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From hymns to dithyrambs, Ancient Greek music contains forms of music that correspond to different occasions and aspects of social life. Our knowledge of this music is founded on fragments of scores, literary references and other sources, and is enriched by the work of pioneering artists-researchers...

Petros Tabouris is a prominent musician and researcher who has extensively reconstructed and recorded music connected with the Greek antiquity. His work includes performances of hymns, odes and fragments, among others. Throughout this week, we are appreciating his vision of how Ancient Greek music might...

After discovering Byzantine ecclesiastical music and the theory of Greek popular music, and meeting musicians, Petros Tabouris became involved in composition and research. In the 90s, he released many records in Greece and in Europe and has made a study of ancient and medieval/post-Byzantine music and...

In a time of instant messages and disappearing words, “Infinitely Curious” pauses — and listens. This episode is devoted to the lost art of handwritten letters: love letters, letters from home, letters written across distance, migration, loss and time.Through poetry by W. H. Auden and voices from arou...

Τι συμβαίνει όταν μια πολιτική απόφαση αλλάζει τη μοίρα εκατοντάδων χιλιάδων ζωών — ζώων και ανθρώπων;Σε αυτό το επεισόδιο του “Infinitely Curious”, η Κατερίνα Μπατζάκη στρέφεται στην ερευνητική δημοσιογραφία του ανεξάρτητου οργανισμού Solomon για να φωτίσει μια ιστορία που εκτυλίχθηκε μακριά από τα πρωτοσέλιδα: τ...

What if a wish is not merely desire—but courage? In this festive New Year’s episode of Infinitely Curious, Katerina Batzaki explores the quiet power of wishing—and what happens when intention meets action. From 7-year-old William Kottos, who reminds us that courage has no age, to James...

Inspired by a Christmas letter from Umberto Eco to his grandson, warning that a brain unused becomes a brain weakened, and by everyday moments we all recognize—like no longer knowing our own streets without Google Maps—journalist and presenter Katerina Batzaki explores how the internet is reshaping our...

“Infinitely Curious” travels to Amman, following the pulse of the 18th ARIJ (Arab Investigative Journalism) Annual Forum 2025 — where journalists from across the Arab world and beyond came together not to celebrate the craft, but to defend it. With newsrooms under strain, truth under attack and t...

Today, we are celebrating the Greek-French connections established through the songs of wonderful Edith Piaf, who was born on this day, December 19, 1915. From Nana Mouskouri to Tania Tsanaklidou and from Milva to Liesbeth List, numerous world-class vocalists honoured the French star’s repertoire. O...

Today, we are celebrating the soundtracks written for the films of a renowned film and theatre director, producer and writer, born on this day, December 18, 1911, who also maintained multiple meaningful connections with Greece. Hadjidakis and Theodorakis, in particular, wrote some of their most popular...

Today, we are celebrating the talent and expressiveness of a world music star from Cape Verde who passed away on this day, December 17, 2011. Her songs were often devoted to themes of love, homesickness, nostalgia, and the history of the Cape Verdean people. Our destination: Cesaria Evora. Αγάπη, νοστ...

Today, we turn to a pioneering writer who passed away exactly 51 years ago, on December 16, 1974. Specifically, we are listening to mostly recent recordings of his songs set to music by bands such as Active Member, Winter Swimmers, Gymna Kalodia and Horis Refren, as well by artists such as Loukas Thanos...

Today, we are celebrating the legacy of a true folk master, a composer and lyricist who shaped Greek song for the centuries to come, an exceptional artist born on this day, December 15, 1933. Our destination: Akis Panou, the genius. Άκης Πάνου: Η ιδιοφυΐα Σήμερα, γιορτάζουμε την κληρονομιά ενός πραγματικού λα...

Katerina Batzaki welcomes Louis (Ilias) Katsos — a leading construction executive, entrepreneur, philanthropist, and one of the most influential figures in Greek-American life. With more than 20 million sq. ft. of New York high-rise projects to his name and decades of service in major Greek-American i...

What does it mean to be young, Greek, and raised thousands of kilometers from the Aegean?What does Greekness sound like when spoken in an encouraging family environment in Washington … or a Cape Town rhythm… an Imvros breeze… or a Romanian heartbeat? On this episode of “Infinitely Curious”, host Kate...

“Infinitely Curious” with Katerina Batzaki, opens a chapter of Greece’s hidden history. A story of mothers, children… and the silent heartbreak of forced adoption.   Our guest is James P. Axiotis, Greek-American producer and humanitarian, adopted from Athens in 1963 and separated from his mother — ...

From Sotiria Bellou to Mario and from Tzeni Vanou to Giannis Kalantzis, countless folk vocalists have sang about komboloi, this tool of relaxation that has acquired multiple symbolisms in the context of Greek song. Komboloi is a symbol of friendship but also of abandonment when its holder plays with...

Today, we begin a 2-day mini tribute to a typically Greek object that has inspired numerous Greek songs. Worry beads (or “komboloi”) are a string of beads manipulated with one or two hands and, apart from entertaining and relaxing multiple generations of Greeks, they have inspired numerous folk son...