David Vaughan

Hello and welcome to another edition of Encore, our monthly programme devoted to classical music. Now, it's not by chance that I started the programme with an extract of…

Welcome to a special programme to mark the 58th anniversary of the end of the Second World War, a national holiday in the Czech Republic. The anniversary has a special…

Kamil Kotab is a Prague banker in his mid thirties. But he does not spend all his time behind a desk. Kamil has a strong sense of adventure, and ever since the Czech…

Welcome to "Czech Books", our new fortnightly series devoted to Czech writing and writers. In a series of interviews over the next few weeks the writer and musician Pavla…

Mark Wiedorn is an American photographer, who has lived in Prague for the last three years. He has taken a particular interest in the lives of the Czech Republic's Romany…

Ahmed Mohamud came to the Czech Republic from Somalia ten years ago as a refugee from the country's civil war. At first he was on his own but later he was joined by his…

One of the losers in the US-led war against Iraq is without doubt the United Nations, after its failure to push for a diplomatic solution. As the war draws to a close, the…

Petra Prochazkova is the most celebrated Czech war reporter. She has won numerous awards for her coverage of the wars in the former Yugoslavia and Afghanistan, but above…

All this week the western Czech town of Plzen has been hosting an orgy of Czech film. The Finale Plzen film festival is devoted almost entirely to domestic production …

Being a musician on tour abroad can be a lonely, anonymous experience, but there can also be pleasant surprises. For the last 18 years Miroslav Wanek has been one of the…