Reporting Greece
The Documentary Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 13 February 2024
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Greece is the birthplace of democracy. But how free is Greece’s media? Nikos Papanikolaou travels to his home town, Athens, to speak to journalists who have had their phones hacked by an advanced new spyware, been sued for defamation, and been under surveillance by the Greek national intelligence agency. In the south of the city he visits the widow of the an investigative journalist – murdered just outside their family home. Nikos also hears from Members of the European Parliament – those who want the EU to withhold funds until Greece improves the position for journalists – and those outraged by the idea that Greece does not already have a free media.
Presented by Nikos Papanikolaou Produced by Giles Edwards.
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| 0:00.0 | In 1969, a plan to show support for an anti-racism protest turned the lives of 14 promising |
| 0:07.0 | black student athletes upside down. |
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| 0:19.0 | You're listening to the documentary from the BBC World Service. I'm Nikoswapanikolau and welcome to my hometown |
| 0:27.4 | Athens, the capital of Greece. I'm in the city center and I'm surrounded by tourists who have come here to see the city's |
| 0:37.2 | ancient monuments and because of its history as the birthplace of democracy. |
| 0:50.0 | But I'm here for a less democratic reason. Greece is becoming a much more difficult place for journalists like me to work freely. |
| 0:56.0 | Over the last few years it has been a series of scandals and there hasn't been much progress in investigating them. |
| 1:06.0 | With court hearings you in the next few days, Athens, where most of Greek politics and the media are based is the place to be. |
| 1:17.0 | I'll be your guide around the city and I hope you'll join me |
| 1:21.0 | as I investigate an extraordinary tale of spying, murder and people who |
| 1:27.4 | use to reporting stories being at the very center of them. |
| 1:32.1 | And there is no more extraordinary story to start with than this one. |
| 1:37.0 | I am San Jose Skukakis, a Greek financial and banking editor editor working for domestic media in Greece and having active |
| 1:47.5 | collaboration with big foreign media like Financial Times and CNBC. |
| 1:52.1 | Back in 2020. like Financial Times and see NBC. |
| 1:53.0 | Back in 2020, Thalnasis was working on a number of stories with the Financial Times, a major |
| 2:00.4 | London-based newspaper. He began to notice something strange. My mobile |
| 2:07.0 | form start to act in a bizarre way. The battery was over fatigue and ran off rapidly. It was overheating. And the most strange thing was that when I called someone there was no any ring. They went directly in the line. |
| 2:23.0 | So I changed my battery, |
| 2:26.0 | but despite that, and the service that I did to my phone, |
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