Welcome to Bucharest, Romania's capital city where, and I'm really delighted about this,

you've chosen to spend the next half hour with this podcast from assignment.

Hopefully, if you like what you hear in the next half hour,

you're right to review on your podcast provider or at least tell your mates about us.

So Bucharest, well for a week, I've been exploring the often hidden world

of adult webcaming or video chat as it's known here.

That is, young Romanians, mostly young women,

being seen and talking directly to international clients over the internet.

Mirella Dini-Coyle has been my guide and translator here in Bucharest.

When you first contact me for this subject, I knew nothing.

And when I began to do my research, I look on one of the main jobs websites

in Romania, and I found that there are 49 active jobs all over the country

just searching for the word video chat.

Okay, well that tells you something about the size of the industry.

So listen up.

Hello.

Hello, Lana. Hi. Nice to meet you.

She is the woman that I told you about from BBC, and she wants to ask some questions.

Lana's tiny and beautiful, a mane of fair hair tumbling over her shoulders.

We meet at Studio 20, part of Romania's burgeoning live webcaming industry.

I'm Linda Pressley, and this week's assignment from Bucharest

contains material of her sexual nature.

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