Welcome Radio Cafe listeners!

On Tuesday, June 3, Michael and Linda were guests on the Legal Alien program of Radiocafé 98.6 here in Budapest. Legal Alien is a weekly English language show that focuses on expat life and features interviews with English-speaking expats about their lives here, their work, and their impressions of their host country. We hope to have audio of the interview soon, so that if you missed it, you can listen on the web right here on the Salon blog. :o)

If you've just learned about us from Legal Alien, welcome! We invite you to browse through our website to learn more about the Ráday Salon. On the left hand menu you will find general information about the Salon and its hosts, and on the right hand side, you can click the links to read more about some of the topics we have addressed in our Salon evenings over the years. Or, you can just read down the front page to see what we've been up to recently. To be notified of upcoming events, you can join our mailing list.

At the end of the Legal Alien program this Tuesday, we played a favorite song of ours: Ella's Song, by the African-American acappella group Sweet Honey in the Rock. It was written by Bernice Johnson Reagon, the foremost singing voice of the African American Civil Rights movement. The lyrics are based on the life and writings of Ella Jo Baker, the intellectual and spiritual mentor of the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). The song, which speaks of the need to keep struggling against injustice, is  rooted in the fight against racism in the US, but it could just as well be addressing the oppression of Roma in Europe. If you'd like to hear the song again, you can use the player below. (Lyrics available here.) The song itself can be downloaded in mp3 format (for $0.99 USD) at Amazon.com.

More information on the Legal Alien show can be found on the Radiocafé 98.6 website here (top half of page in Hungarian; scroll down for English). Legal Alien airs every Tuesday night from 8-9pm -- tune in!  If you would like to listen online, instructions are here (scroll down for English).