David Vaughan

This week visitors to Prague's Svanda Theatre are being treated to a feast of Balkan music, with the launch of a new CD by the band Gothart. It's a sound associated more…

This month is the 14th anniversary of the dramatic events that in a matter of days brought down Czechoslovakia's communist regime. We remember the period as a bloodless or…

This week visitors to Prague's Svanda Theatre are being treated to a feast of Balkan music, with the launch of a new CD by the band Gothart. In the northern climes of the…

On Monday Roman Catholics from all over the Czech Republic gathered at the Old Town Square in Prague. They were campaigning for a 17th century column topped by a statue of…

In the Czech countryside there is a tradition that each family slaughters a pig once or twice a year, and lives on the meat for much of the time in between. Although they…

This week we're going to be looking at a very special area of Czech writing, children's literature. I'm delighted to have with me in the studio Monika Voskova, who is a…

Prague's Jewish Museum recently released a CD that is nothing short of miraculous. At the height of the Nazi occupation of Prague during the Second World War, the Czech…

An extraordinary book about the Holocaust has just been published in Prague. It's the story of a suitcase - a suitcase that belonged to a young Czech Jewish girl called…

If you listened to Czech Books on Sunday, you'll know that the popular young Czech writer Jaroslav Rudis is something an eccentric - with an inexhaustible passion for…

In the world press the plight of independent journalists in Belarus has been largely ignored in recent years, but on Friday the former Czech president Vaclav Havel offered…