This anniversary of the Bulgarian National Radio is a celebration of both the Bulgarian archives and the entire society, because the Radio's activity over the past century reflects the history of Bulgaria through three entire eras, noted the Chairman of the Archives State Agency, Assoc. Prof. Mihail Gruev. 

The public radio has been, and continues to be, a model for the work of generations of journalists, including the Director General of BTA Kiril Valchev, who began his professional career at 4 Dragan Tsankov Blvd. 

Both the exhibition and the magazine recall the beginning, the first steps of Radio Sofia and the radio stations in the country, the first directors, speakers and radio teams, the development of the Bulgarian national radio in the different decades of the twentieth century.

The exhibition will travel and will be exhibited in the building of the State Archives in Sofia, and then in all cities of the country where there are regional radio stations of the BNR, and then in the Bulgarian cultural centers abroad.

"Through the stories in these media, people build their own foundation and ideas about the world," says media expert and editor-in-chief of LIK magazine, Assoc. Prof. Georgi Lozanov.

"LIK magazine and its editorial policy is a territory of cultural memory and the Bulgarian National Radio is one of the important phenomena of Bulgarian culture, and hence of Bulgarian cultural memory. The radio is a very modern, huge community center, among other things. And this issue must reflect all these faces of the Bulgarian National Radio - this is not an easy task! We have worked with two large archives - that of the Bulgarian National Radio itself and that of the BTA. Through this issue, we are writing the history of the BNR, but in a way that it can be heard and experienced by the modern reader", points out  Assoc. Prof. Lozanov and explains: 

"Traditional media, including radio, provide continuity between generations, between different circles in society, unlike new media – social networks, in which everyone is in their own generational, thematic and any other bubble. In this respect, radio is perhaps the most stable culturally integral institution created over the years in Bulgaria".

And today, fast, spectacular, easily digestible and forgettable journalism is held in high esteem. Today, we forget our past and repeat its mistakes, but bigger and more terrible. And if in songs we ask ourselves "Where is love?", then in journalism the question is - "Where is memory?":

"Memory is identity", explains Assoc. Prof. Lozanov. "We are our own memory, what motivates us, connects us with others in a historical, human and any other way. So to give up memory means to give up ourselves. But it is difficult, because there is something called neophilia - the modern world is subject to the hunger for something new, because modern man is a bored man. He constantly needs new and new images, themes, ideas to hold his attention, and for a short time, until the next one appears. And memory is in a sense a resistance against this view of the world. However, it seems to me that the world is starting to get tired of this neophilia. Moreover, it is starting to give quite worrying political results on a global scale, so I personally have the feeling that "that future generations will have a great need for a return to memory and a magazine like this one dedicated to the Bulgarian National Radio."