Discusses the culture and history of Budapest, Hungary.

By the Danube. "Wise, turbulent and great' -- A Bridge to the Future -- "The greatest Hungarian' -- The Enchanted Garden -- Gloomy Sunday -- A Friend of Hungary? -- The People's Poet -- The National Theatre -- Avenue of Dreams. Budapest's Champs-Elysees -- The Opera House -- Forever Smiling? -- A Hungarian by Choice : Liszt -- "An instrument accessible to all" : Zoltan Kodaly -- Bartok and his Times -- Two Writer-Kings -- Avenue of Nightmares -- Gypsies and Princesses on Stage : Puppets and Operetta -- Champagne Louise and Miss Arizona -- City of Cafes. Coffee House Castles -- Twists of Fate -- Revival -- Heroes and Others. Now You See It, Now You Don't -- Temples of Art -- Funerals for Heroes -- A People's Park -- The Throbbing Hearts of 1896 -- Hearts and Minds. 1919 : Revolutionary Interlude -- The Inter-War Years : Irredentism and Everyday Life -- The 1950s : The Stalinist Era -- After Stalin -- The 1990s : Changing the Face of the City, Statues and Street Names -- City of Baths. Spa City -- Written in Stone. Parliament -- Crowning Glory -- Every Statue Tells a Story -- Imre Nagy and the 1956 Explosion -- In Place of a Prison -- Art Nouveau and Romantic -- Soviet and American -- From Markets to Menus. Market Colours -- Love and Stuffed Cabbage -- Music Fusion. Folk Music Capital -- Cold Outside, Warm Inside -- Ivory and Enamel -- Jews and Gentiles. Politics of Inclusion -- Denominations and Differences -- Around the Dohany utca Synagogue -- A Tragic Twist -- From Inclusion to Exclusion -- The Jewish Tragedy -- Imagining the Holocaust -- Above the City. Castle Hill -- The National Gallery -- Minus a Century -- The Church on the Hill -- and Below -- With a Pure Heart : Attila Jozsef -- On the Margin : Lajos Kassak -- The Spirit of Joseph Town -- Penetrating the Language Barrier -- Expatriates and Bank Robbers -- A Clothes Hanger Perspective.