Keyword – Hungarian Radio

Boros, Ulrika:

The Golden Age of Hungarian Radio

This paper studies “Women’s Advisory,” a weekly magazine on Hungarian Radio broadcast between 1925 and 1945, addressing women, and hosted by Mária Arányi. It assesses the nature, structure and reception of this series on the basis of the texts and documents that are still available, and attempts to answer the question of how the anchor’s notion of womanhood relates to changes in gender and social roles during the post-war years. Does the broadcast reflect upon the emergence and spread of ‘modern ideas,’ including new female roles? Is it compatible with women’s duties and behaviour patterns that were considered traditional and acceptable during the Horthy era?

Keywords: Mária Arányi, “Women’s Advisory,” School of Happiness, association work, Horthy era, Hungarian Radio, “What’s the Message of Radio,” women’s magazine, women’s roles, concept of womanhood, women’s history, Radio Life, history of the radio, series

Kékesdi-Boldog, Dalma:

How Hungarian radio and Radio Free Europe communicated the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. A comparative analysis

On 26 of April 1986 1:23 AM a fatal nuclear accident occurred in the Soviet Union. Reactor No. 4 of the Vladimir Ilyich Lenin Nuclear Power Plant exploded, and harmful radioactive fall-out effused. The accident threatened most of the population of the Eastern Block, but the people – including those in Hungary – could not receive appropriate information about the threat because of the Cold War context and authoritarian media policy. Based on archival sources, this paper explores how the Chernobyl case was managed on Hungarian Radio an the Hungarian broadcasts of Radio Free Europe. It focuses on what was aired about the Hungarian nuclear radiation level and what health protection recommendations were issued in Hungary.

Keywords: Chernobyl disaster, Hungarian information policy, Hungarian Radio, Radio Free Europe, soviet/ communist media system