Dita Asiedu

Up to 30,000 people in this country of ten million are believed to be addicted to hard drugs. Until recently, drop-in centres in the Czech Republic tested drug users for…

Forty-three year old Lech Sydor from eastern Moravia was promised a job as a masseur in a rehabilitation centre. When the centre's management found out that he was gay, it…

In Panorama today, we turn the hands of time back to the days of the mammoth hunters some 25,000 years ago. The country's biggest prehistoric burial grounds are found in…

In today's Spotlight we visit the Moravian town of Bystrice pod Hostynem, close to the city of Zlin. Lying beneath the Hostyn Hill, which is a place of pilgrimage but also…

Today's idiom comes from a song by the band Mňága &Žďorp and it's called "Je tma" - "It's Dark". The phrase we'll learn today is: "mít toho plné zuby" and the sentence you…

Like the rest of Central Europe, we're having an unusually warm winter here in the Czech Republic. Some towns and cities have even posted record temperatures often…

Thirty years ago this month a group of people decided to voice their opposition to the Communist regime of Czechoslovakia with a human rights manifesto known as Charter 77…

This time last year, a new smoking law went into effect banning smoking in public places such as cinemas, schools, and bus and tram stops. But is this enough to bring down…

Like the rest of Central Europe, we're having an unusually warm winter here in the Czech Republic. Some towns and cities have even posted record temperatures often…