Mastro-Frans from Doxato, Drama, made every child’s dream come true by creating toy cars from scratch. His son, Petros-Viktor, recalls his first rides, the reactions of the local community, and the joy of his friends when it was their turn to drive.
Narrator: Petros Matziaris
Researcher: Vasiliki Chatziefthimiou
Podcast Creation: Fenia Chala
Sound Design: Dimitris Palaiogiannis
Sound Editing: Giannis Konstas
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.