First episode of 2010 features a part of Nancy Franklin's New Yorker article about the Vancouver Olympics.

Theme music by Kartali László

Second-year student and two-time Blog Oscar Award winner Szvath Dóra narrates a passage from her short story, "Passengers." The full story is on her blog: http://senator888.blogspot.com

Theme music by Kartali László

An excerpt of a feature from the October 19, 2009 issue of The New Yorker.

Theme music by Kartali Lacek. Episode track: "Lions," by The Features.

"I’m not saying that it’s alright to be nervous all the time, but helping stressed-out people is always better than scolding them." This idea and more in Alexander's essay.

Theme tune by Kartali László. Music credit: Robyn Hitchcock and The Venus

Kartali Laci is the composer and musician of the new theme tune. Tune in to listen to that and to seven people from the first 49 episodes: Dani, Bernadett, Gergő, Steve, Lovorka, Anna, and Scott.

After this episode was published, Take Off really took off: it moved to 491st place overall. That's not bad with over 30,000 other podcasts trailing behind on Podomatic!

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Józsa Bernadett and Hudák Attila talk about two podcasts: Take Off and Tokyo Calling, the latter by my favorite podcaster, Scott Lockmann. Music credit: "Melt Down the Knives" by Sin Fang Bous.

Fulbright Professor Carol MacCurdy and I went to Paulus last week, and I asked her to talk about life and literature in the US. Snippets from the chat.

Excerpt from a story by Steven Millhauser.

Vasas Katalin's debut as a blog writer, plus Tomázy Dávid's and Ömböli Krisztián's stories.

On Wednesday, Rudolf Anna and I gave a talk to high-school students. In the episode: sound bites from the event.