HHF Presents
The Hellenic Heritage Foundation (HHF) is committed to supporting Hellenic education, culture and heritage initiatives across Canada. Its award-winning History Committee creates public history projects for a diaspora audience. This podcasting channel “HHF Presents” seeks to inform and narrate stories from our Greek past.
Episodes
27 episodes
Cyprus: An Island Divided. Episode Five: The Future of The Green Line
Cyprus and its politics and economics since 1974. The role Canadian peacekeepers played in Cyprus and efforts to bring lasting peace through a bizonal bicommunal federation.
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Season 5
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Episode 5
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41:10
Cyprus: An Island Divided. Episode Four: The Cypriot Diaspora
The 1974 invasion created many Cypriot refugees – both Greek and Turkish. This episode examines the Cypriot diaspora across the globe, how it maintains its ethnicity and ties with the island.
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Season 5
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Episode 4
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59:20
Cyprus: An Island Divided. Episode Three - 1974.
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.
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Season 5
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Episode 3
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47:26
Cyprus: An Island Divided. Episode Two - Nation Building
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.
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Season 5
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Episode 2
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40:59
Cyprus: An Island Divided. Episode One: Intro to Cyprus
Everything you need to know about Cyprus: its distinctiveness, culture, history and how it fits into a larger Hellenic world.
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Season 5
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Episode 1
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41:50
Edo Polytechnio: Episode Eight - The Metapolitefsi
The aftermath of the Athens Polytechnic student uprising and the return to democracy.
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34:18
Edo Polytechnio: Episode Seven - The Student Occupation
On November 14, 1973, students barricade themselves inside the Athens Polytechnio. In the end, there would be bloodshed, but history was made.
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29:37
Edo Polytechnio: Episode 6 - The Culture of Resistance
How people in the arts reacted to the military dictatorship and how counterculture tried to drown out that resistance.
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25:25
Edo Polytechnio: Episode Five - Resistance in the Diaspora
As many Greeks flee the military dictatorship, places like Toronto take on an important role in the resistance.
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33:04
Edo Polytechnio: Episode Four - Protest and Resistance
Trying to protest the new military dictatorship was a dangerous thing to do. How the Colonels silenced their opponents...
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Season 4
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Episode 4
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28:47
Edo Polytechnio: Episode Three - The Military Seizes Power
Greeks awake on Friday, April 21, 1967 to a new reality .
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Season 4
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Episode 3
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21:57
Edo Polytechnio: Episode Two - The Road to 1967
To understand the student occupation of the Athens Polytechnio, you have to understand Greece in the Post-WWII years.
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Season 4
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Episode 2
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28:14
Edo Polytechnio: Episode One - Introduction
Hosts Bill Molos and Sandra Gionas start the 50th anniversary retrospective journey into the events at the Athens Polytechnio in November 1973.
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Season 4
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Episode 1
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26:25
Exodus: The Stories of 1922 - Episode Five "A New Greece"
Exodus: The Stories of 1922 is a five-part podcast exploring the Great Catastrophe, a seminal chapter in Greek history which led to the expulsion of Greeks from Asia Minor and Thrace. Learn the entire story of the Asia Mi...
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Season 3
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Episode 5
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1:06:41
Exodus: The Stories of 1922 - Episode Four "Strangers"
Exodus: The Stories of 1922 is a five-part podcast exploring the Great Catastrophe, a seminal chapter in Greek history which led to the expulsion of Greeks from Asia Minor and Thrace. Learn the entire story of the As...
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Season 3
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Episode 4
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59:46
Exodus: The Stories of 1922 - Episode Three "Uprooted"
Exodus: The Stories of 1922 is a five-part podcast exploring the Great Catastrophe, a seminal chapter in Greek history which led to the expulsion of Greeks from Asia Minor and Thrace. Learn the entire story of the As...
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Season 3
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Episode 3
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1:05:32
Exodus: The Stories of 1922 - Episode Two "Ta Meri Mas/Our Homelands"
Exodus: The Stories of 1922 is a five-part podcast exploring the Great Catastrophe, a seminal chapter in Greek history which led to the expulsion of Greeks from Asia Minor and Thrace. Learn the entire st...
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Season 3
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Episode 2
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50:57
Exodus: The Stories of 1922 - Episode One "Loss"
Exodus: The Stories of 1922 is a five-part podcast exploring the Great Catastrophe, a seminal chapter in Greek history which led to the expulsion of Greeks from Asia Minor and Thrace. Learn the entire story of the Asi...
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Season 3
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Episode 1
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1:00:54
KORE 670 - Episode Two
KORE 670: The Podcast is a two-part podcast accompanying the Kore 670 Exhibit (March 12-September 25, 2022) at the Royal Ontario Museum. This podcast is produced by the Hellenic Heritage Foundation (HHF), the lead patron of the exhibit.
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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36:36
KORE 670 - Episode One
KORE 670: The Podcast is a two-part podcast accompanying the Kore 670 Exhibit (March 12-September 25, 2022) at the Royal Ontario Museum. This podcast is produced by the Hellenic Heritage Foundation (HHF), the lead patron of the exhibit. <...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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22:05
The Idea of Greece Episode Seven: The Founding of a Nation
The Idea of Greece is a seven-part podcast exploring the Greek Revolution of 1821. This podcast is produced by the Hellenic Heritage Foundation (HHF) and hosted by Georgia Balogiannis. The series is also under the auspices of the Greece 2021 Co...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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41:25
The Idea of Greece Episode Six: Philhellenes and the Greek Revolution
The Idea of Greece is a seven-part podcast exploring the Greek Revolution of 1821. This podcast is produced by the Hellenic Heritage Foundation (HHF) and hosted by Georgia Balogiannis. The series is also under the auspices of the Greece 2021 Co...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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42:46
The Idea of Greece Episode Five: Women of the Revolution
The Idea of Greece is a seven-part podcast exploring the Greek Revolution of 1821. This podcast is produced by the Hellenic Heritage Foundation (HHF) and hosted by Georgia Balogiannis. The series is also under the auspices of the Greece 2021 Co...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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42:38
The Idea of Greece Episode Four: The Heroes of The Revolution
The Idea of Greece is a seven-part podcast exploring the Greek Revolution of 1821. This podcast is produced by the Hellenic Heritage Foundation (HHF) and hosted by Georgia Balogiannis. The series is also under the auspices of the Greece 2021 Co...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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31:36
The Idea of Greece Episode Three: The Brutality of War
The Idea of Greece is a seven-part podcast exploring the Greek Revolution of 1821. This podcast is produced by the Hellenic Heritage Foundation (HHF) and hosted by Georgia Balogiannis. The series is also under the auspices of the Greece 2...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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40:43
