The events that led to the Turkish invasion of Cyprus on July 20, 1974 and what happened to Cypriot citizens on both sides of the Green Line. With guests Prof. Sakis Gekas, the HHF Chair in Modern Greek History at York University, and George Soleas. 

The Republic of Cyprus gained its independence from Great Britain in 1960. This episode looks at the road to nationhood and how coexistence between the ethnic Greek and ethnic Turkish populations was troubled from the start. With guests Triadafilos Triadafilopoulos, the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy and Professor Erol Kaymak, Centre for Applied Turkey Studies at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs.

Everything you need to know about Cyprus: its distinctiveness, culture, history and how it fits into a larger Hellenic world. With guests Neophytos Loizides, the University of Warwick, and Elisseos Kyrillou. 

The aftermath of the Athens Polytechnic student uprising and the return to democracy. 

On November 14, 1973, students barricade themselves inside the Athens Polytechnio. In the end, there would be bloodshed, but history was made. 

How people in the arts reacted to the military dictatorship and how counterculture tried to drown out that resistance.

As many Greeks flee the military dictatorship, places like Toronto take on an important role in the resistance. 

Trying to protest the new military dictatorship was a dangerous thing to do.  How the Colonels silenced their opponents...

Greeks awake on Friday, April 21, 1967 to a new reality .

 To understand the student occupation of the Athens Polytechnio, you have to understand Greece in the Post-WWII years.