Culture
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Petr Borkovec: between suburbia and the wilderness of nature
This week we look at a very fruitful literary friendship between one of the best known contemporary Czech poets, Petr Borkovec, and the Prague-based Irish poet, Justin…
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"The People of Prague Pay Homage To Me" - a tribute to Mozart
In this week's Arts, we visit the Mirror Chapel of Prague's Clementinum, where a new exhibition has just opened. It is part of the MOZART PRAGUE 2006 project launched this…
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New role for pop legend Karel Gott - endorsing foodstuffs
At 67 Karel Gott remains the country's biggest pop star. In a long and very successful career he has sold tens of millions of albums in the Czech Republic, Germany and…
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Ludvik Vaculik writes about Moravian songs and music as a part of life
Ludvik Vaculik, one of the Czech Republic's most popular authors, has a new book out, "Polepsene pesnicky," or "Improved Folk Songs." It's an absolutely unique volume…
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Franz Kafka Society lauds Japanese writer Murakami
Haruki Murakami—perhaps the greatest living Japanese author—is currently here in the Czech capital. The main purpose of his visit is to collect the annual Franz Kafka…
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Simon Broughton - world music aficionado and committed Czechophile
Simon Broughton is a leading British television director whose work includes a number of documentaries on music from around the world, shot in locations ranging from…
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Viktor Kalabis 1923-2006: a well-tempered composer with a dramatic musical voice
Few people over the last half century have made an impact on Czech classical music that comes anywhere close to that of the composer Viktor Kalabis, who died on 28th…
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MOFFOM festival returns to Prague with a bang
In the Arts this week we look at Prague's annual Music on Film - Film on Music festival or MOFFOM as it's known, which was held for the third time last week. This year's…
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Hedy Fromings - part 2
Hedy Fromings was born Hedvika Honigenova in 1926. In the late 1940s she left Czechoslovakia, moving to the UK - where she had spent the war years - with her English…
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Czech pop band Krystof back with new album "Rubikon"
A number of years ago the Czech band Krystof - led by frontman Richard Krajco - broke onto the Czech pop scene with their first album "Magneticke Pole" (Magnetic Fields…
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Festival celebrates vibrant Czech comic scene
On Tuesday the first ever festival of comic art in Prague - KomiksFEST2006 - officially opened at the Svetozor art theater, just a stone's throw from Wenceslas Square…
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Milan Kundera's "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" finally released in Czech Republic
It's been nine years since Czech readers have had a chance to buy a new novel by Milan Kundera, but at last the most eagerly anticipated release will hit bookstore shelves…
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