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Reupload - Best Podcast of the Year 2023 : Disability in Times of War (Award winning podcast)
26 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As the end of the year approaches, we invite you to listen again to one of our best podcasts of 2023, winner of the Hostwriter Award.Once the Russian ...
Reupload - AI And You - Episode 10 : The Future of AI
19 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The final episode of AI and You casts a light on the disadvantages and the advantages of Artificial Intelligence in various sectors. A hope-filled pot...
Reupload - AI And You - Episode 9: How important is AI regulation?
12 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
AI is one of the most hotly debated topics in parliaments, governments, and European and international institutions currently. At the end of 2023, 31 ...
Reupload - AI And You - Episode 8: How secure is AI?
05 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
AI systems can search through enormous volumes of personal data, including criminal histories and other characteristics deemed to be "risk factors”....
Rebroadcast - AI And You - Episode 7 : Can AI solve the climate crisis?
28 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Can technology participate in solving the climate crisis? When it comes to energy waste optimisation, AI can step in and help. It can also optimise en...
Rebroadcast - AI And You - Episode 6 : AI and Equality
24 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Have you already heard about AI-powered hiring practices?Is this common practice reducing inequality or reinforcing discrimination? Some tech exp...
Rebroadcast - Episode 5 : Can AI help us take better care of ourselves?
14 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
AI has the potential to make certain diagnoses earlier and more accurately than human beings. However, some AI deployments in healthcare could harm us...
Rebroadcast - Episode 4 : Can you learn with AI?
07 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How AI can impact education? In some places like China, Artificial Intelligence already plays a role in teaching, grading and planning lessons for stu...
Rebroadcast - Episode 3 : Will AI replace your job?
30 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
With the development in technology and implementation of Artificial Intelligence all over different sectors, some of us are left with the fear that ou...
Rebroadcast - Episode 2 : My AI friend?
23 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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Rebroadcast - Episode 1 : Evolution of AI
17 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It was in the 1950s that the term “Artificial Intelligence” was first coined at a research conference, and ever since then, till today, humans hav...
Rebroadcast - AI And You - Trailer
09 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
AI and You is a 10-episode-long podcast series answering the burning questions revolving around the present and future impact of artificial intelligen...
Should we stop travelling?
02 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
After five episodes focusing on Santorini, I now take a step back and take a look at overtourism on a European scale.Dr. Antonio Paolo Russo shares hi...
Who even cares?
25 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we talk about responsibility. Who should act to save Santorini? What are politicians doing? Who even cares?When activists are doing m...
Typical Greekness
18 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What happened to authenticity? When people start comparing some areas of Santorini with Disneyland, it is not a good sign.This episode is about the im...
The art of killing what you love
11 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What’s the actual impact of over-tourism on the environment of Santorini? In this episode, activists, politicians and locals sound the alarm on...
Santorini is a whore
04 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“Everyone will get something from her, but no one will love her.” As tourist arrivals keep growing and attain dramatic numbers, the quality of lif...
A dream destination was born
28 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How did Santorini get here? How did this once small and quiet island become the host of millions of tourists every year?Sharing their archives and mem...
Hypertourismos [Teaser]
28 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dream destination Santorini is now a victim of its own success. Hypertourismos is a podcast that hands the mic to the locals, exploring how over-touri...
When the Wolves Came: A Tale of Two Churches
24 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Pastor Caleb Campbell leads an evangelical church in Phoenix. After Trump’s first election, Caleb became alarmed at rising religious extremism in ev...
The Drying Plain: Home sweet inefficiency 6/6
21 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The last episode of The Drying Plain looks into the business and economy of renewable energy installations in Serbian citizens' homes. However, throug...
The Drying Plain: The dark side of batteries 5/6
14 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Despite local protests, CATL Debrecen, one of Europe's largest battery factories, which has been under construction since 2023, may start operations i...
The Drying Plain: The city of stench 4/6
07 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Located 45 minutes by car from the Hungarian border, the Serbian town of Topola in Vojvodina has become notorious in recent years for the stench sprea...
The Drying Plain: If invasive mosquitos take over 3/6
30 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Asian tiger mosquito appeared in Europe in the 1970s due to increasing global commercial exchanges. This invasive mosquito species now has stable ...
The Drying Plain: When farming becomes a gamble 2/6
23 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we look at how climate change is transforming Vojvodina, known for its endless plains and fertile soil. We meet with farmers who are ...
The Drying Plain: Conceptualising Climate Change 1/6
17 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
With the help of scientist György Kroel-Dulay and visual artist Kitti Gosztola, we explore the concepts of climate change and adaptation. What are we...
The Drying Plain : [Trailer]
10 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Global temperatures have risen to levels not seen in 125,000 years. Rivers and lakes are drying up. Wildlife is in obvious distress. Invasive pests ar...
The Right Kind of Family : A Wave of resistance 6/6
08 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In episode 6 of The Right Kind of Family, we travel to Warsaw, where a group of activists has opened the first clinic offering free access to medical ...
The Right Kind of Family : The Great Replacement conspiracy 5/6
01 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In episode 5 of The Right Kind of Family, we tackle the Great Replacement theory, a conspiracy theory that is very present in the politics of far-righ...
The Right Kind of Family : Destroying gender 4/6
24 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In episode 4 of The Right Kind of Family, our reporters travel back to Spain, a country which has become a model in the development of progressive tra...
The Right Kind of Family : The abortion playbook 3/6
17 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In episode 3 of The Right Kind of Family, we travel to Italy, a country which has become a model for how it has been limiting access to abortion for w...
The Right Kind of Family : A family-friendly country 2/6
10 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In episode 2 of The Right Kind of Family, our reporters travel to Hungary, a country ruled by Viktor Orban's Fidezs party since 2010. This relatively ...
The Right Kind of Family : A very bright future 1/6
03 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In episode 1 of The Right Kind of Family, reporters Claudia Torrisi, Elsa Cabria, Francesca Berardi and Lili Rutai are in Madrid, in the Spanish Senat...
The Right Kind of Family : [Trailer]
27 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"The Right Kind of Family" is a podcast co-produced by El País Audio, Chora Media, Europod, and 444.It was created within the framework of the WePod ...
A Grain of Power: Who controls the grain? 6/6
22 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the last episode of A Grain of Power, we cast a light on the functioning of the market of grain and wheat at the global level. Until now, this seri...
A Grain of Power : The governance - Bruxelles 5/6
15 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
After analysing the impact of the lack of grain and wheat on the global South, in the 5th episode of A Grain of Power, we look at the impact an abunda...
A Grain of Power : The void - Cairo, Egypt 4/6
08 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
With the fourth episode of A Grain of Power, the reportage trip which started in Ukraine and passed along the Western coast of the Black Sea reaches i...
A Grain of Power : The ports - The Black Sea 3/6
01 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the third episode of A Grain of Power, the team of reporters behind this documentary travels from Odessa, in Ukraine, towards Istanbul, in Turkey, ...
A Grain of Power : The fields - Mykolaiv, Ukraine 2/6
24 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The second episode of A Grain of Power brings you to Ukraine. More specifically, we get to know the story of farmers in the Southwestern region of Myk...
A Grain of Power: The bakery - Trevignano, Italy 1/6
17 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The first episode of A Grain of Power starts in Trevignano, near Rome, Italy. It starts with the story of Culetti, a small modern bakery led by Mirko ...
A Grain of Power: [Trailer]
10 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Through six episodes, A Grain of Power is a documentary podcast that takes you on a journey from the heart of Ukraine to the markets of Egypt, passing...
SLAPPed: journalists against strategic lawsuits
28 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Very recently, Greece learned the meaning of the term SLAPP, short for Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation. It was not because Greeks read ...
Follow the money: The Petsas’ List
26 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the context of COVID-19 and its very special circumstances, the Greek government decided to give a huge amount of money, around 20 million euros, t...
Inside the newsroom: stories of self-censorship
24 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
News manipulation and censorship have been done in many indirect ways, mainly economically. But sometimes, it is crude and overt in Greece: journalist...
Behind the death of a journalist: the Karaiwaz case
21 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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Spying on journalists: Greece's phone hacking scandal
19 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Greece is back on the front page of the international media after a significant phone-tapping scandal. The wiretaps were carried out against the journ...
What #108 is all about
17 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
From 2022, Greece ranks the worst of all EU countries in the RSF ranking for press freedom. Why has it fallen from 70th to 108th out of 180 countries?...
Truck Drivers : The future of transport 6/6
13 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the last episode, we look at the future of the transport sector. How will goods be moved in the coming years? Which role will artificial inte...
Truck Drivers : Another Way 5/6
06 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Truck drivers transport 77% of products in Europe, but road transport is not the only option. Trains and intermodal systems are one of the alternative...
Truck Drivers : Kilometers of Pollution 4/6
27 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On our journey through the roads of central Europe, we often encountered trucks with Polish or Lithuanian licence plates. An accident? Certainly not. ...
Truck Drivers : East Vs West 3/6
20 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On our journey through the roads of central Europe, we often encountered trucks with Polish or Lithuanian licence plates. An accident? Certainly not. ...
Truck Drivers : Safety First 2/6
13 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Truck drivers are expected to obey precise rules when driving, but this is not always the case. Many of them are forced to break these rules in order ...
Truck Drivers : A life on the road 1/6
06 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In Europe, there is a shortage of around 230,000 truck drivers, but by 2028 there will be as many as 745,000 vacancies. Excessive working hours, inade...
Truck Drivers : [Trailer]
30 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Truck Drivers is the story of an indispensable profession, but also of an economic and logistical system under strain. It’s a story of exploitation,...
Sea of Rage: A European Story 6/6
23 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the last episode of Sea of Rage, we travel back to Barbate and investigate what happened on the night of the 9th of February 2024, when two local p...
Sea of Rage: Red Threads 5/6
16 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we continue our reporting from the area of Gioia Tauro. We meet journalist Michele Albanese who lives under police protection these d...
Sea of Rage: The Port of Gioia Tauro 4/6
09 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we travel to the Italian coast and port-town of Gioia Tauro, in the Southern region of Calabria. We discover the history of the const...
Sea of Rage: The Rage 3/6
19 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
After visiting the neighbourhood of El Pinar and the port of Barbate, in this episode we try to understand deeper reasons for why this south-western S...
Sea of Rage: The Port of Barbate 2/6
10 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Walking the streets of Barbate is not enough to grasp why drug trafficking affects this small town in South-Western Spain. In this episode, the team o...
Sea of Rage: El Pinar 1/6
03 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, the team of reporters behind Sea of Rage set foot for the first time in Barbate, Andalusia, South-Western Spain. They meet people fro...
Sea of Rage [Trailer]
26 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Sea of Rage is a reportage podcast dealing with the borderless narco-trafficking business as seen from the perspective of ordinary people who live in ...
Bonus Episode: Interview with Alexis Tsipras
02 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Alexis Tsipras: "Angela Merkel did not succeed in making Europe less German but she tried to make Germany more European."In this bonus episode of my q...
Bonus episode by Crisis Group : German Foreign Policy After Merkel
25 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This episode bonus of "my question to Angela Merkel" is part of the series War & Peace, by the International Crisis Group, EuroPod's partner. Afte...
Bonus Episode - Interview with Jean-Claude Juncker
18 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
They are both monsters of European political longevity. Jean-Claude Juncker, former President of the European Commission, answered EuroPod’s questio...
Episode 10 - Angie and us
12 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The journey is about to end. Emilia has already walked us through the most pivotal moments of Angela Merkel’s life and political career, including h...
Episode 9 - This is a dog’s world
04 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
By now we know all about Angela Merkel’s life and political career up until her famous “Wir schaffen das!”. Now Emilia will tell us all about Me...
Episode 8 - Angie says « Wir schaffen das » and the extremes go mad
28 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Emilia has already delved into every detail of Merkel’s life and political career up until her reaction to the Greek sovereign debt crisis. As we wi...
Episode 7 - What’s with the Austerity Angie?
21 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
By now we know all about Merkel’s life and political career up until how she reacted to the financial crash of 2008. In this episode, we will discov...
Episode 6 - Financial Crash and Angie: the Reluctant European
14 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Emilia already told us all about Merkel’s youth and retraced every step of her political career up until the role she played in closing the deal on ...
Episode 5 - Lisbon Treaty, Angie’s Treaty?
06 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Emilia already told us all about Merkel’s youth and the beginning of her political career, including her years as Minister and leader of the opposit...
Episode 4 - Angela Merkel, the Snow White Killer
29 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
With Angela Merkel’s youth and the beginning of her political career already covered, Emilia will move on to tell us about Helmut Kohl opening many ...
Episode 3 - Minister Angie
22 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In the previous episodes Emilia has told us all about Angela Merkel’s youth. It is now time to discover her complex relationship with feminism and t...
Episode 2 - The Fall of the Berlin Wall and Angie at the sauna
16 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
After having delved into her origins in the previous episode, Emilia moves on to investigate what Angela was up to in her late 20s and her early 30s. ...
Episode 1 - Baby Merkel: Angie Kasner
14 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Emilia starts her quest for the perfect question to ask Angela Merkel by looking into her origins. We find out about her life as the ...
Episode 0: Angie and me
01 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Follow Emilia in Angela Merkel's footsteps. Discover the series tone and agenda as well as famous guests who will give exclusive insights about the mo...