Yanis Varoufakis
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1,142 appearances
3 recordings
2 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 3 May
Yanis Varoufakis’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And so he arrived at this interregnum and he comes to Athens and then draws at the chemistry department and the physics department of the University of Athens.
And it was at a time when the British had directed the right to
to go into bed with the left as part of this rapprochement, the taunt between them.
And the Communist Party had given instructions to the communist students also to go along with that.
So one day, a representative of the ultra-right and the communist came to him and they said to him, look, we decided you're going to be the president of the Students' Union.
Why?
Because he was a UFO.
He had come from Cairo.
Nobody knew him.
He was anodyne to both.
So he accepts that.
A couple of weeks later, at a time of famine, including famished students, the situation was awful, the authorities double student fees.
And he thought it was his job as the president of the student union to go to the rector and complain very politely in his usual French way.
I mean, his first language was French.
His Greek was not that good.
So he goes there.
He does that.
On the way out, he's grabbed by secret police.
He's taken to a cell.
He's beaten up.
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