WINNERS ON LISTENERS' DAY
Dear friends, this year as well RRI has dedicated a day and a special programme to you. Listener’s Day was marked on November 1st 2009 together with the Radio Day, given that the first radio broadcast was aired in Romania back on November 1st 1928.
20 years ago, in the fall of 1989, revolutionary changes started to take place in Eastern Europe. In Romania they culminated with the bloody anti-Communist revolution of December.
On Listeners’ Day on RRI we invited you to send us short essays on how the revolutionary events which changed the face of Europe in 1989 impacted your life and to share with us your impressions on those events 20 years on. If you live in other regions of the world and experienced other types of transition from one regime to another, we’ve asked you to share with us your memories, feelings and experience.
We received 60 messages from our listeners and Internet users. As we’ve announced, we will offer prizes to those who sent the most interesting contributions, either in writing or in audio format, that were aired in our programs on November the 1st.
There are 35 prizes consisting in one document photo album in three languages (Romanian, English and French) about the 20 years that have passed since the Romanian anti-Communist revolution of December 1989. The albums, which have the signature of the author of the foreword, the well known Romanian historian Ioan Scurtu, have been offered by the Agency for Governmental Strategies and the National news agency Agerpres.
A photo album will go to the following listeners:
Ian Morrison of China,
Stefano Citterio, Alessia Porreca, Massimiliano Scordamaglia, Valerio di Stefano and Roberto Guiso, all five from Italy,
Sergey Kuleshov from Ukraine,
Efim Arteev, Gheorghi Karibov, Dmitri Balikin all three from Russia,
Sergey Rogov from UK, who listens to RRI’s Russian Service,
Dino Bloise from the US, who tunes in to our Spanish broadcasts,
Miguel Ramon Bauset, Jose Luis Corcuera and Vicent Mari Mauricio, all three from Spain,
Hugo Longhi of Argentina,
Philippe Marsan, Francois Jaby, David Bertrana and Christian Ghibaudo from France,
Martin Rogan and Brian Kendall, both from Great Britain,
Jonathan Murphy of Ireland,
Christer Brunstrom of Sweden,
Franz Ngogo of Tanzania and
Goutam Mandal of India, who tune in to our English Service programmes,
Aaron Tiu from the Philippines, who listens to the Chinese programmes,
Iurii Ignatiuk from Poland and
Volodimir Gudzenko from Russia, both listeners of RRI’s Ukrainian Service,
Fritz Andorf from Germany,
Yang Tietong and Xue Bing from China,
Ali Ben Chohra from Algeria,
Abdellilah Izzou and Bououdina Idris, both from Morocco.
The prizes will be sent by mail. We kindly ask you to confirm receipt of the prize. Thank you all once again for contributing to the Listener’s Day programme.
