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Chrysanthos Tassis, Assistant Professor of the Department of Social Policy at the Demokriteio University of Thrace and author, among others, of the book "PASOK: The Rise and Fall of a Hegemonic Party", talks to us about the end of Andreas Papandreou and what followed his death . His health problems that preceded him, the "Movement of the Four" that began to question him and the moment when PASOK started thinking about the next day. Kostas Simitis and Akis Tsochatzopoulos, the great conference of 1996 and the people who were sidelined after his death. How did his absence affect the parliamentary left of the time and the New Democracy? The dominance of the trend of modernization in the political scene as well as in Greek society. A series of nine episodes about the developments brought about by the deaths of politicians and activists in the Greek 20th century. Costas Maniatis discusses with historians and academics the most important consequences these deaths brought to politics, public life and international relations. Persons chosen, not only on the basis of the importance of what they did while they were alive, but mainly on the basis of the importance of the developments that their death brought. A NEWS24/7 Podcast series, with historical consultant Christos Triantafillou, Historian and Teacher at the University of Western Attica.