National Guards Band Will Play Outside BNT at 10:00 a.m. on Unification Day

On 6th of September, Bulgaria marks 132nd anniversary of the Unification of Principality of Bulgaria and Eastern Rumelia. The day was declared an official holiday in 1998 and is also the day of the city of Plovdiv.

The Bulgarian Guards Brass Band and BNT together will mark the Unification Day with a special festive broadcast from 7 to 10.30 am.

The morning broadcasts of BNT1 "The Day Begins" and "The Day Begins With Culture" will offer the audience a special programme dedicated to the Unification Day.

In the festive edition of "The Day Begins", until 10:30, viewers will learn intereeting details about the life the residents of Plovdiv from the times the city was the capital of Eastern Rumelia.

A live coverage will tell about the events on the day in Varna, where Prince Alexander II of Battenberg received the message of unification. The historical facts related to the Unification, seen through the eyes of experienced and young historians, will be commented by Professor Andrei Pantev and students in history.

The viewers and members of the public will be greeted with a live performance of the Guards Representative Brass Band, which will take place at 10.00 a.m. in front of the BNT building in 29 San Stefano Street in Sofia. The band іѕ рart of the National Guards Unіt.

At 20:30, live from the city of Plovdiv, BNT1 and BNT World channels will broadcast the fire-works display dedicated to the 132^nd anniversary of the Unification.

Films on Unification Day

"The Hour of Our Unification" (Bulgaria, 2005) is a documentary by director Svetoslav Ovcharov, which will be aired on BNT1 at 18:50 on September 6 (Wednesday). The documentary story "The Battle Marches of Bulgaria" by Prof. Lyubomir Halachev, wil be broadcast on BNT2 at 16:05 on the festive day.

The TV premiere of the film "Singing Shoes" (2016) is at 21:10 on BNT1. The director of the film Radoslav Spassov received the special prize of the jury at the Moscow Film Festival at the end of June 2016. The story recreates selected moments from the creative and personal story of the famous singer Lea Ivanova and composer Eddy Kazasyan in the middle of th past century. The great love between the two famous artists and the struggle of the talent for survival beyond the compromise and comformity are in the focus of the film narrative. The script devoted to two of the famous names in the Bulgarian modern music was created by Radoslav Spassov himself and the writer Georgi Danailov.

The programme of BNT World offers a selection of favourite Bulgarian feature films. At 12:30, viewrs will have the opportunity to again see one of the unforgettable performances of the actor Todor Kolev in Nikolay Volev's film "The Double". The comedy "With Children at the Seaside" , by the screenwriters Brothers Mormarevi and director Dimitar Petrov with Georgi Parsalev in the lead role will be aired at 15:15. The film directed by Iglika Trifonova, "Letter to America", strariing Filip Avramov, Petar Antonov, Ana Papadopoulou, Maya Novoselska and others, will be broadcast at 18:10.

Festive concerts

At 12:30 on the Unification Day, BNT1 will broadcast the performance of "Rodopa" Folklore Ensemble which celebrates the 75th anniversary of Bulagria’s famous folk music singer Valya Balkanska, who sings the song "Izlel ye Delyo Haydutin", a 1977 recording of which was included on the Golden Record carried on board the Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 in space.

At 14:05, BNT2 viewers will have the opportunity to watch the performance of Trakia Ensemble "Folklore Legends".

At 15:45, BNT1 will air a concert of Ritton duet. At 18:20, BNT2 will show Maya Neshkova's concert "Only with Love" and at 22:05 BNT World viewers will be able to watch a Jubilee Concert “Mihail Belchev at 70”.

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