![Because the Night: Greek nightlife in the ’80s [Greek Audio]](https://vog.ert.gr/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/istorima_ertecho-400x400-1.jpg)
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: Thanos Alexandris
Researcher: Anna-Frantzeska Kokkinaki
Podcast Creation: Andreas Pappas
Sound Design: Dimitris Palaiogiannis
Sound Editing: Dimitris Papadakis
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.