A film of the famous football match between England and Hungary at Wembley in 1953, which Hungary won 6-3, thereby inflicting England’s first ever home defeat. Hungarian captain Ferenc Puskás later wrote: ‘No victory gave me greater pleasure [...] We had given the old masters a lesson.’ Accompanied by drinks.  

Péter is a senior research fellow with Media and Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe, an ERC project based at the OU Dept of Politics and International Relations (2009–13), on leave from his chair at Budapest Business School, and editor of the Hungarian media studies quarterly. Médiakutató

directed by Krisztina Goda (with English subtitles)

With the euro potentially on the verge of collapse, what will be Hungary’s place in the new political and economic order emerging from Paris, Frankfurt and Berlin? Robin has been a civil servant and banker (both investment and central) and now runs a business advising governments on international financial issues.

Tibor is a retired historian, formerly at the University of St Andrews. He will talk about the scandal of Transylvanian girls sold into slavery from a supposedly liberal Hungary.

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An evening of poetry by Clive Wilmer and George Gömöri to introduce Passio, their recently published pamphlet of Pilinszky translations (Worple Press, 2011).