations and disdain due to her gender, hard work and a great love. Narrator: Maro Karagiannopoulou Researcher: Eleni Peppa Podcast...

In the middle of the 16th century, painter Domenikos Theotokopoulos, who would later become known as El Greco, paints an icon of the Virgin Mary in Venetian-occupied Crete. Wars, revolutions, massacres and persecutions follow, the icon crosses the Aegean and no one knows its creator anymore. Until one...

War, separation and the hard life in the "mines of death", hundreds of meters underground, made Stratis Giagtzidis focus only on the important things in life. What has meaning, when nothing has meaning anymore? Narrator: Stratis Giagtzidis Researcher: Katerina Pistola Podcast creation:...

A young mother describes every moment of how she and her family escaped through the flames in the 2018 fires in Mati. Narrator: Fei Sekeridi Researcher: Danai Charalampidi Podcast Creation: Stavros Vlachos, Daphne Matziaraki Sound Design: Dimitris Palaiogiannis Sound Editing:...

In 2015, just off the Nigerian coast, pirates mount a deadly attack on a Greek tanker. A crew member describes each moment as it unfolded - and what it felt like to survive. Field Reporter: Viktoria Delakovia Producer: Maya Filippopoulou Sound Designer: Iasonas Theofanou Sound...

In Lesbos in 1965, Eleni Theodorou boards a ship bound for Australia, to marry a man she has never met. And so the adventure begins: factories, modern morals, racist attacks, in a foreign place that "needs struggle, but also love". Narrator: Eleni Tzanni Researcher: Panagitsa Xenitelli Podcast...

The terrifying experiences she lived through as a prisoner in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp forever scar the soul of Rina Revach. Decades later, she will go on a journey of salvation in the place where she experienced horrors. Narrator: Rina Revach Researcher:...

A crew member describes, in detail, the bloody attack by pirates on a Greek tanker in Nigeria in 2015. Researcher: Viktoria Delakovia Podcast Creation: Maya Filippopoulou Sound Design: Iasonas Theofanou Sound Editing: Dimitris Papadakis Photographs: Nikos Mandilas Music:...

A little girl visits her uncle in Aegina’s prison of exiles, in the early 1950s. Narrator: Eleni Moschou Researcher: Dimitris Moschos Podcast Creation: Stavros Vlachos Sound Design: Iasonas Theofanou Sound Editing: Michael Ikonomidis Photographs: Vasia A...

In 1986 Christos Christofis is on the last leg of a flight from Los Angeles to Athens when a bomb explodes just six seats in front of him. Interviewee: Christos Christofis Field Reporter: Spyros Mantzavinos Producer: Stavros Vlachos Sound Designer: Iason Thofanou Sound Editor:...

From the smell of the grills at the festivals of Achaia to the stage of Cirque du Soleil, the most renowned circus in the world. Narrator: Kriton Anastasopoulos Researcher: Katerina Pistola Podcast creation: Maya Filippopoulou Sound Design: Iasonas Theofanou Sound Editing:...

Christos Christofis was a passenger on the TWA 840 flight, where a bomb exploded. In April 1986, the plane was on the Los Angeles-Cairo route with a stopover in Athens, when a terrifying explosion was heard over Argos. A hole opened in the fuselage and four passengers fell out into nothingness. The...

During the turbulent years of the Civil War in Kosmas of Arcadia, Yorgos Mermigkas refuses to choose a side. He is pursued by both the men of Organization X and the guerillas, escaping death three times. Narrator: Yorgos Mermigkas Researcher: Angeliki Katti Podcast creation:...