Stories about home and homelessness, from eastern Europe and beyond. By Nick Thorpe, writer, broadcaster and film-maker.
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Report from Mohács (2)
This is the text of my report for the BBC radio programme From Our Own Correspondent, first broadcast here on 5 September 2026 (the final item). It’s illustrated with my own photographs from the commemorative events in and around Mohács and...
Report from Mohács (1)
29 August 1526 was a Wednesday. ‘Wednesday’s child is full of woe…’ runs the old English nursery rhyme, and that certainly came true for the Hungarian-led, Christian army. Perhaps 20,000 of the 30,000 Christian soldiers fell in battle that...
Battleground Hungary
With Julius by the Black Tisza, Rakhiv, Ukraine. 3 February 2023.
Julius has just published a long and I hope useful conversation with me about Hungary - the first 100 days of the Tisza government (and the previous 100 days, at least).
Yo...
In Praise of Rain
At four o’clock on Friday morning I was woken by a sound I had almost forgotten. Rain doesn’t make the same sound on an old thatched roof, as on a tiled roof. It doesn’t bounce off, but seems to thud on the inside layers, not the outside on...
Queen and I
When I first received the invitation, in the post, I misread it. How could the British Embassy, of all people, miss out the definite article ‘the’? But then I remembered - it was July 1986, and Freddie Mercury’s Queen were due in town, any...
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I’ve been travelling all my life, from my homes in England, Senegal, Germany, Finland, Greece and, since 1986, Hungary. I love the power and weight of the spoken and written word, as a writer, broadcaster, film-maker and gardener.
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