Culture
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Operators: Millions spent every year on fire safety at Prague’s St. Vitus Cathedral
Attention has been focused on fire safety elsewhere following Monday’s devastating blaze at Paris’s Notre-Dame. The Czech equivalent, Prague’s St. Vitus Cathedral, is…
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Festival showcases Czech films around US and Canada
Czech That Film, an annual festival of contemporary Czech films, is currently underway across the United States and Canada. The largest Czech cultural event in North…
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Lazer Viking – Decidedly not a Drag on latest release
Lazer Viking are very much the brainchild of Jakub Kaifosz, who also records with Wild Tides and is a Radio Wave DJ. Following Radical Karaoke (2015) and Flesh Cadillac …
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Prague’s DOX to commemorate Tiananmen Sq. massacre with unveiling of Liu bust
A bust of the late Chinese dissident and Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo is due to be unveiled at Prague’s DOX gallery this coming Monday. The ceremony is part of an…
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Journey to the Beginning of Time – Czechoslovakia’s 1950s Jurassic Park digitally remastered
Sixty years after first being shown in cinemas, Karel Zeman’s time-travel adventure movie Journey to the Beginning of Time is set to grace cinema screens again. The film…
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Pianist Thomas Zaruba on his best-selling album Slow Down and the need to reach out to his audience
Thomas Zaruba, author of the best-selling jazz album Slow Down, is a pianist of Australian-Canadian-Czech origin living in France. Although he was born into a cosmopolitan…
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Radio Prague alumna Pavla Horáková wins Magnesia Litera award for novel ‘A Theory of Strangeness’
By far the country’s swankiest annual literary event, the Magnesia Litera awards, covering nine categories, including prose, poetry, blogs and translations, were broadcast…
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Romany music from the Czech Republic
On the eve of International Roma Day, Radio Prague is featuring music by some of the country’s best Romany singers.
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New art guide to Prague reveals lesser known cultural hotspots
A new guide to Prague, called Curator, attempts to show the city to locals and tourists in a different light. A group of three art historians have handpicked the best of…
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Folk-rock singer Zuzana Michnová turns 70
Czech singer and songwriter Zuzana Michnová, one of the most distinct vocalists on the Czech folk rock scene, is celebrating her 70th birthday. The legendary singer is…
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Acclaimed Czech-born author and essayist Milan Kundera, still an enigma at 90
The celebrated Czech-born author Milan Kundera turns ninety on April 1st. True to form, the reclusive writer – who hasn’t granted an interview in decades – has insisted…
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Granddaughter loses right to license Little Mole products in latest legal twist
The most famous Czech cartoon character, Krteček, or the Little Mole, has been the centre of legal disputes for some time. Now a court has ruled that the granddaughter of…
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