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Sunday Music Show
It’s a double-feature in the latest edition of the Sunday Music Show, featuring two of the most dynamic newer bands on the Czech music scene: Gipsy.cz and Toxique. Tune in…
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Markéta Baňková’s The Magpie in the Empire of Entropy
Last week saw the awarding of the annual Magnesia Litera awards for 2010 recognising excellence in Czech literature. The main award for book of the year went to the Jan…
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Protest singer Karel Kryl - an influential voice in Czech folk music
In today’s edition of our Sunday Music Show, we listen to music by the legendary Czechoslovak folk singer Karel Kryl. He became one of the country’s most important protest…
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Andrej Gina: recalling the poetry and poverty of the old Romany settlements
In today's Czech Books we meet a writer who is a master of the short story. Andrej Gina, who won the Open Society Institute's Roma Literary Award in 2003, lives in the…
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Exhibition at Prague Castle looks at remarkable life of forgotten Czech ‘Futurist’ Růžena Zátková
Last week saw the opening of a new exhibition at Prague Castle, Růžena: The Story of a Painter, focusing on the life and work of the remarkable early 20th century Czech…
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Internationally renowned “voyeur” photographer Miroslav Tichý dies at the age of 84
Miroslav Tichý, dubbed by some the enfant terrible of Czech photography, died on Tuesday in Kyjov, the south Moravian village where he lived and took his pictures. Many of…
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The film score genius Zdeněk Liška
Some of the best Czech films of the 1960s and 70s, such as Markéta Lazarová, Shop on Main Street, and The Cremator, have one thing in common, besides the country of origin…
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Sunday Music Show
In today’s edition of our Sunday Music Show we listen to more than 20 years of “avant-punk” band Už Jsme Doma, which will soon be performing it's 2,000th concert. Though…
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From Karel Čapek to Graham Greene: a Scottish poet’s memories of Prague
In a recent edition of Czech Books we looked at the Prague-inspired poetry of the Scottish poet, Edwin Muir. But it was not just in his poetry that Muir evoked the…
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Aero: cinema with an atmosphere
It’s Wednesday night and Kino Aero in Prague’s Žižkov district is swarming with people. Despite it’s slightly run down interior and uncomfortable creaky chairs this small…
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New tome captures genius of pioneer of Cubist architecture Josef Gočár
In Prague’s Old Town, on the corner of Celetná Street and Ovocný trh, you will find the House of the Black Madonna, one of the most distinctive structures in a city known…
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Brno hip hop band Čokovoko puts out new album
The Brno-based duo Čokovoko is one of the most unusual occurrences on the Czech music scene. The combination of amusing lyrics, unexpected sampling as well as rather crude…
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