Athens Unpacked

Writer Sofka Zinovieff explores Athens in a quest to understand this complex, seductive city. She visits unusual places and meets Athenians, native and adopted: singers, poets, graffiti writers, architects, journalists, chefs, historians and activists. This podcast is co-funded by Greece and the European Union.

From benefactors to buskers

Birth and death the Athenian way

Songs and poems

Taking to the streets

Feasting and fasting

A city of villages

From dreams to demolition

Up above and down below

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