Amidst the aftermath of the Greek Civil War and the changing dynamics of the global Cold War, over 3,000 Greek children were brought to the United States and adopted through fast-track procedures, ranging from legal to highly irregular. Was it a humanitarian rescue or a quid pro quo? Or perhaps both?...
Amletos, Graikoi and Botides: Giorgos Rarakos has a fond recollection of the first steps he took in music, wearing the uniform of the Old Philharmonic of Corfu.
Narrator: Giorgos Rarakos
Researcher: Mariliza Vlastou
Podcast Creation: Maya Filippopoulou
Sound Design: Iasonas...
In Mount Olympus of Karpathos in 1983, the wives of the seafarers make their own Epitaph.
Narrator: Manolis Bardanis
Researcher: Euthymia Papagiannopoulou
Podcast Creation: Maya Philippopoulou
Sound Design: Nicholas Konstantinou
Sound Editing: Thanos Zampoukas
Music: William...
Climber Antonis Sykaris, who has climbed Mount Everest and four of the highest peaks of more than 8,000 meters in the world, talks about success and the risk of death.
Narrator: Evangeli Farini
Researcher: Maria - Christina Apostolopoulou
Podcast Creation: Andreas...
Konstantinos is at his family’s get-together for Easter in Crete, when he suddenly feels severe chest pain.
Narrator: Konstantinos Sagkriotis
Research:Katerina Vagionaki
Podcast Creation: Stavros Vlachos
Sound Design: George Ramantanis
Sound Editing: Dimitris Papadakis
Video D...
Kyriakoula Yiannakari is one of the last living speakers of "Whistling," the whistled language of the village of Antia, in Euboea. She tells us about the language, and about her life in the village where people communicate by whistling.
Interviewee: Kyriaki Giannakari
Field Reporter: Stavros...
During the post-civil war years in Thessaloniki, a seemingly forbidden love arises between a young communist and a girl from a royal family. What happens when their families discover their relationship?
Narrator: Evangeli Farini
Researcher: Maria - Christina Apostolopoulou
Podcast...
In 1968, Aristidis Pagratidis was executed in Thessaloniki, as the perpetrator of a series of murders and assaults that had appalled the city. Decades later, former public prosecutor Konstantinos Logothetis, investigating the case, elaborates on his serious doubts about who was the real perpetrator,...
Kyriakoula Giannakari, one of the last surviving speakers of “Sfyria”, the whistling language of the village of Antia in Evia, talks about the language and life in the village.
Narrator: Kyriaki Giannakari
Interview: Stavros Vlachos
Podcast Creation: Stavros Vlachos
Sound Design: Ias...
The first tattoo he did on himself, at the tender age of eleven years old. Spyros Agathos, Corfu's oldest tattoo artist, on a journey of indelible ink.
Narrator: Spyros Agathos
Researcher: Maria Makri
Podcast Creation: Maya Filippopoulou
Sound Design: George Ramantanis
Sound...
In 1971, fifteen-year-old Vergina elopes with her beloved in the cotton fields of Emathia
Interviewee: Platioti Vergina
Field Reporter: Stefanopoulou Anatoli
Producer: Daphne Matziaraki
Sound Designer: Dimitris Palaiogiannis
Video Director / Photos: Mike Bekos
Music...
Imitations, pranks, and teasing: a way of amusing himself at school, which became a way to make a living. Through an interview he gave to his daughter, Giorgos Mitsikostas reminds us that laughter is the best medicine.
Narrator: Giorgos Mitsikostas
Researcher: Martha Mitsikosta
Podcast...
Tanya, a trans woman, recounts her adventurous life: the persecutions at the time of the Junta, the great love she experienced, and the gender-affirming surgery she had in Casablanca.
Narrator: The narrator requested pseudonymisation
Podcast Creation:Maya Filippopoulou
Sound Design: Nikolas...
In 1948, during the Civil War, a family in Serres was preparing for dinner, when the battle of Skotoussa broke out. Koula Alexandridou vividly remembers the battle imagery and the subsequent “clearance” of those characterized as communists in her village, by groups of the Field Security Units (MAY).
Narrator: Kou...
Fifteen-year-old Vergina elopes with her lover in the cotton farms of Imathia in 1971.
Narrator: Vergina Platioti
Researcher: Anatoli Stefanopoulou
Podcast Creation: Daphne Matziaraki
Sound Design - Editing: Dimitris Palaiogiannis
Video Direction: Mike...
1983, Kastania Arta: a young girl goes on her first date. The consquences are more serious than she could have ever imagined.
Interviewee: Lambrini Vazoura
Producer: Stavros Vlachos
Sound Designer: Iasonas Theofanou
Sound Editor: Michael Ikonomidis
Video Director: Daphne Matziaraki
Music...
In close-knit communities, George Baras discovers that the rivalries of an amateur match are also taken outside the football field. How dangerous is it to be the one who controls the game?
Narrator: George Baras
Researcher: Stefania Papoutsi
Podcast Creation: Andreas Pappas
Sound...
Fustanella garments for shepherds, gold coins for matchmakers, and trunks for immigrants: all have passed through the grocery store of Kostas Kanakis or "Maleas", located on the old shopping street of Leonidio for nine generations.
Narrator: Kostas Kanakis
Researcher:...
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