David Vaughan

Through the alchemy of the radio sound archives we travel in time to 1968. We experience the great hopes and bitter disappointments of a dramatic year. 

The Ukrainian novelist Natalia Matolinets talks about her native city of Lviv and its similarities to Prague, and how both cities have inspired her writing.

Few people know that one of the most influential post-war Indian writers spent nearly ten years in Prague. The writer Ashutosh Bhardwaj talks about a fascinating link.

Helene Ritchie and her book telling the moving story of her search for her family’s past.

Helene Ritchie tells the moving story of her search for her family's past, beginning with a letter that her mother burned in 1945. 

Roma Holocaust Memorial Day sees the launch of a database bringing together survivors' testimonies. Kateřina Čapková talks about the project.

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.