Culture
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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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The magic of Czech Christmas music
If any country in the world is home to the Christmas carol, it has to be the Czech Republic. The tradition of carolling goes back centuries, and Czech Christmas music is a…
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Some highlights of our Czechs in New York series
Earlier this year I flew to New York to record a series of special reports about Czechs in the city, visiting several important Czech institutions and speaking to dozens…
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It’s gigs a go go in today’s Prague
Before moving to Prague from Dublin in 1993, I was in the habit of going to a lot of rock concerts, and the relative dearth of decent gigs here took some time getting used…
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An interview with the best loved of all Czech actors
For this week’s programme, we have something of a treat: a long forgotten interview from our archives with someone who is nothing less than a Czech legend. If you ask just…
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