Culture
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Lenka Lichtenberg, Part 2: Czech synagogue recordings perhaps biggest project of my life
Singer Lenka Lichtenberg was born in Prague where she was a child star with the Semafor theatre in the 1960s. Several years after her emigration to Canada, and well into…
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Lenka Lichtenberg’s Songs from the Breathing Walls – a poignant tribute to lost Jewish communities
Prague-born, Canada-based Lenka Lichtenberg recorded the haunting Songs from the Breathing Walls at a dozen synagogues in Bohemia and Moravia. Chiefly comprising Jewish…
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Travelling exhibition brings together more than 500 Bibles from private collections
A travelling exhibition entitled The Bible: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow, on in the eastern city of Ostrava, is giving visitors the opportunity to view than 500 different…
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Lenka Lichtenberg, Part 1: Taste of freedom as ‘60s child star sparked later emigration
Prague-born world music artist Lenka Lichtenberg is today based in Canada and sings in many languages, including English, French, Hebrew and Yiddish. But many Czechs of a…
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Radůza’s new album traces history of war
In this edition of Sunday Music Show we look at a new album by the popular Czech singer, composer and multi-instrumentalist Radůza, called Marathon – příběh běžce or…
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Acclaimed directing duo SKUTR about “teenage fighter” Tereza Voříšková and their new production of…
In this week’s Arts, meet SKUTR – the acclaimed directing duo Martin Kukučka and Lukáš Trpišovský. They directed one of the hits of the summer cultural calendar, Romeo and…
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Morricone to record score of Tarantino’s Hateful Eight in Prague this weekend
The great Ennio Morricone is due in Prague this weekend to record the score for the new Quentin Tarantino movie The Hateful Eight. Though the veteran composer is closely…
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Tramping to freedom
A new Czech documentary called Amerika, which has recently premiered at the Karlovy Vary International Festival, explores the unique Czech pastime known as tramping…
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Prague streets showcase acrobatic talent
A helium balloon carrying an acrobat rose in the air above Prague’s Industrial Palace on Monday, marking the start of the city’s annual street festival Za dveřmi or Behind…
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James Ragan – the “Czechoslovak” US poet who spends every summer at Václav Havel’s old flat
James Ragan is a US poet, screenwriter, playwright and teacher with extremely strong Czechoslovak ties. Indeed some of his siblings were born in Eastern Slovakia before…
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The band Šlapeto Patrola brings back some of Prague’s popular pub songs
In this edition of Sunday Music we will be playing songs of Old Prague by the band Šlapeto and the Šlapeto revival band Patrola. They bring back the days of Prague at the…
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Mailbox
Today in Mailbox: Interview with a Radio Prague listener, response to RP programme, monthly listeners’ competition. Listeners/readers quoted: Doug Grant, Louise Parslow…
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