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.
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.
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.
