Former child star Shirley Temple travelled to communist Romania in 1970. Her Hollywood days long since over, she was serving at the time as a United States representative to the United Nations.
A chat with journalist and DJ Paul Breazu, ahead of his participation in the "Longueur d'ondes" Festival (France).
L.O.S.T. bassist Vlad Busca speaks up the band's latest album, "Scars of Tomorrow"
Legendary Peter Brook staging of King Lear is performed in Bucharest as part of Royal Shakespeare Company’s 1964 tour.
A dark wave, post-punk, new wave duo from Ukraine, currently based in Romania
As part of our foray into Radio Romania’s audio archives, today we look at the 1971 visit to Romania by that most formidable of British politicians: the Iron Lady herself, Margaret Thatcher.
Mars and Daemons's Marius and Pani reflect on the history of the band, creative process and plans for the future
One of the 20th century’s greatest writers, the British novelist Graham Greene visited Romania in 1962. Stay tuned for some of his impressions from his trip and to learn more about the background of this visit with the film critic, academic and Graham Greene translator Andrei Gorzo.
With the US presidential elections coming up, let’s cast our look back in time to the first visit by an American president to Romania: Richard Nixon, at the beginning of August 1969, less than two weeks after the moon landing. This was also the first state visit by an American president to a socialist country.
Loic Meuley, cultural attache with the French Institute in Romania, gave us details about the programme implemented this October in Bucharest.
British physicist and 1950-Nobel Prize in Physics winner C. F. Powell travelled to Romania in 1964 to attend the Executive Committee of the World Federation of Scientific Workers hosted that year by Bucharest.
Jazz legend Louis Armstrong performs in Romania as part of his historic 1965 East European tour.
New RRI series embarks on exciting journey into Radio Romania’s archives to unearth historic recordings from the Cold War era.
The 33rd edition of The International Week of New Music took place in Bucharest between May 19th and 26.
The Bucharest-based post-punk trio speak up their debut album, "Electrocasnic," a record "about the mundane, about the day-to-day frustrations of modern life."
Luiza Zan: "The album 'In My Village' is the story of my transition through the pandemic. It's been a very interesting transition to loving the village and adoring life in a very small corner of the world."
The composer, performer and producer Alexei Țurcan speaks up his current project, the Mădălina Pavăl Orchestra, and reflects on what he loves best about his music career.
Dragoş Cantea, co-founder and artistic director of Classix Festival: "We should have no borders. Music knows no borders, so why should we?"
The band, originally formed in India in 2015, relocated to Romania in 2017 and experienced successive line-up changes
The Bucharest-based musician and journalist reflects on past and future projects and on the state of play in Romanian underground music
