Excess Baggage - 25/04/2009

Sandi Toksvig hears from two regular visitors to the Hungarian capital, Budapest. Nicholas Clapton, visiting professor at the Liszt Music University, fell in love with the city, particularly its musical life, which ranges from the high classical culture of the concert halls to the folk music of the cafes. Chris Maslanka is a writer who loves the different way of thinking there and the fact that in a cafe you are as likely to find a challenge to a game of chess as a gypsy band. But is it a way of life that is changing as Hungary becomes increasingly westernised? And has the way of life changed on the Isle of Wight? Roger George Clark went there regularly during the 1960s to photograph an England that hadn't quite modernised. Sandi hears how the island has changed - or not - after Roger recently went there again for the first time in 25 years.