Culture
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Death of troubled star raises questions over role of tabloids
The tragic life story of the 1980s Czech pop star Iveta Bartošová has come to a shocking end. After years of addiction and alcohol abuse and destructive personal relations…
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The 'coaches'
This edition of the Sunday Music Show features music by ‘Hlas’ coaches Pepa Vojtek, R&B singer Dara Rollins, Slovak rapper Majk Spirit and 1980s pop star turned…
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Young US actors honour child victims of Terezín
A group of young actors from Philadelphia in the US visited the Czech Republic last week to give a performance at the former Nazi concentration camp of Terezín. They…
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‘Adolf Loos – A Private Portrait’ offers readers a rare glimpse into the life of the modernist…
In today’s Arts I talk to artist and editor Carrie Paterson about the first English-language edition of a rare and fascinating book originally published in 1936. Written…
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Czech Easter music – from carols to cantatas
In the Czech Republic, celebrations of the moveable holiday of Easter combine Christian traditions and age-old pagan customs. Music plays an important part in the…
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Tomáš Kočko and Orchestra playing music from the Beskydy Mountains
On our Easter Sunday Music show we profile Tomáš Kočko a truly versatile musician who combines folk, rock, ethno and jazz. Tomáš Kočko and Orchestra have 9 CDs to their…
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Kůra festival of experimental art takes place in Kutná Hora
This Friday sees the start of Kůra - a two-day festival of experimental art and music held in a 19th century brewery in Kutná Hora, east of Prague. The fest is in just its…
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Architecture critic: Plan to make freight station cultural hub could work at least in part
Plans are afoot to turn a former railroad freight station in the Prague district of Žižkov into a new cultural hub. The culture minister signed a memorandum on Tuesday…
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Running café about far more than coffee and food, says Sladkovský’s Kateřina McCreary
Formerly a sleepy, in some parts grimy, neighbourhood, Vršovice has in recent times become one of the liveliest districts of Prague. Much of this activity centres on…
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‘Roll Out the Barrel’ composer Jaromír Vejvoda
This week’s Sunday Music Show is dedicated to a Czech composer and band member Jaromír Vejvoda whose work is probably a lot better known than he was in spite of his…
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Helga Weissová-Hošková: painting the truth of Terezín. Part 2
In the last Czech Books we met the artist Helga Weissová-Hošková, who talked about her remarkable wartime diaries. She drew and described what she saw and experienced in…
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Guide to wartime Prague wins top literary award
A guide to the nation’s capital under Nazi occupation has won the top Czech literary award. Guide to Protectorate Prague, which provides details of hundreds of locations…
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