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 THIS IS LONDON 1939-2005
 
Griechenland 2006 | 28 Min.
 
Camera: Vagelis Voukelatos
Director: Aris Fatouros
Editor: Alex Sampsonidis
Producer: Aris Fatouros
Sound: Yannis Kamarinos
Production Company: Parliament TV
Uploaded by: Anemon

On December 31st of 2005, the Greek Radio of BBC fell silent, after 66 years of continuous broadcasting; sacrificed, together with eight other European Services, due to different BBC priorities, like the development of its services in Arab languages, for obvious geo-political reasons. On June 6th of 2006, in an official ceremony that took place at the Hellenic Parliament, the BBC administration donated a copy of the audio archive of the BBC Greek Service to the Parliamentary Library, with the intention to preserve and use its historical content. The film, an internal production of the Parliamentary Channel, was created for this event. The director about his film: "It is a post production documentary, denuded of narration or music. The narrative consists of a continuous succession of audio documents from the archive, which concern mainly the historically charged periods of WWII, the Civil War, the Cyprus Affair and the Junta, but also the modern face of BBC Greek, underlining the cultural aspect. The voice of the Nobel laureate poet George Seferis – an old collaborator of BBC – is heard throughout the film, marking the interchange of historical cycles and establishing itself as a narrative structural element. The images, which here supplement the dominant broadcasted sound, derive from various national audiovisual archives, the photographic archives of BBC, ERT and the Parliament, as well as from numerous Greek documentaries."
 
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