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	HU OSA 300-40-13
Fonds 300:	Records of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Research Institute
Subfonds 40:	Hungarian Unit
Series 13:	Transcripts of Broadcasts

Date(s) 1951-1991

Extent and medium 4 Archival boxes, 0.50 linear meters

Scope and content

Contains transcripts of radio broadcasts.

This series consists of transcripts of four programs of the Hungarian Broadcasting Department. Tamás Bogyay's 'Kalendárium' [Calendar] was a 20-25 minutes long daily program commemorating either some outstanding event or the birthday of famous Hungarian and foreign personalities. Tibor Hanák's 'Nyitott szemmel' [With Eyes Open], broadcast on a weekly basis, was a 10 minutes long commentary (glossary) on various topics. Editors László Feketekuty and László Illés broadcast - in February 1974, for three weeks, in 20 minutes daily - the Hungarian version of Alexander Solzhenitsyn's famous novel 'A Gulag-szigetcsoport' [The Gulag Archipelago].

Finally, there several transcripts of the Show (later Play) of the Week program, edited by Aladár Kovách, Gábor Bikich and Otto Indig, including radio adaptations of prominent Hungarian plays such as Bánk Bán by József Katona or Liliom by Ferenc Molnár.

Accruals Not expected

System of arrangement

• Alphabetically by program authors' names and thereunder chronologically

Language/scripts of material Hungarian

Finding aids

• 4 containers

Related units of description

• HU OSA 300-5-44 Records of Aurél Bereznai: Hungarian Program Summary, 1954-1973

Date(s) of descriptions

Processed and described in April 2002 and revised in July 2003 by Csaba Szilagyi
Online version updated 6 January 2012