This Week…in Your Letters

“I am a student and also an enthusiastic shortwave listener from India. It has been almost a year that I have been listening to RRI. English. I will be very pleased to be a member of the RRI Listener’s Club. It would be great if you could communicate me the procedures. At first there was short discussion on evolution of jet packs, facts & figures on automobiles. Music heard at 04:20 UTC. There was commentary about foreigners who choose Romania as their home and interview with an Italian jazz musician who has settled in Bucharest, Romania. Music was heard again at 04:26 & 04:29 UTC with the end of a program. Station ID was heard at 04:30 UTC followed by “Listeners’ Letterbox”. There was information about the ongoing prize winning contests organised by RRI. Letters from different listeners all over the world were read. Romanian rock and roll song was heard at 04:35. It was followed by the frequency change announcement and the new frequencies for summer 2015 were read out. Station ID was again heard at 04:45 UTC. The last program of the broadcast was ‘All that Jazz’”.

România Internațional, 05.04.2015, 14:00

“I am a student and also an enthusiastic shortwave listener from India. It has been almost a year that I have been listening to RRI. English. I will be very pleased to be a member of the RRI Listener’s Club. It would be great if you could communicate me the procedures. At first there was short discussion on evolution of jet packs, facts & figures on automobiles. Music heard at 04:20 UTC. There was commentary about foreigners who choose Romania as their home and interview with an Italian jazz musician who has settled in Bucharest, Romania. Music was heard again at 04:26 & 04:29 UTC with the end of a program. Station ID was heard at 04:30 UTC followed by “Listeners’ Letterbox”. There was information about the ongoing prize winning contests organised by RRI. Letters from different listeners all over the world were read. Romanian rock and roll song was heard at 04:35. It was followed by the frequency change announcement and the new frequencies for summer 2015 were read out. Station ID was again heard at 04:45 UTC. The last program of the broadcast was ‘All that Jazz’”.

Abhirikshma Nandi, India

“At first accept my heartful compliments. As a regular listener of your wonderful station, I had listened todays World of Culture program. In todays program you had broadcast about the Fine Arts from Ramnicu Valcea. In todays program the guests are Petti Velici,Sergiu Pop and Marcel Dutu. They have mounted lots of solo exhibitions at home and abroad. I came to know about their paintings through this program. I really appreciated your wonderful program. I very much enjoyed todays program. I got to know a lot more about the paintings through this program. I found todays program very knowledgeable and informative.”

Karobi Hazarika, India

“Reception of your transmission in DRM on shortwave was very good, sounding like FM quality in mono. Thanks for transmitting your program on shortwave, it provides some interesting information one would not get on local media here”.

Hrald Kuhl, Germany

“I am currently working and living in London. Back on January 4, I sent you my reception report through your form, but so far I have not received a reply. So I am sending you my second reception report. I hope this time my mail finds you well. After listening to ‘Traveler’s Guide’, I really want to visit Romania some time soon. I have wanted to see National Romanian Ballet ever since Johan Kobborg became artistic director, because I am a big fan of Alina Cojocaru. And I became interested in Sighisora after today’s programme”.

Norihiko Ide, Japan

“I have checked reception of some of your other broadcasts to Europe and reception is generally very good. I have included a report on RRI in English to Europe in my column on international radio in the May issue of QTC. Romania has featured on national TV here recently. The other day there was a one-hour very serious report on prostitution and human trafficking in Europe. Sure enough many of the women came from Romania and in some cases it was their families who was behind it all. There was a long interview with a Romanian woman who had established an organisation to help some of all these victims. She said that in 75 % of cases they could not help return the girls or women to their families as they were in fact seriously implicated in the trade. There was also a long interview with the owner of a brothel in Stuttgart, Germany, where prostitution is legal. The clients are Germans but almost all the women come from Romania and other East European nations. Spring has come to Sweden but in recent days we have had quite a lot of rain and strong winds. This is not really what we normally associate with spring although at least here in Sweden we often associate spring with very unreliable weather conditions.”

Christer Brunstrom, Sweden

“During my school-hood I have heard the name of Nadia Elena Comăneci, winner of three Olympic gold medals at the 1976 Summer Olympics and wondered that she was the first female gymnast who scored a perfect 10 in an Olympic gymnastic event, moreover she was a Romanian! In youth I have gone through the thriller of Dracula, originated from Romania! You may know being an inhabitant of West Bengal (India) I have brought up with the communist environment, thus I have some natural curiosity about the Romania history of communism. Obviously all these tempt me to follow RRI programs on air or online. And to me Radio Romania International is a wide-open window to know Romania better. This time just to judge my knowledge about the “DACIA” present-day Romania I have competed in the contest!”

Binarani Mondal, India