Culture
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Author Jaroslav Rudiš discusses Alois Nebel – graphic novel and film focussing on the fog of…
In this week’s Arts, I speak to Jaroslav Rudiš, the author of an influential graphic novel (trilogy, actually) that delves into the fog of history and troubled Central…
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New documentary depicts actor Jiří Voskovec’s life in US
A new documentary that will premiere in Czech cinemas next week depicts the lesser known part of the life of the Czech-born actor Jiří (or George) Voskovec. In his…
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Czech theatrical legend Jiří Suchý turns 80
The popular Czech actor, singer, songwriter, playwright, painter, screenwriter and director Jiří Suchý turned 80 on Saturday. In top form, the living legend of Czech…
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Singer and songwriter James Harries
In this edition of our Sunday Music Show we talk to singer, songwriter and guitarist James Harries, a Manchester native who has lived and worked in the Czech Republic for…
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Tax breaks threaten Czech film industry
Radio Prague is introducing Screen Czech - a monthly show devoted to film and TV production here in the Czech Republic. Over the next few months Peter Smith will be…
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Edith Pargeter: an English novelist in Prague
This week would have been the 98th birthday of Edith Pargeter, an English writer who translated many of the Czech classics. You may well have come across her under the…
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Photographer Jiří Jírů on life behind the Iron Curtain, exile and ‘Photostroika’
Jiří Jírů developed a love for photography from his uncle, the avant-garde Czech photographer Václav Jírů, before studying the discipline in Brussels and working for US…
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A tale of two brothers, and the building of a nation
For the occasion of September 28, we're here at a place that some people actually call the real centre of the Czech Republic. Not the geographic centre to be sure, but…
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Egon Erwin Kisch – the Raging Reporter
One of Prague’s best known German-language authors was Egon Erwin Kisch, who was born in the Czech capital 125 years ago this Thursday. His excellent style and original…
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Christopher Harwood – professor of Czech at Columbia University
Christopher Harwood is a lecturer in Czech at Columbia University in New York. When I met him at his office on Columbia’s Upper West Side campus, we discussed Czech…
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Antonín Dvořák - a personal tribute
On this week’s Sunday Music Show we mark the birthday of Antonín Dvořák, who would have 170 candles on his cake this year. Unfortunately he only lived to the age of 63…
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A Prague poet “infinitely better known than Shakespeare”
In Czech Books this week we find out about the life and times of an English-born Renaissance poet who spent nearly all her life in Prague and in her time was more…
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