Welcome back to THE TRACK REVIEW, your favourite weekly radio broadcast Series created by Ali DAMPIED and Anna ZUKOWSKA. In this Episode, the main host is gonna make the weekly sports report, talk about basket-ball and focus especially on Giannis ANTETOKOUNMPO’s story and career with the first guest of the broadcast : Kostas ACHILE. You […]

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THE TRACK REVIEW EPISODE 2: BALLIN’ LIKE A GREEK FREAK

New Weekly Episodes Radio Broadcast Series created by Ali Dampied and Anna Zukowska. Multiple topics about Sports, Music, World News and World Culture. For this first episode, hosts are gonna make a weekly motorsports report, share some good music with you and interview each other about their respective personal and professional backups. You will find […]

THE TRACK REVIEW EPISODE 1 : MUTUAL INTRODUCTION

Αγάπη, Τσίπουρο, Μπουζούκι & Roll gathered the old team: Κατερίνα, Pauline, and Bernardo! The time as arrived to do a retrospective, as the show might have ended indeed. Thus, we will go back to Erotocritos, Ethnic Jazz & Fusion, Rebetika, Thrace, Pontos, Cyprus, Smirna, Epirus, the Greek Macedonia, Crete, the Greek Progressive Rock, and the […]

Episode 15: The Lost Songs (special)

Episode 14: Do you know what is the difference among the definitions of “refugee”, “migrant” and “asylum seeker”? Do you know what happens when a child arrives in Europe? For our final episode, we invited to discuss this topic two guests, Ilaria and Giusy. They are young and very promising in their fields, respectively, Migration […]

Working with Young Asylum Seekers

It’s a fact: as human beings, we tend to categorise all that happens in our life. This includes objects, experiences, and people. For this reason, a series of questions arises: why do we tend to generalise? Why stereotypes play such a huge role in shaping a community? And why it takes so much time to go get rid of them? In this episode, you will hear the opinions and experiences of Laurynas, Livia, and Filippo, our colleague volunteers, while Ourania, as a social psychologist, will share with us some knowledge and parameters to understand better what stands behind a stereotype. We are living a historical moment which is also a great opportunity to review the stereotypes we inherited with the hope of adopting a more inclusive and open attitude towards the other.

People, not Stereotypes

Together with Christodoulos Andreou, Αγάπη, Τσίπουρο, Μπουζούκι & Roll departs to discover the relations between Greek theater and music. In this ocasion, it’s a path through time we have ahead. Rythm and acting; singing and masking – born and raised in Greece around 600 years BC, theatre was inseparable from music in its origins! Additional […]

Episode 14: Greek Theater Music (special)

Αγάπη, Τσίπουρο, Μπουζούκι & Roll is back to the Greek Macedonia! However, now we shall travel East, closer to the borders with Trace! Here, we will get in contact with a mysterious musical tradition, which only now is started to be well studied. So, Dear Listeners, please hop on this explorative trip through Eastern Macedonia […]

Episode 13: Μακεδονικά II (Eastern Macedonia)

Take a dive with us into the most popular music event worldwide to find out all the secrets of the backstage. Bringing together more than 40 countries from Europe and beyond, every year Eurovision unites millions of people through music and art. Representing their culture and history, each country performs a unique music show. But Eurovision is not only about entertainment and glitter. Since the first competition it became a way for contestants to express political, social and cultural issues within their own countries and project the diplomatic relationships with the others. Enjoy today's talk with Alex Sanchez!

Inside Eurovision

Αγάπη, Τσίπουρο, Μπουζούκι & Roll went psychedelic! That’s right Dear Listeners, we are about to land in the planet of Greek Progressive Rock. This musical genre initiated in the United Kingdom during the mid 60s. It flourished between the creation of the first synthesizers and a period of great political turmoil. It brought Rock music […]

Episode 12: Greek Progressive Rock (special)

In the first episode of Αγάπη, Τσίπουρο, Μπουζούκι & Roll we focused on the literary-musical tradition of Ερωτόκριτος. We now return to the island of myths and legends, the land of Minos and the Minotaur – the beautiful and mysterious Crete! However, this time we will have a broader look at Κρητικά, Cretan traditional music. […]

Episode 11: Κρητικά (Crete)

This eleventh episode is entirely dedicated to sustainability and the "zero waste" or "low waste" movement. Everything we do, everything we consume, has an impact on the environment and natural resources. And just because we don’t see it, it doesn’t mean that it’s not there.

Living Low Waste

Αγάπη, Τσίπουρο, Μπουζούκι & Roll doesn’t cease to travel! This time, the Dear Listeners are invited to get to know the brass wonders hiden in the Μακεδονικά traditional music of Central-West Macedonia. Land of many empires, notably the one built by Alexandre The Great, and with a very rich history, Macedonia was a beloved tresure […]

Episode 10: Μακεδονικά (Central-West Macedonia)

How do Second-generation migrants relate to their cultural background? What are some of the challenges they faced growing up? Are these different from the ones they are now facing in their adult life? Today we invited Magda, Yannis, and Weam to discuss this topic and to know more about their life story. Listen up and take a dive into this multicultural world!

Children of Migrants

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