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Czech bluegrass band Druhá Tráva live at Telč summer festival
The Czech bluegrass band Druhá tráva has just released a new album Telč. One part of the album captures the band’s concert at a summer festival in the town of Telč last…
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From Oslo to Omsk and beyond: a Norwegian in search of Švejk
Ever since Jaroslav Hašek first thought him up in the early 1920s, the “Good Soldier Švejk” has been one of the best loved characters in Czech literature, as he undermines…
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Prague Playhouse stages new production of Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol”
The Prague Playhouse, a successful English-language theatre company based in the Czech capital since 2003, premieres its new production of Charles Dickens’ timeless tale A…
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Alois Nebel wins European Film Award for animation
The historical drama Alois Nebel won the European Film Award for best animated feature film in Malta over the weekend. Its director Tomáš Luňák thus became the third Czech…
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Kuře v hodinkách by Flamengo – A classic Czech rock LP revisited
The prog-fusion LP Kuře v hodinkách (Chicken in the Watch) by Flamengo, which was reissued this year on the 40th anniversary of its original release, is regarded as one of…
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Modrý tygr (The Blue Tiger) wins Best Picture at Kinodiseea
Just a few days ago a Czech/Slovak/German children’s film called Modrý tygr (The Blue Tiger, released earlier this year) won the award for Best Picture at the Kinodiseea…
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Petra Janů – One of the Czech Republic’s most versatile singers turns 60
This week the popular Czech performer Petra Janů celebrated her 60th birthday with a sold-out concert at Prague’s Lucerna and a compilation three CD release. Well-wishers…
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Mark Baker – Prague-based travel writer and journalist
Mark Baker is a travel writer and journalist. He first visited Prague as a student in 1984 and began living here, after a stint in Vienna, in the early 1990s. Since then…
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Ricky Gervais on world’s first stage version of cult TV series The Office
The BBC comedy series The Office has been sold to more than 80 countries around the world, and local versions have been made in the United States, France, Germany, Chile…
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Veto of film incentives ignores economic benefits, says producer Matthew Stillman
Czech President Václav Klaus this week vetoed a bill which would enhance state support for Czech filmmakers and increase tax incentives for foreign film productions. The…
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Yellow Sisters: a capella with an African twist
In this week’s Sunday Music Show we listen to music by the soulful a capella group Yellow Sisters and speak with one of its four members Bára Vaculíková (and her young…
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Alex Zucker: the challenge of making translations visible
We have featured plenty of contemporary Czech novelists in this programme over the last decade, but we should spare a thought for their translators, patiently working at…
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