Town talks

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City Talks was an ORF broadcast on television.

The discussion programs were moderated by Helmut Zilk and replaced the youth discussion series that had been produced since 1956 . The first city talks were broadcast on March 24, 1963. The discussion programs, which were still unusual at the time - which also contained quite controversial topics (such as the connection in 1938) - had high audience ratings.

A program on September 24, 1964 that Zilk hosted together with Prague TV director Jiří Pelikán should be highlighted . The city talks Vienna-Prague took place in Prague, the direct broadcast enabled a certain circumvention of the censorship. At that time, Zilk managed to establish contacts with reform-oriented circles beyond the Iron Curtain . As a result, on the one hand the ORF gained a lot of trust from the population in what was then Czechoslovakia , on the other hand, under Pelikán, the censorship was further weakened in the following time. Only after the end of the Prague Spring was it strictly enforced again.

The last city talks took place on September 2, 1976 on the subject of “Our Reichsbrücke - Bridge with a Past”.

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