Czechs abroad
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Peter Bisek – publisher of the leading Czech and Slovak paper in US
Peter Bisek and his wife Vera edit and publish the leading Czech and Slovak newspaper in the United States, Americké listy. Mr Bisek is also the president of the Bohemian…
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Small numbers studying Czech at prestigious New York universities
In this edition of Panorama we meet some of those teaching and studying Czech at two of New York’s most prestigious universities. Our first stop is Columbia University…
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Professor Milan Fryščák – serving important Czech émigré organisations for many decades
Professor Milan Fryščák is a leading member of the US-based Czechoslovak Academy of Arts and Sciences and has been closely involved over the years with several other Czech…
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Jiří Stanislav – an actor turned politician
In this week's One on One, our guest is Jiří Stanislav, a politician and actor who spent half of his life abroad in Canada and the UK. Most recently he appeared in the…
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Czech dances and Kroje galore: The first annual 'Compatriot Folklore Festival'
If you were to enter the Salesianske theatre in Kobylisy this week, this is the kind of sound that would greet you. The event is the first annual 'Krajanske Folklorni…
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New York's Bohemian Hall may be completed in 2008
When a Czech-American group handed over a valuable piece of Manhattan real estate to the Czech Government in the year 2001, it was expected that the building would be…
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Jan Gregor - reporter for a London-based magazine for Czechs and Slovaks
Jan Gregor is a reporter for Echo, a magazine for Czechs and Slovaks living in the UK and Ireland. Jan, who comes from the Slovak city of Banska Bystrice, is himself one…
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Natasa Newton - helping young Czech and Slovak musicians play in the UK
Natasa Newton is one of the founders of the Anglo-Czechoslovak Trust, an organisation established not long after the fall of communism, in 1990. Its main aim was to foster…
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Ideas and experiences shared at Week of Czechs Living Abroad
Around 200 Czechs from around the world are currently meeting in Prague at the Tyden zahranicnich Cechu (Week of Czechs Living Abroad), which is taking place at Prague's…
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Czech community in Romania struggles to survive
A small community of Czechs have been living in the Banat region of south-western Romania for almost two hundred years. In many ways the area looks like the Czech lands…
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Milos Suchma - representing Canada's Czech and Slovak diaspora
Rob Cameron's guest in this week's One on one is Milos Suchma, chairman of the Czech and Slovak Association of Canada. The group represents Canada's large Czech and Slovak…
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Joyce Pritchard: visit to ancestral Czech villages in Romania "the trip of a lifetime"
In today's special programme we meet Joyce Pritchard, an American woman who recently went back to her roots, when she visited the isolated Czech villages in Romania from…
