David Vaughan

The Czech Republic's foremost expert on Romany culture and language, Milena Hubschmannova has died at the age of 72. She was involved in a car crash in South Africa in…

In today's Czech Books we meet a writer who is a master of the short story. Andrej Gina, who won the Open Society Institute's Roma Literary Award in 2003, lives in the…

Jeremy Rifkin is an American economist, philosopher, university professor and writer. He has written numerous books on the impact of scientific and technological changes…

With the southern Gulf Coast states of the US still reeling from the devastation caused by hurricane Katrina and the subsequent floods, the Czech Republic has offered to…

In this edition of Encore we find out what led the little known 17th century Moravian composer Gottfried Finger to leave London in disgust; we look at a recording of…

Few fields can have gone through such radical changes over the 16 years since the fall of communism as publishing. In her research, the academic, sociologist, cultural…

The Disman Ensemble is a great Czech cultural institution. Founded by the teacher and broadcaster Miloslav Disman in 1935, it is celebrating its 70th birthday this year…