“This is Xanthi!” The voice of Kyriakos Pantazidis resonated on the “air” via makeshift transmitters used for Medium wave broadcasting. Late at night, so as not to interfere with television sets’ reception signal, and always with the fear of being detected by the police’s radio direction-finder. “Akis the Governor” recalls how a group of schoolmates, genuine radio lovers, became “Amateur Radio station broadcasters”.
Narrator: Kyriakos Pantazidis
Researcher: Giorgos Kyriakidis
Podcast Creation: Fenia Chala
Sound Design: Iasonas Theofanou
Sound Editing: Enes Achmet Kechagia
| 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 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. |