I am a writer and documentary filmmaker, based in Budapest since 1986.
Since 1996 I have been the BBC Central Europe Correspondent.
Book titles include The Unfinished Revolution – Power and Powerlessness in Eastern Europe (2009), The Danube – A Journey Upriver (2014), The Road Before Me Weeps – On the Refugee route through Europe (2019), and Walking Europe's Last Wilderness – A Carpathian Journey (2024).
I have made 2 documentary film series: The Travels of a Gadjo in Romanistan (2014), and Against the Flow (2021).

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