David Vaughan

A hundred years ago, on 18 May 1923, listeners were first able to hear regular radio broadcasts from Prague. We take a journey through the radio archives.

We have a taste of sugarcane from China, we meet a Jewish boy who remembers his own circumcision, and a teenager from Brno takes us to a twilight zone of the unexplained.

A Stitch in Time: Part 5 - On Cowsheds and Velvet Dresses

We hear four stories set in the Czech or Moravian countryside in the years after WWII – tales of ordinary people living through times that were anything but ordinary. 

A Stitch in Time: Part 4 – Three Heroes

In three tales of heroism, we are taken to a small Czech town during the wartime occupation, to India during the struggle for independence and into the skies in 1944. 

A Stitch in Time: Part 3 – Exile and Return. Fourteen-year-old Eva Nováková wrote a short radio play to draw us into the world of her great-grandmother, Olga Szántová.

Fourteen-year-old Eva Nováková chose the format of a short radio play to draw us into the world of her great-grandmother, broadcasting legend, Olga Szántová.

Our journey into the recent past as seen by the youngest generation continues with a classic tale of European emigration in search of the American dream.

In this new series we look at the recent past through the eyes of the youngest generation. Children and teenagers explore the rich world of their families' history.