David Vaughan

Welcome again to the rich world of Czech writing with Czech Books. Iva Pekarkova is a writer who loves adventure. Regular listeners to Czech Books will know that she's…

Pavel Klimes lives in the village of Pec pod Snezkou in the Krkonose Mountains of North Bohemia. He runs a museum and information centre for the thousands of people who…

Next year the Czech Republic will be hosting the ice hockey world championships, and I hardly need remind you that ice hockey is a national institution here. The moment…

Today we look at a book that wasn't written by a Czech. The author is the Canadian journalist Karen Levine, but the story she tells has its roots firmly in the Czech…

Lubomir Doruzka is a living legend of Czech jazz. He has been involved in music since the Second World War, when, as a teenager, he worked on an illegal jazz magazine…

There aren't many people who can claim to have known six United States Presidents. Eliska Haskova-Coolidge is one of them. She spent no less than eighteen years working in…

Iva Pekarkova is one of the best known younger Czech novelists. You might have heard of her novel that appeared in English as "Gimme the Money", inspired by her…

After her 1998 solo concert in New York's Weill Recital Hall, the New York Times' critic described the young Czech harpist Katerina Englichova's playing as "feisty", with…

Eliska Haskova-Coolidge has had an impressive career. During nearly two decades working in the White House, she came to know no less than five American presidents. But for…

Welcome again to the world of Czech writing, with Czech books. Prague is a city of legend - its origins are steeped in mediaeval mythology - and even the river Vltava is…