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Between 1945 and 1990, a number of international radio stations used to broadcast in Romanian. These were mainly stations from Western Europe and were targeted at the Romanian public in Romania in an attempt to make up for the failure of domestic stations to cover subjects of interest. One such international station broadcasting in Romanian was that belonging to NOREA, the Nordic Radio Evangelistic Association, a church mission society. NOREA began its first Romanian broadcast in 1971, but it was in fact one man who did it all, namely pastor and journalist Du\u021bu Moscovici. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The beginnings of Radio NOREA can be traced back to Norway, a country with a majority Christian Lutheran population. The station broadcast from Monte Carlo, in the south of Europe. In time, the association\u2019s station expanded to Denmark, where it set up its first recording studios. In 2000, Radio Romania\u2019s Oral History Centre recorded an interview with Du\u021bu Moscovici in which the latter recounted how he began his career as a radio journalist:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI was in Lubeck, in Germany, with my wife, visiting a very famous church. While we were admiring a painting, someone approached us and asked me if I was pastor Moscovici from Romania. I said yet and it turns out I knew the man, he was a Hungarian pastor. At that time, he was working for the Hungarian section of Radio NOREA, in Oslo. I told him I was going to think about it and then after a while I said I agreed to do the Romanian broadcast. That was the beginning.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Du\u021bu Moscovici began recording at NOREA\u2019s studio in Oslo. Denmark, which supported the project, built studios in Denmark, and Du\u021bu Moscovici and the Romanian service grew attached to the new location. The pastor would travel once a month from Hamburg, where he lived, to Denmark and do all the recordings for the entire month. The tapes would then be sent to Monte Carlo by post, and Moscovici would always listen to the broadcasts when they were aired to make sure they got the order right. Radio NOREA\u2019s Romanian language broadcast was aired once a week, on Friday, and lasted 15 minutes. Later, it grew to 30 minutes, to be followed by two broadcasts a day, 15 minutes each. It eventually began to broadcast every Saturday and Sunday at 6.30 pm Romania time. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Du\u021bu Moscovici <\/span><\/span>remembers<\/span><\/span><\/span> what the broadcast <\/span><\/span>consisted of<\/span><\/span><\/span>:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe broadcast began with the words: \u2018From Radio Transmondial in Monte Carlo, you are listening to Radio NOREA\u2019s evangelical broadcast in the Romanian language\u2019. This was followed by a short intermezzo of instrumental music, the tune of the German hymn A Mighty Fortress is our God, the traditional song of the Lutheran Church around the world. We would begin with a short presentation of the programme. We would say that we are broadcasting a biblical study, a text about the Bible, or the biography of a missionary. The programme neede<\/span><\/span>d to be diverse, but the core was the presentation of a biblical text. We also had \u2018words of the week\u2019, a short quotation from the words of some important person, for example <\/span><\/span><\/span>Blaise Pascal. <\/span><\/span>We would also have a guest in the programme. I had such interviews with the bishops of Oslo; over 30 years there were a number of bishops and we hosted all of them. Even Norway\u2019s prime minister <\/span><\/span><\/span>Kjell Magne Bondevik <\/span><\/span>was once a guest.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Du\u021bu Moscovici was also asked if he had full freedom <\/span><\/span><\/span>with respect to the content of the broadcast:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

“I had absolute freedom. However, there was one condition that we had to observe, but <\/span><\/span><\/span>no one ever checked.<\/span><\/span><\/span> The condition was not to interfere in<\/span><\/span><\/span>to<\/span><\/span><\/span> political matters and not to have a critical attitude towards other religious denominations. We had to stick exclusively to the preaching of the gospel. The program<\/span><\/span><\/span>me<\/span><\/span><\/span> in Romanian was <\/span><\/span><\/span>written<\/span><\/span><\/span> by one person, me. Undoubtedly, many others contributed to the program<\/span><\/span><\/span>me<\/span><\/span><\/span>, but in fact everything was in the hands of a single person who had absolute power. No one was imposing anything on me, no one was controlling anything. It was a matter of trust.” <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

How did Radio NOREA correspond with its listeners in Romanian? Du\u021bu Moscovici is back with details:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

“At one point, we had to deal with the issue of letters from listeners. There was a time when the letters, if they were addressed to the radio station NOREA, were likely to be stopped by censorship in Romania, and their author could be in trouble. We had different approaches. For example, from our address we excluded the word \u2018radio\u2019, we kept only NOREA. I used to <\/span><\/span><\/span>tell listeners that if they wanted to write <\/span><\/span><\/span>to us, <\/span><\/span><\/span>they should write <\/span><\/span><\/span>NOREA, followed <\/span><\/span><\/span>by<\/span><\/span><\/span> the address <\/span><\/span><\/span>in<\/span><\/span><\/span> Denmark.” <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Radio NOREA\u2019<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>s <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>Romanian <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>language programme<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> had the mission of<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> spreading Christian principles and values \u200band <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>encourage people to hope that better times would come.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> And for its listeners this effort mattered a lot.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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