Do youth bring achievements, or is it the other way around? The life of Stelios Prassas, who started running at the age of 59, resembles an extraordinary marathon, with the finish line being a love for life itself.
Narrator: Stelios Prassas
Researcher: Kalliopi Koniari
Podcast Creation: Andreas Pappas
Sound Design: Iason Theofanou
Audio Editing: Dimitris Papadakis
Photographic Snapshots: Isidora Harmpila
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.