Culture
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Portrait artist and painter Marie Gabánková
Marie Gabánková is a noted portrait artist, painter and teacher. She was born in Ostrava and left Czechoslovakia with her family shortly after the Soviet invasion of 1968…
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Radůza’s new album City of Steel
In this edition: the Czech singer, composer and multi-instrumentalist Radůza has released a new album entitled Ocelový město, or City of Steel. The album, acclaimed for…
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The House of the Black Madonna – home of the only surviving Cubist café in the world
Nestled between busy Wenceslas Square and Prague’s number one tourist destination, Old Town Square, the House of the Black Madonna houses a small museum of Cubism as well…
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Composer Geraldine Mucha dies aged 95 in Prague
On Friday, Scottish composer Geraldine Mucha passed away in Prague, which has been her home for most of the past 70 years. Author of numerous musical works, large-scale…
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Jiří Votruba – artist whose work helps form visitors’ image of Prague
Anyone who has been to Prague is extremely likely to have seen some of the work of artist Jiří Votruba. Posters, postcards and t-shirts bearing his distinctive brightly…
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Czech movie hits
In this week’s edition of the Sunday Music Show well be focussing on music in Czech film – rock and pop hits from the 1960s up to the Noughties. Everything from more…
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Pavol Rankov: a Slovak novelist found by Czechs in translation
When the Slovak writer Pavol Rankov published his novel “It Happened on September the First (or Whenever)” in 2009, it came just after the Slovak national football team…
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My house is my castle: the best and worst in village architecture
You may know the feeling – you return to your native village after a long absence and come across an eyesore – a building that screams “money, power and influence” and…
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Pavel Bobek - a Czech country legend
In this edition of Sunday Music Show, we listen to some of the big hits of Pavel Bobek - one of the country's most popular country and rock'n roll singers.
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Prague’s Rudolfinum Gallery explores the reality of contemporary British painting
A new exhibition at the Rudolfinum Gallery in Prague presents the work of 12 contemporary British artists. Entitled Beyond Reality: British Painting Today, the exhibit…
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Sára Vondrášková, an invigorating new voice taking jazz in her own direction
The sultry voice of young Sara Vondrášková there in the song Lay Down, which has launched her from the cafes and clubs of Prague to the silver screen, as the title song…
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Two voices
This week’s Sunday music show is devoted to a refreshing female duo called Two Voices. At first glance they have little in common - Jana Rychterova is a classic chanson…
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