NICK THORPE (Upnor, England, 1960) has lived in Budapest since 1986, reporting on East Central Europe and the Balkans for the BBC, The Independent, The Guardian and The Observer newspapers. Since 1996, he has been the BBC Central Europe correspondent. His book ’89 The Unfinished Revolution – Power and Powerlessness in Eastern Europe was published by Reportage Press in London in November 2009. His next book, on the River Danube, will be published by Yale University Press in 2013.