Culture
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Sunday Music Show
This edition of our Sunday Music show takes you through two decades of Čechomor, once known as the 'Czechomoravian Music Society', a band of former rockers who have…
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Dominik Lang’s The Sleeping City to go up at 54th Venice Biennale
The 54th Venice Biennale is less than a month away and the installation representing the Czech and Slovak arts scenes at the national pavilion is now en route. Created by…
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Classical music fans descend on capital for 66th Prague Spring festival
Classical music fans are gearing up for one of the most prestigious events in the cultural calendar – the Prague Spring International Music Festival, which gets underway…
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Vláčil masterpiece Markéta Lazarová undergoes digital restoration work
Restoration work has begun on the late František Vláčil’s 1967 film masterpiece Markéta Lazarová, telling the story of a kidnapping and pure love in the drastic Middle…
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Moravian folk fusion band Hradišťan and Jiří Pavlica
Hradišťan is one of the country’s most respected performers of folk music. The band started as a folk music ensemble in the south Moravian town of Uherské Hradiště – hence…
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The joys and sorrows of this year’s Magnesia Litera awards
Last month saw the Czech Republic’s glitziest annual literary event, the presentation of the Magnesia Litera awards. The awards covered nine different categories…
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Laco Deczi – Jazz and real life in Prague and New York
American jazz trumpet player Laco Deczi - born in Czechoslovakia – needs little introduction, especially for anyone familiar with the world of jazz. At 73, Deczi hasn’t…
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Festival of animated film kicks off in Třeboň
On Tuesday the Anifilm festival got underway in the picturesque south Bohemian town of Třeboň, offering both adults and children some of the very best in animated cinema…
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Karel Hašler a patriot whose songs cost him his life
This edition of Radio Prague’s Sunday Music show is dedicated to one of the country’s great patriots – singer, composer and cabaret star Karel Hašler. Hašler’s love of his…
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Small theatre company puts Czech politics on stage
An impromptu production by a small theatre company has become all the rage in Prague. The title of the piece is Blond Bitch and the script is not by a well-known…
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The world renowned writer and ‘folk hero’ Jaroslav Hašek
The Czech writer Jaroslav Hašek is best known today for his hilarious anti-war novel The Good Soldier Švejk. Hašek’s own biography, however, is perhaps just as farcical…
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Easter Special
Radio Prague's special Easter programme focuses on the music of Czech composer and conductor Jaroslav Krček, who has arranged and recorded a number of traditional folk…
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