Identity Statement

Reference Code

HU OSA 368-2-1

Title

Transcripts and Manuscripts of the Programmes of Radio Free Europe

Date(s)

1980 - 1990

Description Level

Series

Extent and medium (processed)

7 Archival boxes, 0.88 linear meters

Content and Structure

Scope and Content (Abstract)

István Kemény started to work for Radio Free Europe in 1980. His regular program was broadcast every first Sunday of the month, when he talked with Levente Kasza about the most important social issues in Hungary. The talks were based on Kemény’s papers. Besides the program On Tomorrow’s Frequency, Kemény worked in several other programs such as the Political Magazine, World News, and Book Review with Gyula Borbándi. His own weekly program was the Hungarian Monitoring in Paris, running between 1983 and 1990. He covered a range of topics, from current issues of Hungarian society to commentaries on contemporary writings on sociological theory and the symptoms of crisis in the Soviet Union in the last decade of its existence, as well as opposition movements in Eastern Europe. His program became an influential and unique source of political history in the 1980s. Furthermore, in 1982 Kemény organized a series of programs on the career and legacy of István Bibó, entitled Past and Present.

The series includes the transcripts of the programs On Tomorrow’s Frequency, Hungarian Monitoring in Paris, Political Magazine etc. While some of the documents are manuscripts, the majority are the versions mailed to be read on air and the transcripts produced by the Radio. In some cases computer-typed and printed transcripts exist from a much later period, while the originals have been lost.

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information

During the course of processing no materials have been removed from the series.

Accruals

Not Expected

System of arrangement

The series is arranged in alphabetical order according to the names of radio programs. Documents belonging to the same radio programs are arranged in chronologic order.

Conditions of Access and Use

Conditions governing access

The collection is open for research. General restrictions apply.

Conditions governing reproduction

A gyűjtemény oktatási és kutatási, nem kereskedelmi célú másolása engedélyezett.

Physical characteristics and technical requirements

The series contains paper documents of good physical condition.

Description Control

Archivist's note

Processed by János Dávid, Gábor Havas, János Köllő, Júlia Varga, Krisztina Passuth and Örs Lehel Tari, September 21, 2016.