Romanian-born actor Edward G. Robinson travels to Romania in 1966 to visit the places of his childhood.
A selection of communist-era pop songs written to celebrate the Romanian capital city of Bucharest.
American singer, actor, athlete, equal rights advocate and political activist Paul Robeson visited communist Romania in 1959. He had gotten his passport back just the previous year, after being blacklisted and having his passport seized by the US government on account of his vocal support for the USSR during the McCarthy era.
Romania’s National Culture Day is closely linked to the birth date of national poet Mihai Eminescu, on 15th January. We go back today to June 1989, to another event linked to this poet, namely the centennial of his death.
American literary giant John Updike travelled to Romania in 1964 on a state-sponsored trip as US cultural ambassador.
Amita Bhose is known in Romania as the Indian scholar who produced the first translations of national poet Mihai Eminescu into Bengali, but her contribution to closer cultural and literary ties between her country and Romania extends far beyond.
Well-known American poet and Pullitzer prize winner W. D. Snodgrass produced one of the most celebrated versions of the Romanian pastoral ballad Miorita.
Some of the world’s greatest musicians talk about their connection to Romanian composer George Enescu and his lasting musical legacy.
Raj Kapoor, India’s iconic actor and film maker, was also immensely popular in Romania in the 1950s and 1960s. In 1958, he was invited to visit the country to attend the screening of his latest work, Shree 420.
Christiaan Barnard, the South-African surgeon who made the world’s first human-to-human heart transplant, travelled to communist Romania in 1972. He enjoyed great popularity here, having performed a much-publicised life-saving operation on a Romanian teenager a year earlier.
A pioneer of abstract sculpture, Romanian-born sculptor Constantin Brâncuși was one of the most influential artists of the 20th century. British sculptor Henry Moore, MoMa and Metropolitan Museum museum curator William Lieberman and American writer Helen Kay speak about Brâncuși’s lasting legacy in old recordings from RRI's archives.
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.
Legendary Peter Brook staging of King Lear is performed in Bucharest as part of Royal Shakespeare Company’s 1964 tour.
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.
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.
