On February 13, Moldova, alongside other countries, celebrates the World Radio Day for the first time, Info-Prim Neo reports. On this occasion, the public radio station Radio Moldova will put on air a series of programs centering upon the importance of this old and current communication means between people. According to Radio Moldova director general Alexandru Dorogan, the day starts with a message on the World Radio Day by the UNESCO director general Irina Bokova. In the program “Radiomatinalul”, it will be followed by interviews with personalities and radio people, surveys and reports by correspondents, interviews with broadcasters, members of the Broadcasting Coordination Council, politicians, journalists, representatives of academic circles and civil society about the importance of the radio in people’s lives. A thematic edition of the program “Radiomagazin Sociocultural” will start at 15.10. It will include discussions with Mirela Nicolae, Radio Romania Cultural producer, Vasile Botnaru, director of the Radio Free Europe Office in Chisinau, Ion Bunduchi, executive director of the Electronic Press Association APEL, Svetlana Seliucov and Ludmila Alexei, Radio Moldova correspondents in France and the UK, Vitalie Zegrea, journalist and poet from Cernauti. The Music Department prepared a special performance dedicated to the event, which will be broadcast live at the Organ Hall starting at 18.00. The first recordings on magnetic band at the Moldovan radio, dating from 1949, will be broadest during the program “Radio Moldova is your first radio station”. Radio Moldova also launches the first CD of the collection “Sonorous Books” – the novel “Totentanz or the Life of a Night” by Claudia Partole. The collection from the audio achieves is available on the multimedia portal www.trm.md. February 13 is a date proclaimed by UNESCO to celebrate radio broadcast, improve international cooperation among radio broadcasters and encourage decision-makers to create and provide access to information through radio, including community radios. It’s an occasion to draw attention to the unique value of radio, which remains the medium to reach the widest audience and is currently taking up new technological forms and devices, says www.unesco.org.