Culture
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Famous Art Nouveau gem set to reopen
The famous Jurkovič House in Brno, belonging to the Moravian Gallery in Brno, will reopen to the public in roughly two week’s time following extensive renovation. Designed…
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Radim Špaček, director of Walking Too Fast: if you wait long enough it will happen
The psychological thriller Walking Too Fast recently triumphed at Czech Lions, winning five awards including best Czech film of 2010. The movie, set in the early 1980s…
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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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Stephen Weeks: a story of Prague on the edge of a cliff
The British writer, director and film producer, Stephen Weeks, is fascinated by the past and he relishes exploring the unexpected and sometimes uncomfortable details that…
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Out My Window – A 360 degree internet documentary examines lives behind the gray walls of the…
In this week’s Arts I talk to Czech-Canadian documentary filmmaker Katerina Cizek – the director of Out My Window, a fascinating and highly-innovative project that looks…
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Sunday Music Show
In our Sunday Music Show this week, you’ll have a chance to sample some of the hits from the communist era. In those times, popular music was under a tight control of the…
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Věra Chase: death, strawberries and a dip in the Baltic
Věra Chase is one of the most original voices in contemporary Czech writing. She has just finished putting together a collection of her poetry, both new poems and old…
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First part of Czech classic The Good Soldier Švejk published 90 years ago
It has been 90 years since the publication of the first part of, Jaroslav Hašek’s The Good Soldier Švejk. The four-part novel (which Hašek failed to complete before his…
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Call for Czechs to reclaim lost literary heritage by buying Franz Kafka letters
Preparations are being made to recover what is being dubbed a part of the lost literary heritage of Prague and the Czech Republic. These are some of the many letters…
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The man who was willing to pay the price: film director Otakar Vávra turns 100
Czech film director Otakar Vávra celebrated his 100th birthday on Monday. In his extraordinary career, Mr Vávra made over 50 movies, enjoyed by audiences in all of the…
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Author Arnošt Lustig dies at 84
The Czech Jewish writer, Arnošt Lustig died in Prague on Saturday at the age of 84. A survivor of several Nazi concentration camps, he made the Holocaust the central theme…
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Sunday Music Show
Don’t miss this week’s edition of the Sunday Music Show with our guest Jan Žampa, the frontman for the talented and popular alternative pop band Eddie Stoilow. He joins us…
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