Culture
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DVD series resurrects 1950s Czechoslovak Socialist Realist films
Filmy patří lidu (Films Belong to the People) is the title of a series of Socialist Realist pictures that have been released on DVD in the Czech Republic in recent months…
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Supraphon takes archive online
Supraphon has been the main record label for Czech music ever since 1932, and has been a major force in bringing Czech music to the rest of the world. Now as the world…
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Michael Kocáb, composer, rock star and human rights activist
In Sunday Music Show today, we’ll be listening to the music of Michael Kocáb. A distinct and versatile musician, Michael Kocáb also has a record as a human right activist…
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Ewald Osers: “a certain talent for languages”
Last month we heard the sad news of the death of Ewald Osers at his home in England at the age of 94. Born in Prague at a time when it was still part of the Austro…
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Alice Nellis – leading Czech filmmaker returns with Perfect Days
With dramas like Eeeny Meeny, Little Girl Blue and Mamas and Papas, Alice Nellis has become one of the best-known Czech filmmakers of her generation. The director and…
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Czech movie hits
In this week’s edition of the Sunday Music Show we'll 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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John Banville: claiming Kafka as an Irish writer
A few days ago the Booker Prize winning Irish writer John Banville was in Prague, to receive one of Europe’s most coveted literary awards, the Franz Kafka Prize. David…
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Time travel, Sci-Fi, films by Todd Haynes highlighted at 12th Mezipatra Queer Film festival
This Thursday saw the opening of the 12th annual Mezipatra Queer Film festival in the Czech Republic. In this week’s Arts, I talk to the head of the festival Aleš Rumpel…
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Czech underground legend Ivan Martin Jirous dies aged 67
One of the legends of the Czech underground, poet Ivan Martin Jirous, died in Prague on Thursday at the age of 67. Ivan Jirous, or Magor – literally “the crazy one” as he…
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Zdeněk Liška - the most prolific Czech film score composer
This week’s Sunday Music Show is dedicated to the late Czech film-score composer Zdeněk Liška who was recently rewarded posthumously by the Culture Ministry for his…
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The Polemics of Miloš Jiránek on view at National Gallery
This Thursday saw the opening of a new exhibition at the National Gallery’s Kinský Palace Stables Gallery marking 100 years since the death of post-impressionist painter…
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Josef Lada – landscape painter and Švejk illustrator
As one art critic once said, the paintings of Josef Lada accompany Czechs from cradle to grave. He is as well known for his illustrations of fairy tales and children’s…
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