A radio documentary in two parts, dedicated to a great singer and woman, Katina Farasopoulou.
Katina, a refugee from Cappadocia, carried within her the pain of being uprooted.
This pain later took the form of a song, which took root in people’s souls.
Katina spoke to Thomas Sideris, a few weeks before she passed away, and her testimony is a unique piece of evidence.
A documentary chronicling memories from Cappadocia to Askites, Rhodope, through a unique voice that is now silenced forever.
(Research-documentation-presentation: Thomas Sideris, journalist @ERT/Human Geography PhD)
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