History
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Lendl and Navrátilová: home and away
The year is 1984, and Ivan Lendl plays the winning point against John McEnroe in the final of the French Open in Paris, one of eight Grand Slam singles titles in his…
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New exhibition at Prague’s Jewish Museum offers chance to revive the Golem
An interactive exhibition which is to open at the Jewish Museum in Prague on Thursday promises visitors a chance to revive a centuries’ old legend. A sculpture by the…
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Communists cry foul at Czech TV documentary on Horáková show trial
The Communist Party has written to complain at a documentary on Czech Television about the show-trial of Milada Horáková – being shown in the run-up to the European…
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Czech police investigation names two responsible for June 1945 murder of Sudeten Germans
One of the darkest chapters in modern Czech history has just been reopened, with the news that police in north Bohemia have named two men responsible for the killing of…
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End of an era as RFE formally hands over keys to National Museum
A small piece of history was made on Monday morning as the U.S. broadcaster Radio Free Europe formally handed over the keys to their former headquarters to a new tenant…
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Coffee-table book with a difference collects photographs taken surreptitiously by communist-era…
At Prague’s Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes, Vladimír Bosák went through thousands of photographic negatives from the files of the StB, Czechoslovakia’s…
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Calisthenics, communist style
Last year in this programme I played some archive recordings from the pre-war gatherings of the “Sokol” movement, which brought together tens of thousands of people in…
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Assassins of leading Nazi Heydrich finally honoured with Prague statue
It’s 67 years today since one of the most audacious acts of resistance against the Nazi occupiers – the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, acting Reichsprotektor of…
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Politics and the Golden Foot at the 1980 Olympics
Part of the American response to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979 was a threat to boycott the 1980 Moscow Summer Olympics. The Soviet troops stayed put and the…
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Man who saved hundreds of children from Nazis celebrates 100th birthday
Sir Nicholas Winton – the British man who helped save 669 Czechoslovak Jewish children from the Nazis in 1939 – will receive a telegram from the Queen on Tuesday to mark…
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Radio Prague and the Cold War in Africa
In the last years of the Cold War, Radio Prague’s English department was many times bigger than it is today and divided into several sections, devoted to different parts…
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Bedřich Hrozný – Re-Discoverer of the Hittite Language
The Hittites Empire dominated a swath of the Near East for some 600 years in ancient times. It was a vastly precocious civilisation with better tools, more modern methods…
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