David Vaughan

On Sunday the sad news reached the Czech Republic that the poet, novelist, translator and diplomat, Viktor Fischl, had died in Jerusalem at the age of 94. He was one of…

This week the Czech translation of one of the most fascinating and widely discussed books on the history of Central Europe to be published in recent years went onto the…

Could one of the biggest foreign investments in the Czech Republic since the fall of communism be under threat? Plans by the South Korean car manufacturing giant Hyundai…

In this edition of Encore we look at a new and fascinating CD of yodeling songs from Silesia, we hear a new release of Martinu concertos recorded back in the 1970s, and we…

The Second World War tore communities and whole nations apart. In the Czech Republic centuries of Jewish history were reduced to a few shattered fragments. Nearly 80,000…

This week Czech Books comes from the main exhibition ground in Prague, where the Bookworld - or Svet knihy - festival has been taking place. It was founded in 1997 by…

The appeal "Volame vsechny Cechy" - calling all Czechs - is probably the best known recording in Czech Radio's archive. A radio announcer calls on Czechs to rise up…

Thirty-one years ago last weekend, in the small Czech town of Dvur Kralove, a whole herd of giraffes was shot. Nobody was ever told why. This sounds like the opening of a…