117 perc - civilradio.net

117 perc is a Hungarian civic-radio magazine built on interviews that take their time. It does not rush the guest toward a punchline. Recent episodes show a program most comfortable when a public issue, cultural practice, or local artistic project needs more than a headline. The education conversations are the sharpest edge. They return again and again to the status law, teacher shortages, resignations, salary questions, public education orders, and the uncertainty facing schools at the start of a term. Gábor Gosztónyi appears as a recurring education voice, and the format lets him trace how legal language, government communication, European disputes, and classroom reality collide. These segments can be grave. They are also practical, asking who will teach, what happens to final classes, and how some institutions serving children can function without adequate resources. The show’s cultural side is less confrontational but just as detailed. A conversation about the Rondella Alkotókör follows Euróhíd Alapítvány, Kaleidoscope House, Rondella Gallery, Platán-themed work, artists, curators, and Esztergom’s local arts infrastructure. Another episode with Ábrahám Judit moves from Hungarian folk music and Transylvanian instruments into Rajasthani dance, performance, teaching, recordings, costume, posture, and joy in movement. A Cseh Tamás episode treats the singer’s phenomenon as memory, friendship, travel, criticism, and national culture rather than simple tribute. The common method is clear. The host opens a door, the guest walks through it, and the conversation keeps adding examples until the shape of the subject is visible. That can make the show repetitive in places, especially in translated transcript form, but the repetition serves clarification. 117 perc is for listeners who like radio as a civic habit: informed, local, discursive, and willing to sit with complexity. Its range is the point. One afternoon can hold policy argument, gallery life, folk-dance transmission, and Hungarian cultural memory without treating any of them as filler.