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On Thursday’s program, 12 March 2026, after the introduction covering the day’s current affairs and a review of the main headlines from online media and newspapers, we discussed the economic impact on Greece of the escalating war and the government measures addressing rising prices, with Ioanna Lio...

On the program, Ms. Zografia Pipinou from the Lyceum Club of Greek Women of Vienna was a guest and spoke about the event they are organizing on Friday, 6 March, on the occasion of International Women’s Day. It is a music-theatre performance dedicated to the life and work of Sofia Vembo. Also featured o...

Anastasios Tamis, researcher and Professor Emeritus of the History of the Greek Diaspora, spoke about the enduring importance of radio in the Greek communities abroad, as well as the event held in Melbourne to mark World Greek Language Day. He joined Voice of Greece radio on the program “Our Global V...

The program "Take Your Time", hosted by Prokopis Agelopoulos, featured Emily Dimitriadis, the first Greek woman to serve as Mayor of Darebin. Darebin is one of Melbourne’s most multicultural municipalities and home to many thousands of Greeks. Ms Dimitriadis’s election represents the natural con...

Angelos Makrygiorgos, a second-generation Greek-Australian from Melbourne, joined the programme “Our Global Voice” with Dimitris Kontogiannis on Voice of Greece radio. He spoke about his experience living in Athens as a postgraduate student at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA), off...

On the Thursday edition of the programme, 13 November 2025, following the newspaper and online headlines, we spoke with Asimina Skondra, MP for Karditsa (New Democracy), on current affairs with a focus on agricultural and livestock issues. The discussion centred on OPEKEPE, the recent cases of sheep...

In the Friday edition of the show, 31 October 2025, following the review of newspaper and online headlines, we heard an interview with communication specialist Anna Kassimati, who spoke to Voice of Greece about artificial intelligence and how it may transform the fields of journalism and information,...

Anastasios Tamis, researcher and Emeritus Professor of Greek History based in Melbourne, continued his tribute to the work of businessman Konstantinos Tsoulias, who, from his base in Canberra, has been a great benefactor of Hellenism throughout Australia.

Nikos Papastergiadis, university professor in Melbourne and brother of the president of the Greek Community, Bill Papastergiadis, was a guest on the program “Take Your Time” on Voice of Greece, on the occasion of being awarded the Michael Crouch Award for his book John Berger and Me—a biography of th...

This episode featured Minas Vasileiadis, publisher and editor-in-chief of the historic Greek-language newspaper Apogevmatini of Istanbul, which recently celebrated 100 years of uninterrupted publication. Also joining the program was Kaiti Alexopoulou, president of the Greek-Australian Cultural League...

Greek educator Giota Stavridou, currently on secondment in Melbourne, was today’s guest on "Take Your Time" with Prokopis Agelopoulos, live from the studio of Voice of Greece. Ms. Stavridou is the coordinator of the Pedagogical Institute’s program "Hellenism of Anatolia – from the Aegean to Pontu...

As part of the tribute series to notable figures of the Greek Diaspora, Professor Anastasios Tamis, researcher and Emeritus Professor of Diaspora History in Melbourne, shared the remarkable story of Theodoros Skalkos—an immigrant from Laconia who played a defining role in shaping Greek-language journalism i...

What is a museum? A house of memory? A time machine? Or perhaps… a heartbeat between past and future?Join Katerina Batzaki, as we celebrate World Museum Day with a journey across continents — from Melbourne to Chicago — exploring how Greek museums abroad are not just preserving our heritage, but transfo...

The program welcomed Katerina Poutachidou, Artistic Director of Creative Drama & Arts in Melbourne. She shared the story of the center’s evolution since its founding in 2014—starting with a group of third-generation Greek-Australian children, later expanding to include children of recent immigrants, and...

Sakis Zafeiropoulos, the founder and creator of the campaign Speak Greek in March, was featured on "Faraway Words" with Natasa Vissarionos on Voice of Greece on Tuesday, March 18, 2025. This campaign, launched in Melbourne, aims to encourage the use of the Greek language in Australia throughout March....

On World Radio Day, "Time in Greece" establishes a communication bridge with the Greek radio station of Melbourne… We speak with the General Director of 3XY, Spyros Alatsas, about everything… But most importantly, about the history and struggles of immigrants to take root and succeed in a new land. The con...