Dominik Jůn

It’s 9am on Sunday morning in late October and I’m in Studio Alta – a kind of artistic studio space – in Prague’s Holešovice district. I’m visiting an “Open Breakfast” or…

In this special programme on Czech Independence Day I am joined by noted historian Jan Rychlík, and we will also be hearing from Jan Hartl of the STEM polling agency. We…

The Czech Forest – or Český Les – is a thick band of pine forests traversing the entire south-western side of the Czech Republic. Unlike the tourist draws of the Krkonoše…

Hello and welcome to a special programme marking Czech Statehood day, which is also the feast day of St. Wenceslas. I am joined for a look at the life of St. Wenceslas –…

Prague Castle is to beef up security following last Saturday’s incident in which activists, posing as chimneysweepers, managed to breach security and hung a pair of red…

A new exhibition entitled a Brave New World – deliberately evoking the title of Aldous Huxley’s famous dystopian novel – has just opened in Prague’s DOX Centre for…

A decision by Germany on Sunday to reintroduce border controls with Austria in the wake of a seemingly endless flow of refugees, mainly comping from Syria, has led to a…

České Velenice is one of those places that you look at on a map and wonder how such an oddity can even exist. A small town, tucked away in a south-eastern corner of…

In this week's Business News: Unipetrol announces its largest ever investment project; Czech firms say they could put 5,000 migrants to work; inflation growth slows…

Politicians from across the Czech political spectrum have reaffirmed their opposition to a revised plan unveiled by European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker in…