Danny Bate
I may be completely English by origin, but I am also a committed Czechophile. After several years of occasional visits, I moved to the Czech Republic in 2019, initially to work as a language teacher. Certain global developments the following year made teaching difficult, so I was overjoyed to be given the chance in the summer of 2020 to undertake a PhD with the University of Edinburgh. For three and a half years, I carried out research in the academic field of linguistics, specifically on historical languages. During this time, Prague remained my home, but I had the good fortune to get to experience the delights of Scotland too.
I defended my thesis and completed the PhD in the spring of 2024. All throughout my studies, I developed my passion for public engagement and for sharing linguistics with a general audience. As well as through my writing, this personal mission involved audio adventures into podcasting. These in turn sparked a newfound passion for interviewing guests and creating interesting and entertaining content for listeners. When fate offered me this great opportunity to work for Radio Prague International, which perfectly combines my Czech interests and broadcasting aspirations, I jumped at the chance.
articles by the author
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Czech Music
Czech conductor Jakub Hrůša wins two 'classical music Oscars' for opera and concerto of the year
The winners of this year’s Gramophone awards include the Czech conductor Jakub Hrůša, who won in the categories of opera and concerto.
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House of history: Plzeň building, where German garrison surrendered in 1945, set to become museum
A Plzeň building partly designed by the architect Adolf Loos, in which the surrender of the German garrison occurred on May 6th 1945, is set to be renovated and repurposed.
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The road to the Munich Agreement: Ministry of Foreign Affairs opens its archives from September 1938
September 30 marks eighty-six years since the signing of the Munich Agreement. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs shared documents from the week before the infamous agreement.
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Anniversary of the Week
September 30th 1989: Minister Genscher opened the gates to the West for East German Refugees
35 years ago tomorrow, one of the most significant events of the end of the Cold War took place in the garden of the West German Embassy in Prague.
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Meet modern Czech authors at this year’s Brooklyn Book Festival
Six authors are representing the modern face of Czech literature at the Brooklyn Book Festival, an annual book fair that attracts tens of thousands of attendees.
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Czech Literature
September 27th: 100 years since the birth of author Josef Škvorecký
Today marks one hundred years since the birth of popular Czech-Canadian author Josef Škvorecký.
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“To all who care”: Initiative of academics, students and relatives seeks to change firearms laws
Nine months after the attack at Charles University’s Faculty of Arts, a group of students, academics and family members of victims have launched a petition.
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Old’s Cool: Two-day festival in aid of Czechia’s senior citizens
This week sees the return of the annual Old’s Cool festival, put on by the non-profit organisation Elpida.
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Powering up Prague: City aims to have a thousand charging stations for electric cars
The company Technology of the Capital City of Prague is working on a considerable increase in the number of charging stations for electric cars around Prague.
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Nuclear energy and global security: topics on the table in South Korean president’s visit to Czechia
The South Korean president, Yoon Suk Yeol, has just paid a two-day official visit to Czechia. The visit is part of efforts to form even closer ties between the countries.
