History
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The Virgin and Child in the battle against Hitler
Last week I promised some recordings from Radio Prague in the early 1990s, but I hope you’ll forgive me for taking a break in our chronological journey through the…
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Leoš Janáček, the composer for a new republic
The first two names always given at the top of the pantheon of Czech classical music are Antonín Dvořák and Bedřich Smetana; the third is invariably Leoš Janáček. Probably…
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September 30 marks 20th anniversary of dramatic announcement that East German refugees in Prague…
Two decades ago the attention of the world’s media was on the West German Embassy in a normally quiet corner of Prague, where thousands of East Germans were living in a…
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Preacher Petr Wagner on Saint Wenceslas, Czech atheism, and spreading his beliefs through punk
Petr Wagner is the front man of Czech Christian punk group Goro, a presenter on Český rozhlas station Radio Wave, and a Hussite preacher based in Čerčany, near Prague…
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Radio Prague goes back on air
For a few weeks just after the fall of communism, Radio Prague went silent. Its days as a tool in the Cold War were over. After huge staff cuts, and with the old communist…
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Should the famous baroque plague column be returned to Prague’s Old Town Square?
Prague’s Old Town Square may be famous for its grandeur and architectural beauty, but it is, in fact, a shadow of its former self. A great chunk of the Old Town Hall…
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George Bush Senior tolls a bell for Czechoslovakia
On November 17 1990, the first anniversary of the beginning of the Velvet Revolution, George Bush Sr. became the first American president to visit Czechoslovakia in the…
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Guests at the Castle: Frank Zappa and the Pope
During Václav Havel’s first year as Czechoslovak president, Prague Castle saw a string of visitors from around the world. And they did not just include heads of state and…
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Czechs saved by Nicholas Winton remember their journey 70 years on
The usual station announcements boom out of the loudspeakers at London’s Liverpool Street Station on Friday but, if you listen hard enough, you can hear some of the tens…
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Mailbox
Today in Mailbox we find out the name of the Bohemian-born glass cutter as well as the names of the four lucky winners who will receive Radio Prague goodies for their…
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Winton Train arrives in London for emotional reunion after 70 years
Around 20 of the 669 mostly Jewish children saved from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia by Nicholas Winton recreated their 1939 journey by steam train across Europe this week…
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Dramatic events of 1989 captured in new photography exhibition
The Year 1989 through the Eyes of Photographers is the title of a new exhibition that has just got underway at Prague’s Old Town Hall. It brings together around 300…
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