Repeat after me: The “Whistling” teacher [English voice over] | Sunday 05 March 2023

Panagiotis Tzanavaris is the only teacher of “Whistling,” an ancient language spoken (or rather, whistled) in the village of Antia in Euboea. He has dedicated his life to trying to save the language from extinction.

Interviewee: Panagiotis Tzanavaris
Field Reporter: Stavros Vlachos
Producer: Stavros Vlachos
Sound Designer: Iasonas Theofanou
Sound Editor: Spyros Lymperopoulos
Video Director / Photos: Daphne Matziaraki
Voiceover: Antonis Miriagos

Istorima is the bigest project of recording and preserving oral histories of Greece. Over 1,000 young researchers find narrators, listen, collect and save stories of people from all over Greece : Stories of their place, stories of love, stories that changed us or defined us, stories modern or old. Stories that are not recorded in the history books and that could be lost in time. Istorima is the co-creation of the journalist Sofia Papaioannou and the historian Katherine Fleming and is implemented with a founding donation from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) as part of his Youth Reboot and Empowerment initiative (learn more at  www.snf.org). The more than 20,000 stories are being published in their entirety in stages at www.archive.istorima.org. Excerpts of the stories are published in the form of podcasts, videos or written stories at www.istorima.org