David Vaughan

Welcome to Encore, our monthly look at the world of Czech classical music. Today we're going to be departing from the security of Dvorak or Smetana, and delving into the…

It's exactly fifteen years since one of the events that accelerated the fall of communism in Czechoslovakia. January 1989 was the 20th anniversary of the death of Jan…

Czech dog-handlers were among the first foreign rescue workers to arrive in the Iranian city of Bam after last month's devastating earthquake. They remained for only three…

2004 is a year of Czech musical jubilees. It's a hundred years since the death of the greatest of all Czech composers, Antonin Dvorak, a hundred-and-fifty years since the…

In the following programme we're going to be hearing some of the best from our weekly series "Witness" from 2003. As regular listeners will know, "Witness" is a programme…

As Prague develops into one Central Europe's main commercial capitals, there are literally hundreds of new building sites in the city, to feed a seemingly unlimited demand…

Welcome to Radio Prague's Christmas Eve special, with a feast of Czech Christmas music. We'll be hearing some traditional Czech carols and meeting some of the people…

Many Radio Prague listeners will be familiar with the story of Sir Nicholas Winton, the British man in Prague who managed to save 669 Jewish children at the beginning of…

When Josephine Baker died in Paris in 1975, over twenty thousand people lined the city streets to watch her funeral procession. She is remembered as one of the great…

Marketa Richterova is a young actress living in Prague. In communist days her family had huge problems with the regime. Her parents were dissidents and the family was…