David Vaughan

Less than three weeks after the Czech Republic's parliamentary elections the victorious Social Democrats have hammered out an agreement to form a new coalition government…

Czech international football player Vladmir Smicer has been offered a new contract by Liverpool, while promising young goalkeeper Petr Cech looks set to join Everton if he…

This could be the end of an era in broadcasting. On Tuesday evening the president of the American-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty announced that funding for the…

Jiri Kral is chef at the French restaurant in the Art Nouveau "Obecni dum" just off Republic Square in Prague. He is one of the Czech Republic's most accomplished cooks…

For the first time ever the United Nations General Assembly is to be headed by a Czech. Following Friday's decision by Belarus to withdraw its candidacy, the outgoing…

The Czech Republic has one of the highest prison populations in the developed world. One person in every five hundred is currently behind bars. Prison reform is the…

One of the main fears in the weeks leading up to the Czech parliamentary elections was that the outcome would be inconclusive, followed by long and agonizing talks to put…

In July 1997 floods swept through the city of Ostrava in the east of the Czech Republic. The entire district of Hrusov was devastated, leaving dozens of Roma families…

And now some news about a writing competition that listeners here in the Czech Republic or in Britain might be interested in taking part in. But you'll have to be quick…

In 1942 Hana Lustigova, now Greenfield, was a teenager in the town of Kolin, east of Prague. Along with her mother and sister, she was sent by the Nazis to the Terezin…