The Voice behind Gargamel, Lion-O and Winnie [Greek audio]

His voice brings back childhood memories: Akindynos Gkikas is the man who gave substance to the Smurfs, Thundercats’ Lion-O, Winnie the Pooh and many more classic characters from kids’ TV shows in the ’90s.
The Greek actor is now offering us a tour into the magical world of voice acting.

Interviewee: Akindynos Gkikas
Interview by Haris Pagonidou
Podcast Creation: Haris Pagonidou
Sound Recording: Dimitris Paleogiannis
Sound Editing: Dimitris Papadakis
Photos: Christos Andropoulos

Istorima is the largest project for recording and preserving oral histories of Greece. More than 1,000 young researchers find narrators listen, collect and preserve stories of people from all over Greece: Stories of their hometowns, stories of love, stories that changed Greece or defined it, modern or old stories. Stories that are not recorded in the history books and that could easily be lost in time. It was created by the journalist Sofia Papaioannou and the historian Katherine Fleming and is implemented with a founding grant from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF), as part of its initiative to Restart and Empower Youth (see more on www.snf.org). More than 20,000 stories are gradually being published in full on www.archive.istorima.org. Excerpts of the stories are published in the form of podcasts, videos, or written stories on www.istorima.org.