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Cultural travel episode · Cultural continuity · Icaria · Food, celebration and island memory

Destinations — The Greek Island of Icaria, Never Too Close to the Sun

Released · 2022 · Production year

Later Reception & Cultural Continuity

The programme explores Icaria through its food, fertile land, resistance and culture of celebration.

View towards the Acropolis from the Pnyx in Athens
The Pnyx and Acropolis, Athens. Contextual photograph; not a production still. George E. Koronaios · Source · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Cropped and resized.

The production story

The programme explores Icaria through its food, fertile land, resistance and culture of celebration. The title evokes Icarus, while the distributor’s synopsis chiefly concerns the island’s later cultural life. The 13-minute 2022 production is included as cultural continuity; the depth of its mythological treatment is not assumed from the title alone.

This record covers the named episode or segment. The source below identifies its date and scope. Later broadcasts, translated titles and extracts are not counted here as separate productions.

Known filming locations

Places named in the synopsis are subject locations; the cited record does not establish a complete filming itinerary.

Developments

  1. 2022

    The programme catalogue identifies 2022 as the production year. Source ↗

Related Archaeopolis expertise

Historical material culture and contemporary interpretation relevant to the ancient-world strand of this work.

Explore Mythological Worlds Production Support

Independent production monitoring — inclusion does not imply a collaboration with Archaeopolis.