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I Will Sing You Seven Songs
Gianna Triantafylli
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Troumba: The “sinful” district [Greek Audio]
Vasilis Pisimisis has been working in the market of Piraeus since he was fourteen years old and knows Troumba as few do. He has been systematically researching it, gathering the fascinating stories of the women and men who saw the legendary “red light” district with its cabarets as their own shelter or ...
Narratives with Maria Karagiannaki | Heroic Figures of 1922: Asa Kent Jennings | 14 Feb. 2023
The show “Narratives“, curated and presented by Maria Karagiannaki, presents the chronicle of the presence in Smyrna of the American Methodist pastor, Asa Kent Jennings, who made history as the man who saved more than 15% of the Greeks of Asia Minor in September 1922. When the civilized world ...
Never lose hope: A young Greek Jew faces the Nazis [Greek Audio]
Maurice Gormezano was seventeen years old when the Nazis began deporting Greek Jews to concentration camps. He and his family try to escape by hiding for years in the attic crawl space of a house in the northern suburb of Psichiko. Interviewee: Maurice GormezanoInterview by: Tryphon KlisProducer:...
Captured by pirates [Greek Audio]
Giannis Polyzos, a seafarer with a life filled with storms, adventures, and romance, was fated to spend his last voyage as a prisoner. Narrator: Giannis PolyzosResearcher: Evangelia TaktikouPodcast Creation: Andreas PappasSound Design: Giorgos RamantanisSound Editing: Nikolas...
Rendez-vous in Athens: A promise by the Greek women of Constantinople [Greek Audio]
Eva Melachrinou was a young child when the voices of the crowd, the rowdy noise of violence and the sound of the fire from September 1955 in Istanbul reached her bedroom. It was the beginning of a series of persecutions against the Greeks which led a group of classmates to make a promise. A promise...
The icon that survived to tell the tale
During the massacres following the Greco-Turkish War of 1922, which resulted in the eradication of the Greek population in Anatolia, Stella Michalaki’s grandmother manages to save an icon of the Virgin Mary that continues to evoke memories of persecution. Interviewee: Stella MichalakiField R...
Soap from the time of Napoleon [Greek Audio]
Istorima is the largest 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 ... Read more
Heroic Figures of 1922: T. Norito | 07.10.2023
Maria Karagiannaki presents, as part of the series of broadcasts on the Asia Minor Catastrophe, the first part of the tribute to the heroic figures of 1922. She was guided in this tribute by the award-winning, in Greece and abroad, animation film, "Tokei Maru", by director and animator Zachos Samoladas. His...
Trapped for Seven Hours [Greek Audio]
Despite the torrential rain, Roula sets out to go to work. She could never have imagined that in a few hours she would be struggling for her life. Narrator: Apostolos PatounisResearcher: Marina BadiouPodcast Creation: Charis PagonidouSound Design: Dimitris PalaiogiannisSound Editing: Dimitris...
Silent tracks – Ep.5: The story of Esther Cohen | 06 Nov. 2023
Esther Cohen, in a heartbreaking narrative, describes the death march from her ancestral home town of Ioannina to Poland and the Auschwitz extermination camp. An important recording that adds to the already invaluable ERT Archive, which sheds light on unknown aspects of a once populous and thriving...
The Miracle in the Fire [Greek Audio]
As the flames approach the village of Prokopi in Northern Evia in August 2021, something takes place that is bound to remain in the memories of residents as "the miracle of St. John the Russian". Narrator: Apostolos BalatsosResearcher: Maria TzifiPodcast Creation: Effrosyni KyriaziSound...
My Battle with Depression [Greek Audio]
A student, the son of immigrants from Albania, talks about his struggle with depression, his attempt to end his life and the constant struggle against stereotypes and "shoulds". Narrator: The narrator has asked to be pseudonymizedResearcher: Vasilis KoutsogiannisPodcast Creation: Maya FilippopoulouSound...
Time in Greece with guest documentary filmmaker Athina Krikelli
Internationally award-winning documentary filmmaker Athina Krikeli carries a camera on her back, filming the affected areas of Thessaly inch by inch, these last few days. She conveys to Nikolas Angelidis and the show ''Time in Greece'', everything she has experienced through the eyes of the residents...
Saved by the sea and Turkish delight
Turkish delight maker Dina Sykourti-Andreiomenou has been stirring copper cauldrons of Turkish delight for countless years, from her childhood. One thought accompanies every movement of the spoon: the school she was forced to stop. Interviewee: Dina Sykourti-AndreiomenouInterview...
The Third Girl [Greek Audio]
Is mother's love a given? Despina, the "unwanted" third girl of a Cretan family in the 40s, recounts the story of her relationship with her mother and how it has left its mark on her life. Narrator: Despina Savrani Researcher: Margarita Koronaiou Podcast Creation: Andreas...
Hiding Communists [Greek Audio]
Istorima is the largest 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 ... Read more
Working as a croupier in an illegal casino [Greek Audio]
Istorima is the largest 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 ... Read more
Five months pregnant in the wreck of “Samina” [Greek Audio]
In September of 2000, Roula Bairami, on her voyage back to her island, Naxos, finds herself sinking on Express Samina. When she is forced to fall into the sea to save herself, her thoughts are on the child she is carrying... Narrator: Roula Bairami Researcher: Georgia Bairami Podcast...