In 1971 a rich uncle brings a television to Manolis Bardanis’ house, the first television in the village of Apeiranthos of Naxos. Immediately, all the neighbors gather to see this strange acquisition.
Narrator: Manolis Bardanis
Researcher: Efthymia Papagiannopoulou
Podcast creation: Maya Filippopoulou
Sound Design: Iasonas Theofanou
Audio Editing: Spyros Lymperopoulos
Video Direction/Photographs: Stefanos Bertakis, Magda Martzoukou
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 place, love stories, stories that have changed us or defined us, stories modern or old. Stories that are not recorded in history books and that could be lost to time. It was created by journalist Sofia Papaioannou and 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 in www.snf.org). These stories, over 20,000 of them, 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.