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Tasos Sakellaropoulos, head of the Historical Archives of the Benaki Museum, tells us about King Paul, the main points of his life, his death and especially the aftermath that followed. What was the political climate on March 6, 1964, the day he breathed his last? Was Constantine ready to succeed him and how was the role of Frederick upgraded? How did the death of Sophocles Venizelos, almost a month earlier, make things even more difficult for the political life of the country? The tragedies that followed after the death of Paul I, mainly with the apostasy and later with the imposition of the dictatorship, rightly raise a basic question: would all this have happened if he had lived a few more years? A series of nine episodes about the developments brought about by the deaths of politicians and activists in the Greek 20th century. Kostas Maniatis discusses with historians and academics the most important consequences that these deaths brought to politics, public life and international relations. Persons selected, not only based on the importance of what they did while they were alive, but mainly based on the importance of the developments that their death brought. A NEWS24/7 Podcast series, with historical advisor Christos Triantafyllou, Historian and Lecturer at the University of West Attica