Dimitris Kolovos managed to overcome a difficult time in his life thanks to Tolkien. Like Frodo, he felt the weight of the ‘ring’ he was carrying every day. Reading about the heroes and their internal struggles, what it means to fight for good, the light managed to vanquish the darkness within. His...
Thanos Alexandris discovers the dance floor of the “skyladiko” night clubs outside the big cities and becomes one with their crowd. Wild nights out, money squandered, bouncers, night club girls trying to get patrons to pay for drinks, by the author of the book "Because the Night".
Narrator: Tha...
A great love that overcame every hurdle thrown in its way, even the ravages of time.
Narrator: Maro Damianidou
Researcher: Chaidemeni Paltoglou
Podcast Creation: Maya Filippopoulou
Sound Design: Iasonas Theofanou, Dimitris Palaiogiannis
Sound Editing: Spyros Lymperopoulos
Photographs:...
Episode 4: The story of Wladyslaw Szpilman (part 2)
The episode is dedicated to Władysław (Władek) Szpilman, the master pianist who managed to survive initially inside the Warsaw Ghetto and then in the narrow periphery outside it throughout the war.
ERT and Voice of Greece listeners will ha...
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
In 1974, workers building a road in Parnitha, accidentally solve a thirty-year mystery: the mystery of the disappearance of seventeen shepherds from Legrena village during the German Occupation.
Narrator: Vangelis Dounas
Interview: Stavros Vlachos
Podcast creation: Stavros...
The traumatic experiences she went through as a child in the concentration camp at Bergen-Belsen left permanent emotional scars on Rina Revach. Decades later, she will go on a journey of salvation to the place where she learned what true horror means.
Interviewee: Rina Revach
Interview...
Elena Topalidou has experienced both the light and the dark side of dance. She gladly started ballet at the age of ten. In adolescence, she wrestled with extreme physical stress and an eating disorder. Later on, she excelled in some of the most important contemporary dance performances. Today, she is...
A great love is born in Sindirgi, Asia Minor, between a young man belonging to a well to do family in the region and a poor orphan girl. Their love surpasses all obstacles and they are preparing to get married. But the year is 1922 and the Asia Minor Disaster is approaching.
Narrator:...
The episode is dedicated to Władysław (Władek) Szpilman, the master pianist who managed to survive initially inside the Warsaw Ghetto and then in the narrow periphery outside it throughout the war.
ERT and Voice of Greece listeners will have the opportunity to hear Szpilman's shocking oral testimony re...
In September 1943, four-year-old Vasilis Papadopoulos witnesses the massacre at Viannos, Crete by the German Nazis, in which more than 20 villages were burned and 461 people of all ages were executed.
Narrator: Vasilis Papadopoulos
Researcher: Marili Papadopoulou
Podcast...
A schoolgirl in the 60s has the "misfortune" of being left-handed. A strict teacher, who dislikes all things "left", makes her student’s life unbearable with punishments, yelling and violent behavior.
Narrator: Popi Papageorgiou
Researcher: Eirini Kotseli
Podcast Creation: Haris Pagonidou
Sound D...
During the construction of the Athens Metro, the skull of child is discovered, who died during the plague in the 5th century BC. Using the skull as a base, Professor Manolis Paparigorakis, who was researching the appearance of ancient Greeks, began to reconstruct the face of the little Athenian, who...
In 2014, Depy Kourellou decided to start afresh in North Evia. Fascinated by the area’s nature, she and her sister, Nancy, began rescuing abandoned and abused horses and equines. Everything was going well, until the summer of 2021.
Narrator: Depy Kourellou
Researcher: Eva K...
Aristides Chairetis aka 'Galiaftis', from Anogia village in Crete explains how his love for nature, life and women made him one of the greatest folk musicians in the island.
Narrator: Aristides Chairetis (Gialaftis)
Researcher: Nikos Kallergis
Podcast creator: Stavros Vlachos
Sound designer:...
Episode 2: The Dark Room of Mauthausen
Yona was the eldest of four children born to a working-class Jewish family. The family lived in the Jewish quarter of Pabianice. Yona's father sold merchandise to Polish shops. When the Poles could not pay him for his goods, they would give him food for...
On the night of September 6, 1955, in Istanbul, Nikos Marousis can see the Turkish mob destroy the church in his neighborhood, amidst rapes and murders. Years later, in the course of his military service, he meets one of the culprits.
Narrator: Nikos Marousis
Researcher: Daphne Zachariadou
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An expatriate from Himare escapes from the oppressive everyday life of the Albanian regime, to face the inhospitable welcome in Greece that she so longed to come to know. Her love of all things Greek helps her overcome obstacles, but also brings her face to face with the Albanian police when she returns...
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