The first of four talks in which the novelist and critic Joseph Hone describes the journey he took through Hungary and Czechoslovakia this summer and comments on the social and political situation in these countries today.
1: Budapest: Back Alleys and Grand Boulevards
Paris-on-the-Danube but with incongruous back streets; and the remnants of Zsa Zsa 's tortoiseshell cosmetic box surfacing in Government antique shops ...