David Vaughan

35 years ago just before midnight on 20th August 1968 Soviet tanks rolled into Czechoslovakia, bringing the brief reforms of the Prague Spring to an abrupt and violent end…

Two Jehovah's Witnesses have been granted compensation worth several hundred Euros for appalling hardship they faced in Czechoslovakia's Stalinist prisons in the…

Hello and welcome to another Encore. Libor Pesek is one of the best known Czech conductors. A few weeks ago he celebrated his seventieth birthday - although, with his…

Hello and a very warm welcome to another edition of Czech Books. Over the last weeks you'll have got used in this programme to hearing the voice of Bernie Higgins. Today…

In this week's One on One, David Vaughan speaks to Martina Radova, a Czech woman who fled Communist Czechoslovakia in 1949 to start a new life abroad. After saying goodbye…

Libor Pesek is one of the best-known and most respected Czech conductors, famous in the English-speaking world for the ten successful years he spent in Britain as chief…

In 1949, just after the communists came to power in Czechoslovakia, Oldrich Cerny went into exile. His family's problems had begun during the Nazi occupation, as his…

No other European politician can rival the German Social Democrat Gunther Verheugen in the huge role he has played in steering the countries of Central Europe towards the…

The last few days have seen two developments that could have a huge bearing on the Czech Republic's future. Firstly Czechs voted in a referendum ten days ago in favour of…

Education is the theme of a major conference being held in the Czech capital this weekend. The Prague Forum on Education Management and Funding will be attended by experts…