Bulgaria Today – 26 December 2024

Welcome to Bulgaria Today. This is a festive edition of Radio Bulgaria's English-language podcast, broadcast on Thursday, 26 December. Your host is Elizabeth Radkova.

On our programme today we talk about the sacred meaning of Koledari caroling in Bulgaria. Our guest is folk singer Daniel Spasov who has done a thorough research of Bulgarian Christmas song traditions.

• Next, we have a fantastic story of a craftsman who makes glass-blown Christmas tree baubles.

• We will tell you about an out of the main-stream musician – Stefan Valdobrev, and his band The Usual Suspects.

• In our Song of the Day section, we close our programme with a beautiful duet between Margarita Hranova and Stefan Ilchev entitled 'In This Holy Night'.