Daily: TRANSYLVANIAN FAMILIES – Why Romania rules

The Bunker

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News, Politics, Society & Culture, Government

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🗓️ 22 July 2021

⏱️ 28 minutes

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It’s astonishingly beautiful, fiercely independent, full of mystery and a crossroads of jaw-dropping historical events – so why do we still think of Romania as a backwater? Paul Kenyon, author of Children of the Night: The Strange and Epic Story of Modern Romania, tells Arthur Snell how this sensational state has survived multiple coups, fascist death cults, dictators, and Cold War spies…and why Dracula doesn’t enjoy such a bad rep among his fellow Romanians. “Romania’s fascist movement was led by a rock star mystic who looked like Hugh Grant.” “Romania’s fascist leader was so patriotic, he wore a sack of Romania’s blood-soaked earth around his neck.” “Everybody thought that one in three members of their family were part of the Secret Police.” “All the leading Romanian football clubs have seen their owners go in and out of prison.” Presented by Arthur Snell. Assistant producers Jelena Sofronijevic and Jacob Archbold. Music by Kenny Dickinson. Audio production by Alex Rees. Produced by Andrew Harrison. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production https://www.hive.co.uk/Product/Paul-Kenyon/Children-of-the-Night--The-Strange-and-Epic-Story-of-Modern-Romania/25376753 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	My name is Stan. I'm at. Nice to meet you. So you took up photography where? I've always loved
0:05.5	photography but I turn it into earning a living at 60. I enrolled on a day course.
0:11.8	Well college. I loved going to college. It's good you can retry. I'm enrolled on the day course. But college?
0:13.0	I loved going to college.
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1:11.2	Imagine a large southern European country with an accessible language,
1:15.8	amazing scenery, vineyards, fascinating history, lengthy coastline.
1:21.4	Where is this place? I'm talking about Romania, the most beautiful
1:26.6	and misunderstood country in all of Europe. Now that description is actually the
1:31.8	words of Paul Kenyan who's joining me today.
1:34.7	Paul is a journalist who's written a book about Romania called Children of the Night, has lived
1:39.5	there over many years and is also married to a Romanian and his book has just come out.
1:44.4	Paul welcome to the bunker.
1:46.0	Hi good to good to see you and good to hear from you and just briefly by the way I haven't really lived
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