Hatzidakis becomes director of the radio station "Third Program"

"We seek to change the submissive relationship between listener and radio that existed up until now. To invigorate the listener with awakening stimuli concerning intellect and art," he said in an interview for the Third Program. Indeed, in the seven years that followed, a public radio station focused on classical music managed to mature into a vibrant and popular center of culture, completely avant-garde compared to the time's established cultural and political norms.  With innovative shows such as "Comments of the Third" and "Lilipoupolis," with significant musical and cultural events, with influential artists and intellectuals as broadcast producers, the radio station Third Program during Manos Hatzidakis' years (1975-1981) aspired to resist the "barbarism" of its era with excellence and cultural truth as its weapons.