Christos suggests to Natela that they create a podcast about her life, and during their meetings, they could also play piano pieces for four hands, as they had previously given a small concert together, which often returns nostalgically to their memories. Natela recounts her upbringing in the Soviet Union and what led her to immigrate to Greece.
Narration: Natela Ichuadze, Christos Georgoudakis
Research-Interview: Christos Georgoudakis
Podcast Creation: Christos Georgoudakis
Sound Design: Spyros Lymberopoulos
Sound Editing: Spyros Lymberopoulos
Photography: Christos Georgoudakis
Istorima is the biggest 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.