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Sofia's finest is celebrating a birthday:

Radio Bulgaria turns 70

Bulgaria started broadcasting to the world in foreign languages 70 years ago. This laid the beginning of the Overseas Service of the Bulgarian National Radio.
Over the past seven decades Radio Bulgaria (formerly Radio Sofia) has been a radio of friendship, bridging different cultures and countries. At present it broadcasts daily in 10 languages: Bulgarian, English, French, German, Spanish, Russian, Turkish, Greek, Serbian and Albanian.

Since May 2004 our output in text, sound and photos can be found online. The unique for this country and region website also offers information in Arabic.
This jubilee program tells of Radio Bulgaria’s path through the years, of our present goals and the way we work. You will also hear congratulations upon the anniversary from radio stations, cultural and friendship societies, educational and other establishments and institutions on five continents, which have opted to receive discs of selections of our programs.
To mark the 70th anniversary the English Language Service presents interviews with staffers, former and present, on what Radio Bulgaria and the English Section have amounted to in their careers and personal lives. We are opening a door on what it has been like to make good, English-language-speaking international radio in Sofia and prompting great numbers across the world to discover more and more about Bulgaria.
The jubilee program has been initiated by Maya Daskalova and its general part has been authored by Veneta Pavlova.
The English Section has been prepared by Margarita Dikanarova with the assistance of Daniela Konstantinova.

Music editor: Sybila Lilova
Sound-engineers: Nickola Velikov, Alexander Spassov and Ivan Nickolov

Listen to the programme here!