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We didn't do anything on the fires in Greece last night, we should have, I hope we can speak to some members of the Greek blogosphere for next week's programme. However, I'm finding language a considerable barrier, so I'm going asking our blog readers to see if we can put together a sampling of citizen coverage of the .

We did make some progress, before going to air - thanks to Clark Boyd for some links he forwarded:

One that I'm adding to my RSS Reader is written by a leading foreign policy expert. Let me quote part of his blog:

I did cry a lot this past weekend watching the human suffering as my country was ablaze. It feels like we are under attack from either ruthless profit-makers that put fire to forest lands late at night in the hope that these might soon be converted to plots for future homes or from ideologically-motivated individuals aiming to weaken the country's democratic institutions or at least to bring about the government鈥檚 downfall in the general election slated for 16 September.
As a result, in this fantastic yet real world, one feels both terror and rage. The terror comes about due to the magnitude of the catastrophe which has stretched to its limits the state鈥檚 ability to cope (thank God for the help for allies from the EU and elsewhere). 鈥淢y God, can things get any worse than this?鈥�, one wonders.

It is, I think, still unclear who is behind the fires, but the post is a moving account by an powerful writer. Clark also pointed to commentary among the firefighting blogging community. , but there must be European firefighting blogs with something to add from closer to events?

As you would expect, though sadly to late for us, Global Voices, today published with links to some excellent websites including

To reiterate out plea though. I'm sure there is a very healthy blogging community writing in the Greek language and alphabet which I'm missing because the Greek blogs, are alas, unintelligible to me. As a result of my oh so deplorably English ignorance of other languages, I fear I'm only scratching the surface of

If you can read those blogs, consider this an open invitation to point us to the best writing about the fires and what is being said in the Greek blogosphere. If you are a Greek speaker and able to talk us through the Greek blogs covering the fires, we'll feature it in next weeks show