From the archives – Ceausescu’s children: life in a Romanian orphanage – podcast

The Audio Long Read Series

We are raiding the Audio Long Reads archives to bring you some classic pieces from years past, with new introductions from the authors.

This week, from 2015: Romania’s orphanages shocked the world when they were first exposed in 1989. But what happened to the children left behind? Vişinel Balan, now 27, tells his story

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Romanian Orphanage, Bucharest, Romania. February 1990.
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