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Greek Traditional Music
Maria Koutsimpiri
SCHEDULE VOICE OF GREECE

Istorima

Istorima 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)

I grew up in the movies (Greek Audio)
Aliki Vougiouklaki, Rena Vlahopoulou, Anthony Hopkins behind the cameras. In the cinema industry, Maro Karagiannopoulou has adventures, experiences tragicomic situations and disdain due to her gender, hard work and a great love. Narrator: Maro Karagiannopoulou Researcher: Eleni Peppa Podcast...
The lost work of El Greco (Greek Audio)
In the middle of the 16th century, painter Domenikos Theotokopoulos, who would later become known as El Greco, paints an icon of the Virgin Mary in Venetian-occupied Crete. Wars, revolutions, massacres and persecutions follow, the icon crosses the Aegean and no one knows its creator anymore. Until one...
I blow my bagpipes with my memories (Greek Audio)
War, separation and the hard life in the "mines of death", hundreds of meters underground, made Stratis Giagtzidis focus only on the important things in life. What has meaning, when nothing has meaning anymore? Narrator: Stratis Giagtzidis Researcher: Katerina Pistola Podcast creation:...
We survived the forest fires in Mati (Greek Audio)
A young mother describes every moment of how she and her family escaped through the flames in the 2018 fires in Mati. Narrator: Fei Sekeridi Researcher: Danai Charalampidi Podcast Creation: Stavros Vlachos, Daphne Matziaraki Sound Design: Dimitris Palaiogiannis Sound Editing:...
Pirates on board
In 2015, just off the Nigerian coast, pirates mount a deadly attack on a Greek tanker. A crew member describes each moment as it unfolded - and what it felt like to survive. Field Reporter: Viktoria Delakovia Producer: Maya Filippopoulou Sound Designer: Iasonas Theofanou Sound...
The arranged marriage from Australia (Greek Audio)
In Lesbos in 1965, Eleni Theodorou boards a ship bound for Australia, to marry a man she has never met. And so the adventure begins: factories, modern morals, racist attacks, in a foreign place that "needs struggle, but also love". Narrator: Eleni Tzanni Researcher: Panagitsa Xenitelli Podcast...
Dawn never broke in the concentration camps (Greek Audio)
The terrifying experiences she lived through as a prisoner in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp forever scar the soul of Rina Revach. Decades later, she will go on a journey of salvation in the place where she experienced horrors. Narrator: Rina Revach Researcher:...
Pirates on board (Greek Audio)
A crew member describes, in detail, the bloody attack by pirates on a Greek tanker in Nigeria in 2015. Researcher: Viktoria Delakovia Podcast Creation: Maya Filippopoulou Sound Design: Iasonas Theofanou Sound Editing: Dimitris Papadakis Photographs: Nikos Mandilas Music:...
Little girl in the prisons of Aegina (Greek Audio)
A little girl visits her uncle in Aegina’s prison of exiles, in the early 1950s. Narrator: Eleni Moschou Researcher: Dimitris Moschos Podcast Creation: Stavros Vlachos Sound Design: Iasonas Theofanou Sound Editing: Michael Ikonomidis Photographs: Vasia A...
I survived the bombing of a plane
In 1986 Christos Christofis is on the last leg of a flight from Los Angeles to Athens when a bomb explodes just six seats in front of him. Interviewee: Christos Christofis Field Reporter: Spyros Mantzavinos Producer: Stavros Vlachos Sound Designer: Iason Thofanou Sound Editor:...
The only Greek Cirque Du Soleil acrobat (Greek Audio)
From the smell of the grills at the festivals of Achaia to the stage of Cirque du Soleil, the most renowned circus in the world. Narrator: Kriton Anastasopoulos Researcher: Katerina Pistola Podcast creation: Maya Filippopoulou Sound Design: Iasonas Theofanou Sound Editing:...
I survived the bombing of a plane (Greek Audio)
Christos Christofis was a passenger on the TWA 840 flight, where a bomb exploded. In April 1986, the plane was on the Los Angeles-Cairo route with a stopover in Athens, when a terrifying explosion was heard over Argos. A hole opened in the fuselage and four passengers fell out into nothingness. The...
In the village a traitor, in the city a communist (Greek Audio)
During the turbulent years of the Civil War in Kosmas of Arcadia, Yorgos Mermigkas refuses to choose a side. He is pursued by both the men of Organization X and the guerillas, escaping death three times. Narrator: Yorgos Mermigkas Researcher: Angeliki Katti Podcast creation:...
The bank director of the Velventos robbery (Greek Audio)
The director of the Agricultural Bank in Velventos, Kozani, recalls the morning of February 1, 2013, when armed men broke in to rob the bank. Narrator: Giorgos Karakitsios Researcher: Panagiotis Zagorianos Podcast creation: Stavros Vlachos Sound Design: Dimitris Palaiogiannis Sound...
The one-handed boxer
Vangelis Chatzis, maimed at three months old, becomes the first professional one-handed boxer in the world, escaping the gangs and drug trade. Interviewee: Vangelis Chatzis Field Reporter: Konstantinos Michail Producer: Daphne Matziaraki Sound Designer: Nikolas Konstantinou Cinematographer:...
The Italian we hid in the house (Greek Audio)
The family of Tasos Tsenempis hides an Italian soldier who was wanted by the Germans during the Occupation in Corfu. Years later, he will meet him again in Italy. Narrator: Tasos Tsenempis Researcher: Sofiana Draganidou Podcast creation: Stavros Vlachos Sound Design: Dimitris Palaiogiannis Sound...
In a foreign country without my child (Greek Audio)
Anastasia Myrtsidou leaves with her husband in 1960 from Nea Vyssa in Evros, for Germany, to work in factories. When they have their first child, they are forced to leave that child behind in Greece. Narrator: Anastasia Myrtsidou Researcher: Chrysa Tsikmanli Podcast creation:...
Hunting for guerilla treasure (Greek Audio)
What do those who hunt for treasure underground look for? Vaios Seretis tells us about the maps, signs, coding, and treasure troves of the guerillas. Narrator: Vaios Seretis Interview: Stavros Vlachos Podcast creation: Stavros Vlachos Sound Design: Iasonas Theofanou Sound...