Series: Family Is…
The image of two women raising a child together in the ’90s seemed strange, even if these two women were not a couple but sisters. The child in question is Eleni, who grew up in a “typical society” from an “atypical family.” The love from her mother and aunt compensated for the loss of her father, transcending every stereotype.
Narrator: Eleni Linaki
Researcher: Zoe Angelakopoulou
Podcast Creation: Haris Pagonidou
Sound Design: Georgios Ramantanis
Sound Editing: Angelos Gourgouras
Istorima is the biggest 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