David Vaughan

The Giant Mountains - a world of legend

For this week's Spotlight we're in one of the most beautiful regions of the Czech Republic, the Krkonose or Giant Mountains, straddling the Czech-Polish border, a hundred…

Former Communist Prime Minister walks free from a Prague court

This week saw the culmination of one of the Czech Republic's most closely observed court cases in recent years. One of Communist Czechoslovakia's most prominent political…

"Hitler's Fifth Column"

he Czech Prime Minister Milos Zeman recently stirred up a hornets' nest in neighbouring Germany and Austria when he said that Sudeten Germans - the German minority in…

33rd anniversary of the death of Jan Palach

Saturday was the 33rd anniversary of the tragic death of the twenty-year-old Prague student, Jan Palach. On the 19th January 1969, Jan Palach died in a Prague hospital…

Richard Falbr | Photo: Radio Prague International

Richard Falbr - trade union leader

Mies van der Rohe villa added to UNESCO World Heritage listopad

One of the most influential works of twentieth century architecture in Europe has been added to the UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites. Although it is beloved of…

News of Radio Prague

Irish Franciscans in Prague

When, at the end of the 16th century, the English Queen Elizabeth drove all members of the Franciscan religious order out of Ireland, little did she realize that she was…

The Czech government's media policy is criticized at a Prague international conference.

On Thursday Prague hosted an international conference on the relationship between the media and politicians, just as debate is raging over the Czech government's uneasy…