Witness

Original version

BBC Radio 4

Intelligent speech, the most insightful journalism, the wittiest comedy, the most fascinating features and the most compelling drama and readings anywhere in UK radio.

BBC Radio 4 FM

BBC Radio 4 is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 30th September 1967. It replaced BBC Home Service.

Radio 4

Radio 4 (FM)

Witness History

Podcasts

Factual: History

History as told by the people who were there

History as told by the people who were there.

BBC Radio 4 LW

Witness History: Life in Ceausescu's Romania

Life in Ceausescu's Romania

BBC World Service - Witness History, Life in Ceausescu's Romania

Nicolae Ceausescu controlled Romania through his feared secret police - the Securitate.

Life in Ceausescu's Romania was lived in the shadow of his feared secret police force - the Securitate. Hear one child's story.

During the communist dictatorship of Nicolae Ceausescu,  Romanians lived in the shadow of his feared secret police force - the Securitate. Carmen Bugan was a young village girl whose life was turned upside down when her father dared to speak out against the system. From then on police agents recorded everything she and her family, said and did.

Photo: Carmen before the Securitate came.

Accessibility links

Programme Index

Witness History

Life in Ceausescu's Romania

Genres

Brand

BBC Radio 4 FM

About BBC Radio 4