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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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Omerzu’s Winter Flies cleans up at 2019 Czech Lions
Winter Flies by Olmo Omerzu swept this year’s Czech Lion national film awards at the weekend. The road movie picked up no fewer than six prizes, including the coveted Best…
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Javory: folk music with a difference
Long before the term world music became widely used the brother-and sister duo Petr and Hana Ulrychovi played Moravian folk songs with electric guitars. Later, in search…
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Ikarie XB 1: New release for Czech sci-fi classic that foreshadowed Star Trek and 2001: A Space…
The classic Czech sci-fi film Ikarie XB 1 looks set to find fresh audiences with a new Blu-ray release next week. A number of major figures in the history of Czech cinema…
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Prague’s Febiofest movie showcase “for everybody” gets underway
Prague’s biggest movie event, Febiofest, kicks off on Thursday. Now in its 26th year, the festival gives many movies set for local cinema distribution their first…
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