Istorima

For more than forty years, Zacharias Vrelianakis has been travelling around the world looking for vinyl records. His shop in an arcade in Monastiraki is frequented daily by fanatical collectors, passers-by, tourists, and small children, all united by their love of music. Interviewee:...

Anna grew up on Ikaria, enjoying the freedom and carefree spirit that an island offers. However, her life became more challenging during her teenage years when she realized that she was attracted to girls. Narration: Lazaretou Anna, Haris PagonidouResearcher: Xirou DespinaPodcast Creation:...

Journalist Georgia Lagou shares her experience from the war zone in Ukraine, from the besieged Odessa to the revelation of the massacre in Bucha. Narrator: Georgia LagouResearcher: Anastasia ChatzikyriakouPodcast Creation: Fenia ChalaSound Design: George RamantanisSound Editing: Giannis Anagnostatos Istorima is ...

Series: The Occupation through the Eyes of Its Children On the other side of the swamp, Sophia, Eleni, and Roxani—three girls of different ages—live in three different villages amphitheatrically surrounding Edessa. Growing up in places besieged by continuous and varied hostilities, each of them is ...

Istorima reversed series Beniamin is a young Pomak from Xanthi. During his school years, his heritage made him feel different from the other children. His mother, Emine, also felt different when she decided to stop wearing the headscarf, which brought her into conflict with her family. Through their...

A mother has been fighting for decades to save her drug-addicted daughter from death. Narrator: The narrator requested anonymityResearcher: Zoí AngelakopoulouPodcast Creation: Stavros VlahosSound Design: Alex RetsisSound Editing: Spyros LymperopoulosPhotographic Shots: Stefanos Bertakis Istorima ...

Christos Markou, an old Spatanean and passionate wine maker, remembers the old Spata, the work in the fields and vineyards, but above all he remembers the rhythm, the smells and the colors of the harvest season as he experienced it as a child. Narrator: Christos MarkouInterview: Fenia...

Dinos Papachristou narrates his life and his two great loves: cinema Attikon and football. A prolific scorer of the team Aititos Spaton, member of the team since its his birth, he looks back on the adventures on and off the court. Narrator: Dinos PapachristouInterview: Fenia...

Series: Stories of coming of age From Athens to New York and back. A series of unlikely coincidences, a near-death experience and a great love affair lead Vassilis Bourtsalas to run his own life. Narrator: Vassilis BourtsalasInterview-Script: Andreas PappasPodcast Creation: Andreas...

In 2009 Anna Ellis, a lawyer from Boston, during a road trip to Greece, accidentally visits the village of Zitsa, looking for a house for couch surfers. There she meets Kostas, her host, who owns the village bakery. The next 24 hours change her life forever. Narrator: Anna Ellis Researcher:...

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 ... Read more

A place where time did not count, a meeting place, a library: Chrysoula and her partner open a clock shop at Antigonidon street in Thessaloniki and in just 12 square meters, they discover a whole world. Narrator: Chrysoula PapadopoulouResearcher: Sissy PapadopoulouPodcast Creation:...

In February 2011, armed assailants robbed two banks in Fthiotida. This was followed by a cinematic chase by police officers, with a shootout and a deadly outcome. Narrator: Christos VlachosResearcher: George KaragiorgosPodcast Creation: Stavros VlachosSound Design: Dimitris PalaiogiannisAudio...

Istorima reversed series Istorima series reversed Vivi never met her grandfather, Giorgos, and her grandmother, Paraskevi. All he had heard was that they were lost in the wreck of the Atlantic Empress, in 1979. Growing up, Vivi realized that she knew almost nothing about her mother's family, as...

Series: The Unknown Story Behind a Photograph Persecution, murders, attacks, traffic accidents: Giorgos Megas, a motor police officer, talks about his experiences the last 30 years on the road. Narrator: Giorgos MegasResearcher: Spyros KarampikasPodcast Creation: Stavros VlachosSound...

Growing up in Italy, Ariana felt an inexplicable attraction to Ancient Greece. She loved Ariadne’s myth and saw the princess as her alter ego. Following her personal “thread”, Ariadne is now a digital nomad living in Rhodes. Interviewee: Arianna MagnaniInterview by: Demie Hadji...

Kostas Gkorogias joins the army in '48 in the middle of the Civil War and ends up fighting for two years with the National Army. Until the day Napalm bombs hit the mountains of Epirus and Macedonia. Narrator: Kostas GkorogiasResearcher: Valantis ChiltasPodcast Creation: Andreas PappasSound Design:...

Everything that prison officer Tzortzis Hymas saw in the prisons of Trikala, Grevena, Larissa and Korydallos is shocking, but also often surprising. Narrator: Tzortzis HymasResearcher: Olga PaparazziPodcast Creation: Stavros VlachosSound Design: Iasonas TheofanouAudio Editing: Spyros...