David Vaughan

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…

Welcome again to Czech Books. Now every little boy feels a frisson of excitement as he watches a train thundering past or disappearing into a tunnel, but by the time we…

Hana Andronikova is one of the best known younger Czech writers and has won considerable acclaim for her epic novel with the poetic title, "The Sound of the Sundial". It…

In 1967 the young Scottish music student, Alistair Beattie, won a British Council scholarship to spend two years studying at the Academy of Musical Arts in Prague. It…

Once again a very warm welcome to Czech Books. Now if somebody asks you about Romany or "Gypsy" culture in Central Europe you'll most probably think first and foremost of…

Karel Malina is one of the Czech Republic's most famous sports reporters, with a career spanning over fifty years. His name is associated with almost all the great Czech…

This week hundreds of Czech émigrés from all corners of the globe have gathered in Prague for the "Week of Czechs Abroad". They will be discussing everything from the role…

Sixty-five years ago, at the beginning of October 1938, the Nazis marched into the Czech border regions, known as the Sudetenland. With the Munich Agreement at the end of…

Welcome to Czech books and today we're going to be meeting Hana Andronikova, a young Czech writer whose name has recently been buzzing around Czech literary circles. Two…