Culture
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Wild Tides win Czech Radio competition
This week’s edition of the Sunday Music Show focuses on an up-and-coming Czech band called Wild Tides. The surf-punk trio from Prague is the fresh winner of Czeching, a…
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Interview with Czech author Miloš Urban
Czech author Miloš Urban has written such novels as The Seven Churches and Lord Mord. His works have been translated into a variety of languages asides from Czech…
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Prague Symphony Orchestra begins 80th season
The Prague Symphony Orchestra is celebrating 80 years of existence. The renowned orchestra was founded in the 1930s and to this day is abbreviated as F.O.K. which stands…
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Inspiration worked both ways, says artist Míla Fürstová of close collaboration with Coldplay
Míla Fürstová is currently enjoying a level of exposure that most artists can only dream of. The Czech’s exquisite etching of angel’s wings against the background of a…
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Colorfactory – Perhaps THE sound of mid ‘90s Prague
Formed by Englishman Colin Stuart, Colorfactory featured several Czech musicians who in their own right shaped the local music scene in the 1990s. Two of the latter…
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A Greeting from Castle Hill: an insider’s look into Prague Castle’s forgotten era
Prague Castle is considered one of the symbols of the Czech state. Once the seat of Bohemian kings, it now houses the Office of the Czech President, and its museums and…
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Dressing up the woman of sticks: the delightful ambiguities of Czech machine translation
If you have ever used a computer translation program you will know what curious things machines can come up with, as they try to cope with the complexities and ambiguities…
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Warhol kept home and work worlds separate and wouldn’t speak Carpathian outside family, recalls…
The recently opened Pop Art Centre in Prague’s Old Town features works by the likes of Roy Lichtenstein and Robert Indiana. But the biggest draw at the gallery on Husová…
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Man with a Guitar - Luboš Andršt
Luboš Andršt is a Czech blues, jazz and art-rock guitarist. In a career spanning close to half a century he has produced over a dozen solo albums, collaborated with…
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Mailbox
In the final edition of Mailbox in 2014: Random acts of kindness in the Czech Republic, listener criticism, suggestions and other feedback, answers to last month's quiz…
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Jakub Jan Ryba’s Czech Christmas Mass: an Xmas staple for millions of Czechs for over 200 years
One of the staples of the Czech Christmas’, along with fried carp, Christmas cookies and fairy tales, is Jakub Jan Ryba’s Christmas Mass. The mass composed by a small-town…
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Czechs musicians pay homage to Karel Kryl
This edition of Sunday Music Show is dedicated to the songs of the legendary protest singer Karel Kryl, interpreted by some of the best known Czech musicians, such as…
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