Culture
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Protektor wins Best Picture at Czech Lion Awards
While all eyes were on the awarding of the Oscars in Los Angeles on Sunday, the main event in cinema in the Czech Republic came a day earlier with the awarding of the…
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Prague-based fusion band Al-Yaman releases new album Insanyya
It’s a long way from the Czech Republic to Yemen, but you can cover the distance of nearly 6,000 km between the Czech capital and the coastal city of Aden in less than an…
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Will Mucha’s gigantic Slav Epic be shown in Japanese museum?
Japanese promoters have expressed interest in bringing to Japan one of the most grandiose pieces in the history of Czech art, Alphonse Mucha’s Slav Epic. They are even…
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Art historian Anna Fárová dies at 81
The acclaimed Czech champion of photography Anna Fárová died in Prague at the age of 81 over the weekend. Ms Fárová catalogued and exhibited the works of some great Czech…
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Edwin Muir: a Scottish poet in Prague
Literature sometimes makes for some unusual connections. What, for example, could Franz Kafka possibly have in common with the Orkney Islands off the north coast of…
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Karel Kryl – the Czech "poet with a guitar"
The Czech folk singer Karel Kryl is the subject of this edition of Music Profile. His well-known debut album “Bratříčku, zavírej vrátka” was published six months after the…
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Vladimíra Krčková, a young jazz singer who lives in Prague
Vladimíra Krčková recently performed at Life Fashion Café in Prague. She sang songs like “Once I had a secret love”, originally written for Doris Day in the 1950s…
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Group behind ice statue of Michael Jackson want permanent memorial in Prague
The Czech Republic has been covered in snow and ice for over a month and many people are thoroughly tired of the weather here. But one group of Czech Michael Jackson fans…
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Czech-born photographer Werner Forman dies in London
The widely respected Czech photographer Werner Forman, who settled in Great Britain in the late 1960s, died in London on Saturday. His work took him to many parts of the…
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Czech PEN club marks 85 years of promoting freedom of speech
The Czech PEN club on Monday marked its 85th anniversary. Established in Prague just three years after the worldwide association of writers was founded in London in 1922…
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Film roundup with critic Ilona Francková
It’s that time of the year again for the Czech film industry; the red carpet is about to come out for the Czech Lions – that is, the top Czech film prize awarded by the…
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Fifteen-year-old Russian pianist wins Concertino Praga 2010
Concertino Praga – Czech Radio’s prestigious international competition for young musicians – has just announced the winners of this year’s event. The aim of the…
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