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The Czech Republic is currently experiencing a heat wave. Whilst just a few days ago temperatures reached a maximum of only 23 degrees Celsius, this week has seen them…

Today's Mailbox includes Topics: Parliamentary elections Bohuslav Balbin - 17th Century patriot. Kmoch brass band festival in Kolin. Listeners mentioned and quoted: David…

Is the Czech Republic running out of small change? Here's a quick maths lesson: one Czech crown is worth around 3 US cents. Each crown is divided into 100 hellers, and the…

You'd have to be living on the moon not to know that the whole world has gone football crazy over the World Cup, which is currently taking place in Japan and South Korea…

The foiling of a terrorist plot to attack the United States with a so-called 'dirty bomb' makes the headlines in almost all of the main papers today. On the home front…

Today's Mailbox includes Topics: What happens to stamps on listeners' letters? Listening conditions in South Asia. World soccer championship. Over-charging by Prague taxi…

The war of words between Czech and German politicians over the post-war expulsion of Czechoslovakia's large German minority - known as the Sudeten Germans - has not…

In modern European history, Samizdat - the writing, printing and distribution of literature that was suppressed and banned by the censors during Communism - represented a…