I was the Athens Correspondent for Radio New Zealand of Wellington, New Zealand from 1995 to 2010.
The Morning Report of the radio network used the bulk of my reports including November 15, 1995 - Greece, December 5, 1995 - Greece, January 9, 1996 - Greek PM, January 17, 1996 - Papandreou, January 31, 1996 - Aegean, July 29, 1996 - Athens prison, November 14, 1996 - Drugs, December 6, 1996 - Strike, January 16, 1997 - Lyceum, September 8, 1997 - Olympics, October 2, 1997 - Gold, October 30, 1997 - Greece shipwreck, February 3, 1998 - Greece strike, December 16, 1998 - General strike, February 17, 1999 - Ocalan supporters, February 19, 1999 - Kurdish protests/Cabinet, March 29, 1999 - Embassy protest, September 8, 1999 - Athens earthquake, December 24, 1999 - Greek Christmas, April 11, 2000 - Election race, April 28, 2000 - Games preparation, July 12, 2000 - Wildfires-hot weather, September 28, 2000 - Express Samina sinking, September 29, 2000 - Divers waiting, April 27, 2001 - Nationwide 24 hour strike in Greece, December 13, 2001 - British plane spotters all freed, July 4, 2002 - Greek police arrest suspect from “17 November” organisation, July 19, 2002 - Police in Greece have made a major breakthrough, August 7, 2002 - Greek security have discovered a stockpile of weapons and explosives near Athens stadium, October 24, 2002 - Greece’s capital Athens has elected its first woman mayor, April 17, 2003 - Violent clashes close to a key European Union summit in Athens, June 23, 2003 - Explosives laden ship seized off Greece, December 19, 2002 - The mastermind of a Greek guerrilla group has been given the longest sentence in the country’s legal history, March 17, 2004 - Can the Athens Olympics be ready in 150 days?, April 29, 2004 - For the first time organisers of the Olympics have taken out insurance against the event not going ahead, May 6, 2004 - Bomb attack on Athens police station has intensified fears that the Olympic Games could be targeted, May 13, 2004 - Athens Olympics-Greeks still have plenty of issues on their plate, July 5, 2004 - Greece were crowned European champions for the first time when they beat Portugal 1-0 in final, July 6, 2004 - Greeks welcome country’s victorious soccer team at airport, July 15, 2004 - Greeks are being asked to pick up the slack and buy unsold Olympic Games tickets to avoid greeting the world with empty stadiums in a month’s time, August 7, 2004 - Contribution for Kim Hill Show, August 8, 2004 - Closing ceremony Athens Olympics, December 16, 2004 - Six hostages remain on board hijacked bus in Athens, August 15, 2005 - Plane crashes north of Athens, August 16, 2005 - Plane disaster in Greece, October 19, 2005 - H5N1 strain of bird flu may have reached EU, January 23, 2007 - Ancient Greek religious rites revived, July 26, 2007 - Heatwave sweeping south Eastern Europe, August 27, 2007 - Raging forest fires on the outskirts of ancient Olympia stopped, March 25, 2008 - Pro-Tibet demonstrators have disrupted the ceremonial lighting of the Olympic torch in Greece, June 9, 2008 - Earthquake in Greece, December 8, 2008 - Rioting in Greece sparked by fatal shooting of a teenage boy, December 10, 2008 - Greece is bracing itself for more violence, August 24, 2009 - Fires strike the suburbs of Athens, August 25, 2009 - Fires die down in Athens, February 11, 2010 - 24 hour strike by public sector working in Greece and May 6, 2010 - Three die in Athens riots.










RADIO NEW ZEALAND
1995-2010




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