Culture
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Lisa Peschel: rediscovering the forgotten theatre of Terezín
During the Second World War, over 140,000 people were imprisoned in the Terezín ghetto north of Prague. Their only crime was to be Jewish. One in four died in the ghetto…
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Václav Havelka – Selfbrush and Please the Trees man does it his way
Václav Havelka is a man of many talents. He promotes rock concerts, presents a radio programme and runs a small music label. But first and foremost he is a musician; solo…
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Photos of events following death of Jan Palach feature in new exhibition
The horrible death of Jan Palach shook the Czechoslovak nation. In the ten days between Palach’s self-immolation and his massive funeral, the country saw a number of…
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Czechs mourn architect Jan Kaplický
The world of Czech culture is in mourning following the death of the renowned architect Jan Kaplický, who passed away on Wednesday evening. The loss is not just a major…
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Satchmo and the liberating power of jazz
Nothing better symbolizes the political thaw in 1960s Czechoslovakia than the boom in jazz, which many saw as embodying the very idea of individual expression and freedom…
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Václav Havel in underground poetry exhibit opens in Prague
Václav Havel is known as the first president of the Czech Republic, an anti-communist dissident, and a playwright. A new exhibition, which opened in Prague on Tuesday…
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Toxique: Bringing a progressive edge to Czech pop music scene
One of the most exciting bands to emerge on the Czech music scene over the last 12 months is the funky and progressive pop group known as Toxique. Headed by singer Klara…
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Nancy Bishop - a Prague-based casting director
My guest today is Nancy Bishop, an American-born woman who works as a casting director in Prague. Apart from this, she also teaches potential actors how to become more “…
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Tereza Brdečková: perspectives on truth, history and cosmopolitanism
For this week's Czech Books I visited a very well known author, Tereza Brdečková, in her flat in Malá Strana, the oldest quarter in Prague. She's an author who seems to…
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As 70th anniversary is marked, Czech author’s works now in public domain
The noted Czech author Karel Čapek is perhaps best known for coining the term “robot” in his 1921 play “Rossum’s Universal Robots”. Now, as Czechs mark seventy years since…
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Waldemar Matuška: the 1970s heartthrob known as the ‘nightingale from Madrid’
This month’s Music Profile is dedicated to the prodigious Czech singing talent Waldemar Matuška. An excellent actor to boot, Matuška starred in, and sang on the…
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Film and TV fairytales – an essential part of Czech Christmas
One of the most traditional elements of any Czech Christmas – hand in hand with Jakub Jan Ryba’s Christmas Mass, golden mistletoe, winter scenes by Josef Lada, and carp…
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