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.
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.
