History
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Staff ruses helped preserve valuable footage during communism, says NFA head Bregant
Michal Bregant is the director of the National Film Archive, a state body that oversees over 150 million metres of film, tens of thousands of movie posters and other…
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The soundtrack to the Velvet Revolution
Today’s programme will be dedicated to the Velvet Revolution which brought down the communist regime in November 1989. The events of November and December 1989 had a very…
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New guidebook maps wartime Prague
For six years during the Second World War, Prague was the capital of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, established by the Nazis in parts of the former…
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Exhibitions harking back to the old days
Look at some of the small town exhibitions currently underway and you can’t miss the trend – they all show vintage objects very often made up of stuff people find in their…
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My Prague Spring: an award-winning documentary about the aftermath of the Velvet Revolution
David Mrazek, is an award winning American writer and film producer. David, whose grandfather was a Czech American émigré, made an award winning documentary film in 1990…
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The Meaning of Czech Independence Day
Welcome to our special extended programme marking the October 28th national holiday in the Czech Republic. Ninety-five years ago today, Czechoslovakia declared its…
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First Czech Bible for two barrels of beer
To mark the four hundred year anniversary of the publishing of the Kralice bible, the first to be published in the Czech language; an exhibition documenting the creation…
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“A Light Across the Sea”: a new film remembers a wartime bond between Czechs and an English…
When Czechoslovakia’s President-in-exile Edvard Beneš spoke in the English industrial city of Stoke-on-Trent on 6 September 1942, it was a turning point in the propaganda…
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US anti-Communist award sparks debate over Klaus’s pre-89 role
The recent presentation of a US award for opponents of Communism to Václav Klaus has sparked a war of words in the Czech Republic. Some believe the former prime minister…
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Devětsil - Prague’s forgotten movement
Until the advent of the First World War, intellectuals and artists sitting in Prague’s smoky coffee houses would have talked in ‘isms’: modernism, cubism, futurism, and…
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Mariusz Surosz: Czechs and Poles – “Nobody Knows Anything”
One of the curious things about Central Europe is how little people from the various countries of the region know about each other. A recent sociological study suggested…
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Historian Matěj Spurný: Munich Agreement fits Czech “victim narrative”
Monday marks the 75th anniversary of the Munich Agreement which granted Nazi Germany large parts of Czechoslovakia, inhabited mostly by ethnic Germans. A prelude to the…
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