Culture
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Sunday Music Show
In this edition of Sunday Music Show, Peter Smith plays hits from chart topping Czech artists including 4Life and Kristof. There is also a chance to hear the vocal talents…
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Barrandov Studios
In this month’s show we will be talking a look behind the hallowed grey facade of one of the Czech Republic’s most famous institutions – Barrandov Studios, which is…
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Robert Fulghum’s tango for one in Prague
The best-selling American writer Robert Fulghum has such an enthusiastic following in the Czech Republic that he has published several of his books here in Czech…
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Music of the First Republic
The independence of Czechoslovakia, which we celebrate each October 28, was the result of a movement of many decades, and when at least it came, in 1918, after four hard…
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Author Daniela Hodrová and translator Martin Hilský to receive top Czech literary awards
In a tradition going back to 1920, on the eve of October 28, marking the birth of Czechoslovak independence, the Czech Culture Ministry grants annual State Awards to…
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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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Kolín - more than just a railway junction
Surrounded by railway sidings and industrial estates, it's easy to get the impression that Kolín is simply a town travellers pass through on the way from the Czech capital…
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Czech Catholic literature 1918-1945: from utopia to despair
Opposed, later persecuted – and finally forgotten. That was the fate of many Czech Catholic writers, who stood outside the literary mainstream. In one of Europe’s most…
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Hana Hegerová, the Czech Edith Piaf, turns 80
“The Great Lady of Chanson”, “Edith Piaf from Prague” or a “Chanteuse with a Slavic Soul” – that’s how critics have described Hana Hegerová, the Czechoslovak singer who…
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Rabindranath Tagore: an Indian poet who inspired a Czech generation
This year is the 150th anniversary of the birth of the great Bengali poet, Rabindranath Tagore, the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913…
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Pinter’s "In Other Rooms" at Divadlo Na Zábradlí
In this week’s Arts, I talk to David Peimer, professor of theatre at University College in the UK, also involved with the Pinter Centre for Performance and Creative…
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Music by much-loved pop star Miro Žbirka
In this edition of the Sunday Music Show we profile Slovak pop star Miro Žbirka. The Prague-based singer, widely known by his nickname Meky, released his first album in…
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