What Happened to the Revolution – Romania 1991

Outside the National Library in Bucharest, a couple of days after it went up in flames at Christmas 1989.
Outside the National Library in Bucharest, a couple of days after it went up in flames at Christmas 1989.

Covering the Romanian Revolution in December 1989 was thrilling, terrifying and personally a life-changing experience.

I’ll add pictures and some more narrative in due course, but here’s a long radio documentary I compiled and broadcast on the BBC World Service just over a year after the fall of Nicolae Ceausescu, with the incomparable production support of the lovely Mike Popham.