Istorima

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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[English Voiceover] Studying in India, learning about Alexander the Great, Odyssey and Aesop’s Fables, Udaya believed she would never visit Greece. But she decided to take her destiny into her own hands and now she is a digital nomad living in Athens. Interviewee: Udaya MajjiInterview b...

Avraam Drakopoulos had to overcome many obstacles in his life before becoming a successful doctor: orphanhood, poverty and, above all, the certificate of political convictions, which described his father as a “communist” and closed the doors to him. However, his perseverance and his commitment to the...

Two accidents in childhood deprived him of his sight. Panagiotis Grammenidis overcame many obstacles to make his dreams come true. Narrator: Panagiotis GrammenidisResearcher: Manolis DelisPodcast Creator: Thanos PsychogiosSound Design: Giorgos RamantanisSound Editing: Dimitris Papadakis Istorima...

Maria Korma is the fifth generation of a family of powerful women who dared to defy the norms of their time and follow their hearts. Narrator: Maria Pelekanou-KormaInterview: Maya FilippopoulouPodcast Creation: Maya FilippopoulouSound Design: Iasonas Theofanou Audio Editing:...

[English Voiceover] In 1951, artillery gunner Nikitas Kotsiou finds himself among those selected to fight in Korea. Interviewee: Nikitas KotsiouInterview by: Georgia KakiProducer: Andreas PappasSound Designer: Giorgos RamantanisSound Editor: Dimitris PapadakisTranslator: Steve LeverVoiceover:...

[Greek Audio] Through dark adventures, endless parties of abuse and absolute misery, Lambros Tsagaris manages to find a way out for a new life. A journey from the hell of drugs and near death to his current paradise on earth. Narrator: Lambros TsagarisResearchers: Margarita DemeroukaCreating...

[Greek Audio] Rubble, flares, animals: just some of the things that Maria Nyfakou, who works in the municipal garbage trucks, finds every day in the garbage trucks. A hard but absolutely necessary job. Narrator: Maria NyfakouResearchers: Sofia MathioudakiPodcast creation: Andreas...

[Greek Audio] What happens to beers after they are consumed? Where do the empty bottles end up? A strange figure approaches groups of young people in the parks and squares of Thessaloniki, collecting their empty beer bottles. Narrator: The narrator has asked to be pseudonymizedResearcher:...