David Vaughan

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. 

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.