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On Tour in Bucharest, Romania

Nikki Bedi meets the creatives who are shaping the arts and culture of Romania including Bogdan Mure艧anu, Alina Serban, Gabriel Gherghe, Irina Rimes, and Simion Bogdan Mihai.

Nikki Bedi is on stage with top Romanian creatives and a live audience, to explore the relationship between deep rooted tradition and fast development in the country right now.

Star guests are filmmaker Bogdan Mure艧anu... whose film 'The New Year That Never Came' explores the immediate lead-up to the 1989 revolution, and Alina Serban... Romania's first Roma woman playwright and director.

We have live comedy from Gabriel Gherghe, who is also our 'Culture Cab' guide to artistic secrets of the city, and live music from star performer and coach on 'The Voice of Romania', Irina Rimes, and from folk revivalist Simion Bogdan Mihai, with his phenomenal band, The Silken Fiddles.

(Photo: Irina Rimes on stage at The Arts Hour on Tour in Bucharest. Credit: Alex Varninschi)

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