Culture
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Czech computer games firm hopes for deliverance from medieval project
One of the biggest events is taking place in the Czech computer games markets with the official launch of Kingdom Come: Deliverance. The game is the creation of a…
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Artist Hynek Martinec: To me Old Masters are contemporary
Hynek Martinec first came to international attention when a painting of his girlfriend Zuzana earned him the British National Portrait Gallery’s BP Young Artist Award in…
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Ireland’s Good Soldier Švejk reaches Prague
All the characters in Máirtín Ó Cadhain’s great Irish-language comic novel Cré na Cille are dead. The title could be translated as Graveyard Clay and the setting is a…
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Jiří Šiftař: The Czech whose London photos helped make him huge on Instagram
With over a quarter of a million followers, Jiří Šiftař must be one of the most popular Czechs on Instagram. Going by the name Jeera on the photograph sharing service, he…
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Franz Fühmann and the Sudetenland dreaming
Franz Fühmann (1922-1984) was one of East Germany’s most widely read writers. He is also one of few that have stood the test of time. He grew up in Czechoslovakia in…
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Czechs pay tribute to photographic great Josef Koudelka
Josef Koudelka, one of the greatest living Czech photographers and the only Czech to become a member of the prestigious Magnum Photo agency, turns 80 on Wednesday. Czechs…
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2018 Iranian film fest highlights shorts by upcoming directors
Iranian cinema has been among the most critically acclaimed in the world in recent years. Czech audiences have been able to enjoy the cream of the country’s movies thanks…
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Documentarian Kateřina Hager: Some parents don’t even know social networks their children are on…
The documentary Children Online shines a highly revealing light on how the lives of kids in the Czech Republic are increasingly shaped, if not dominated, by the internet…
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Pop rock by Mandrage
In this Sunday Music we feature music by the Mandrage, a Plzeň-based band whose music ranges from soft and pop-rock to pop-punk.
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The Toymaker: scars of the Holocaust in Prague and Melbourne
At the end of 2015 the Australian novelist and essayist Liam Pieper was Prague’s first writer-in-residence through the UNESCO City of Literature programme. His two months…
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The music fanatic in communist Czechoslovakia and the Radio Luxembourg DJ – an unlikely friendship
Jan Šesták was a music-obsessed mega-fan of Radio Luxembourg, tuning in every evening, despite the risks, in communist Czechoslovakia. Tony Prince was a top DJ on the…
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Ballroom dancing still part of the Czech lifestyle
Czechoslovakia gained independence in 1918. But even now, after nearly a century you can find customs and traditions that are very similar to most countries that formed…
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