David Vaughan

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…

Jana Gonda was a teenager at the time of the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968. Like tens of thousands of Czechs she emigrated with her parents in the months that…

As the war in Iraq continues, there are growing concerns over the humanitarian consequences. Public opinion about the war remains deeply divided here in the Czech Republic…

Avin Taha is a confident, poised and articulate young graduate from the Masaryk University in the Czech second city of Brno, where she studied sociology and journalism…

As war rages in Iraq, it may come as a surprise that the Czech Republic itself has its own Iraqi community. This dates back to the days of communism, when many students…

A few hours after US and British missiles started falling on Iraq, senior Czech ministers and the prime minister met to discuss the latest dramatic developments. After…

The European Convention - the body set up to discuss the future of the European Union - has just celebrated its first birthday. The Convention was given the challenging…

Last week we had a couple of days of glorious sunny spring weather, and that's the inspiration for the following memory. Pavla Jonssonova teaches Czech literature at…

It's just days before Vaclav Klaus is inaugurated as the country's 10th president, and a question many people are asking is - will the former Civic Democrat leader soften…