David Vaughan

Children are back in school after the summer break, and for most of them the holidays are but a distant dream. One group of Roma children, however, will remember this…

The young Czech photographer David Sifra recently spent six months in Afghanistan and came back with a heart-rending collection of photographs that capture some of the…

A conference has just ended in Prague that proves that not all historians are detached from reality in their ivory towers. Several hundred historians from over 20…

George Eliot - the pseudonym of the great 19th English century novelist, Marian Evans - is best known for her novels of rural England, so you may be wondering why I…

Over the last decade Prague's Centre for Contemporary Arts (www.fcca.cz) has played an important role on the city's cultural scene, especially in encouraging young Czech…

Dana Recmanova lives in Prague, where she organises international artists' exchanges. But Dana originally comes from one of the Czech Republic's more unusual cities…

For this week's Witness we return again to the events of August 1968. As Soviet troops crushed the Prague Spring on the 21st August, the entire Czechoslovak leadership was…

In the last programme I spoke to Bernie Higgins, one of Czech Books' regular presenters about her favourite Czech writing. Today it's the turn of another regular presenter…

Milan Kazda is a documentary film-maker. In August 1968, when Soviet tanks rolled into Czechoslovakia, he was chief producer at a regional film studio in his home town of…

On Friday night our much-loved colleague from Radio Prague, Olga Szantova, died at the age of 71: the end of a long battle with cancer and a life that was quite…