A radio pirate from Tinos island [Greek Audio]

In the 70s, in the village Pyrgos of Tinos island, a sculpture student opens the “pirate” amateur radio station “Unknown X”. How many different music genres can possibly fit into a single music show? How can song dedications to people over the radio lead to fights and breakups? And how unknown was “Unknown X” on the island after all?

Interviewee: Charis Koutsouris
Rerearcher: Alexandra Anogiannaki
Podcast Creation: Charis Pagonidou
Sound Designer: Dimitris Paleogiannis
Sound Editor: Spyros Lymperopoulos
Photos by Haris Koutsouris

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 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.