Istorima

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:...

Cinephile, comedy, adventure, cartoons: Maro Hatzeleni, owner of the last video store in Chios, could guess every customer’s preferences the moment she saw them. She could tell by the way they walked and greeted her. She had funny and amazing moments, including outrageous demands and outbursts, moments o...

One of the most popular female DJs in Greece, Fofi Tsesmeli, tells her story of her journey in a male-dominated profession; stories from the Athenian club scene and queer scene from the 80s to today and meets with legendary names such as Catherine Deneuve, Nana Mouskouri and David Guetta. Narrator:...

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...

Series: Occupation through the eyes of its childrenFanoula grows up in Veria when the first Italian planes fly over the city. Wild and lively as a child, she gets involved in various adventures and becomes a witness to all the important events that unfold in occupied Greece. Narration:...

[Greek Audio] The son of a family falls victim to kidnapping by bandits at the University Campus and is tortured for hours. Soon after, they break into his parents' house. Narrator: Makis PapadatosInterview: Demi HatziPodcast Creation: Demi HatziSound Design: Giorgos RamantanisAudio Editing:...

[English Voiceover] When 17-year-old Boye had to flee Ghana, he was held captive by human traffickers and forced to work as a slave in various African and Arab countries. After surviving two years of torture and hardship, he managed to escape and made it to Greece, where he was granted refugee status. Interviewee:...

[Greek Audio] The gripping story of the secret mission carried out by the Greek warship "Phaethon", which was sent to Cyprus in 1964. The mission remained top secret for 52 years. Narrator: Dimitris MitsatsosResearcher: Renata Kotti-DobretzPodcast Creation: Effrosyni Kyriazi, Maya FilippopoulouSound...

[Greek Audio] Kostas is only ten when his life comes upside down and is forced to be transferred to the hospital. There he will build a small kingdom, a second life, because of a hospitalization that will last longer than he expected. In this unusual story of adulthood, a child explores the noisy...

In July ’47, a 17-year-old shoemaker from Megalo Horio is recruited by the DSE to make the rebels’ shoes. Through battles, persecution, trouble, he tries to return to his village. Narrator: Takis HaskosResearcher: Valantis ChiltasPodcast Creation: Andreas PappasSound Design: Ias...

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