Three days before the coup of 1967, Andreas Markou, a member of the left-wing Lambrakis Youth movement, paints ‘Down with fascism’ on walls. With the imposition of the dictatorship, he is sent into internal exile on Gyaros, the barren island with the infamous prison that, today, is a symbol of commemoration.
Interviewee: Andreas Markou
Interview by: Fenia Chala
Podcast creator: Fenia Chala
Sound Designer: Dimitris Patsaros
Sound Editor: Spyros Lymperopoulos
Photos: Giorgos Kapsalis
Translator: Eva Kesserling
Voiceover: Duncan Skinner
Istorima is the biggest project of recording and preserving oral histories of Greece. Over 1,000 young researchers find narrators, listen, collect and save stories of people from all over Greece : Stories of their place, stories of love, stories that changed us or defined us, stories modern or old. Stories that are not recorded in the history books and that could be lost in time. Istorima is the co-creation of the journalist Sofia Papaioannou and the historian Katherine Fleming and is implemented with a founding donation from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) as part of his Youth Reboot and Empowerment initiative (learn more at www.snf.org). The more than 20,000 stories are being published in the form of podcasts, videos or written stories at www.istorima.org