Alex Andreou’s Podyssey

7. AESOP I - Virtue Signaller or Fake News Merchant?

44 min • 13 juli 2025

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Welcome to Podyssey with Alex Andreou. Each week we will take one myth, one concept, person, place, or theme from Ancient Greece, take it apart, figure out its inner workings, trace its influence, juice it for its wisdom, reimagine, update and put it back together - all shiny and new! 

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Stories have had a moral, for as long as we have told stories. This week, Aesop; A crowd-sourced literary celebrity. What is the fact and what is the fiction? And why it matters.


Written and presented by Alex Andreou

Expert contributions by Alexandra Angeletaki-Røe, Debbie Challis, Linda Marric, and Dr Ruth Smith

Exec. Producers Naomi Smith & Kenny Campbell

Music by Marianna Sangita

Artwork by Simona Kanellou

For Cooler Heads, in collaboration with Sandstone Global


NOTES


MUSIC 

Podyssey Theme: “To Margoudi ki o Alexandris”, Marianna Sangita, 2018 (with permission)

⁠https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-LAVj5l9Uc⁠


César Cui: "Orientale"; Capitol Symphony Orch, Carmen Dragon 1958

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDx-kRbXoCU


Xiomara Alfaro: "Angelitos Negros" 1957

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_9XyHOHiLw


Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue, Winifred Atwell 1957

https://archive.org/details/lp_winifred-atwell-plays-gershwin_winifred-atwell-ted-heath-and-his-music/disc1/01.01.+Rhapsody+In+Blue.mp3


Charlie Gore: "Absolutely Free", 1953

https://archive.org/details/78_absolutely-free_charlie-gore-charlie-gore-gore-young_gbia0484950b


Manos Hadjidakis: "The Myth", Christiana, 1960

https://archive.org/details/lp_ilios-thalassa.mp3


Richard Strauss: Dance of the Seven Veils from "Salome", Paul Paray, 1959

https://archive.org/details/lp_the-heart-of-the-opera_antal-dorati-paul-paray-detroit-symphony-o/disc1/02.01.+Dance+Of+The+Seven+Veils+From+%22Salome%22.mp3


Manouche: "Miri Louloudi", 1989 (with permission)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMtzBs5bSIE

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