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Is mother’s love a given? Despina, the “unwanted” third girl of a Cretan family in the 40s, recounts the story of her relationship with her mother and how it has left its mark on her life.
Narrator: Despina Savrani
Researcher: Margarita Koronaiou
Podcast Creation: Andreas Pappas
Sound Design: Dimitris Patsaros
Sound Editing: Dimitris Papadakis
Photographs: Isidora Charmpila
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.