David Vaughan

In the third part of our serial No Night So Dark we join Colin Wels as he pieces together his family's past.  We are taken to the village of Osek and to 1930s Prague.

No Night So Dark - series telling the remarkable story of the Wels family. Part 2.

In the first episode we met Martin Wels and his parents in Prague in 1939.  In Part 2 we are drawn still further into the past, as one family story uncovers another.

We explore a family’s search for its own past that was all but lost in the storm of 20th century history.  We map 150 years in the life of a remarkable Czech family. 

Here is a trailer to give you a flavour of our new series starting on Saturday 27 February that tells the story of five generations of a remarkable Czech Jewish family.

The row over the recent removal of a statue of the Soviet Marshall Ivan Konev in Prague reminded us that the legacy of the recent past remains highly sensitive. Add to…

In this programme, the last in the current series looking at Czech history through the archives, we get a flavour of the Cold War. The archives throw up some curious…

Czech interest in African American culture goes back to the 19th century. When Antonín Dvořák spent three years in the United States in the 1890s he explored African…

In this programme, the eighth in our series mapping this country’s history through the radio archives, we start with the dramatic events of the last days of the war in…

A few years ago I spent an unforgettable day with Jaroslav and Alžběta Hofrichter. It was 2013, Jaroslav was 93, Alžběta 91, and they were living in sheltered…