driving through the greek landscape with this music on is one of the most wonderful things you can do. try it. greetings to greece

Thanks a lot. Now I have to hunt for her CD's..

I haven't read all comments yet, apologies. The voice narrating sounds like Anthony Quinn. This is a fairly old documentary but I never thought a foreign channel would be interested in the genre of rembetika. Pleasant surprise. However, one the songs we hear, "armenaki" belongs to the folk category, the nisiotika, not rembetika. Better technical advice was required for the production team as it's difficult for a foreign crew to know all.

Eleftheria Arvanitaki she is very famous now in Greece

Does anybody can tell me where in Piraeus we can find this sort of musik?

We who are writeing on theese sides have not live during the time all this happends in Asia Minor, for that it should be better to keep quite !!!

i beg your pardon lofgt. what the hell were greeks doing in the Turkish land? I dont think they would have been killed had they stayed home.

allies = brits

Fascinating! Great job by BBC and thanks for posting all this-

Thankyou.

Smyrna was found by the Amazon,one reckons Smyrna is the name of an Amazon queen.During Ottoman times Greeks, Levantines, Turks, Armenians and Jews mostly lived in peace in the city. The neckless of Izmir (Kordon) was designed by a Greek; Polycarpos Vitalis along with others.. Now Turkish are proud of Izmir because it is still a beautiful city- probably like the Amazon that found it.Such a pity we couldnt have all lived in peace.It would have been more beautiful that way.

who is the lady singing the first song? and what is the name of the song? This is very similar to the turkish music. At the same time, so much different..

my cousins name is arvanitakis...wow

0:47 arvanitaki?

@pirasa5 omg , asia minor is a greek land , a 400 year parenthesys is nothing vompared to eternity , turks homelanf are the golturk mountains somewhere in the middle of mongolia in case u miss the facts ...

be proud. No one will tell you not to be proud. It is a turkish city , it was not always though. Greeks first inhabited Smyrni. They were speaking greek and they were living there for many many years.

i beg your pardon lofgt. what the hell were greeks doing in the Turkish land? I dont think they would have been killed had they stayed home.

geia sou re eleftheria terastia...

you speak the language of truth..greeks and turks are brothers..we were always brothers..historically..and as goodtimes said british were always the factor for economic and political problems..geia sou kardasi..