Culture
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The Prague Post Playwriting Contest - fostering English-language drama in Prague
With a large English-speaking community, it's perhaps surprising that Prague does not have an English-language theatre scene like those that can be found in other major…
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Petra Hulova: a rising star of the young generation of Czech writers
This edition of Czech Books comes from a café just off the Old Town Square, where I have come to talk to a novelist who has become a phenomenon of the Czech literary scene…
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Prague cinema packed for gala premiere of I Served the King of England
Prague's Slovansky Dum multiplex cinema was packed out on Wednesday evening for the gala premiere of Jiri Menzel's eagerly awaited I Served the King of England. The film…
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Recording process a dialogue, says Ecstasy of St Theresa's Jan P. Muchow
Ecstasy of St Theresa were founded in the early 1990s by Jan P. Muchow, who now also composes for films, as well as producing other artists and providing the music for…
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"Hitler watercolor" goes up for auction on Czech website
Years before becoming one of the worst mass murderers of all time, Adolf Hitler struggled to make ends meet as an artist. Paradoxically, while the exact whereabouts of the…
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Norbert Auerbach - From Barrandov to Hollywood
Norbert Auerbach moved here from Vienna at the age of two and grew up in Prague in the 1920s and '30s, the son of a very successful motion picture producer. Indeed, as a…
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"Sestka" exhibition series features works of up & coming photographers
Sestka - or "the Six" - is an ongoing series of exhibitions at the Prague House of Photography, featuring work by up-and-coming photographers from six of the country's…
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Pulitzer Prize winning novelist Michael Cunningham visits Prague for Writer's Festival event
Michael Cunningham is perhaps best known for his 1998 novel The Hours, which won both a Pulitzer Prize for fiction and the PEN/Faulkner award. The book was later made into…
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New album more organic, says Ecstasy of St Theresa's Jan P. Muchow
Ecstasy of St Theresa are among the most highly respected of Czech rock and pop groups. Formed by producer Jan P. Muchow in the early 1990s, the band went through a number…
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Ivan Kral: A Czech rock icon reflects on his life and career
Ivan Kral is perhaps the only Czech to have left his mark on the history of rock music. He was in an early incarnation of Blondie, worked with the great Patti Smith for a…
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Carp and Carols on Christmas Eve
One Christmas carol that doesn't hail from the Czech Republic is the one about Good King Wenceslas, although he is this country's patron Saint and ruled here in the 10th…
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Menzel serves up Hrabal, Yellow Sisters mix a cappella with African rhythm
Coming up in this week's programme - the eagerly-awaited release of Jiri Menzel's adaptation of I Served The King Of England by the legendary Czech author Bohumil Hrabal…
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