Gradski detektiv/The Urban Detective is a Bulgarian narrative podcast investigating urban legends such as did the Beatles really try to play the “communist Woodstock” in 1968 and why the Party tried to build a fake sea around Sofia. It’s produced and narrated by journalists Ana Blagova, Yana Punkina and Radoslav Chichev, with original music by Angel Dodov.
Since 2018, we have 35 stories across 5 seasons, and the first 6 (when we were just two girls and a Zoom recorder) are dubbed in English here. You can check out the other ones in Bulgarian, or read their synopses in English here. Seasons 1 and 5 were supported by the National Culture Fund, and 3 through 4 were supported by Sofia Municipality’s Culture Programme. Our media partners are the Bulgarian National Radio & the online Dnevnik.bg. If you’d like to support our future work, you can buy us a coffee.
Lately we’ve gotten to meet some of our heroes (yey!), been named a harbinger of good in the Bulgarian media landscape, and we’ve even gotten around to teaching! We’ve also collaborated with some museums & curators, with more to come. We’re huge fans of telling stories in sound – if you’d like to reach out, please find us at tips @ detectivepodcast.com
You can find us on all platforms, as well as on Facebook and Instagram.
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