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Czech PEN club marks 85 years of promoting freedom of speech
The Czech PEN club on Monday marked its 85th anniversary. Established in Prague just three years after the worldwide association of writers was founded in London in 1922…
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On-line project presents stories of people killed at communist Czechoslovakia’s borders
The Czech Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes has launched an on-line research project which will unearth more about the practices of the country’s communist…
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Mailbox
Today in Mailbox we disclose the identity of the mystery lady from our January quiz. Listeners quoted: Henrik Klemetz, Dileepa Ehelepola, Dimtry Mezin, S B Sharma, Hans…
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Potential key evidence in Demjanjuk trial uncovered
A Czech Radio reporter and colleague from the Los Angeles Times in a joint interview have helped uncover evidence which could prove crucial in the current trial of John…
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Native village of Jan Hus plans to build new visitor centre
The village of Husinec, in south Bohemia, wants to open a new centre commemorating its most famous son, the 15th century religious reformer Jan Hus. While the municipality…
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20 years ago officials disbanded notorious Communist-era StB secret police
Exactly 20 years have passed since officials in Czechoslovakia disbanded the notorious Communist-era secret police the StB. The order came on January 31, 1990 from then…
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“We were criminally naïve”: a former Czech PM looks back to the Velvet Revolution
Since the fall of communism, Petr Pithart has been a central Czech political figure. As one of the first people to sign the human rights manifesto, Charter 77, he spent…
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The National Theatre - the "golden chapel" of Czech culture
No visit to Prague is complete without paying homage to one of the most important buildings in the country in terms of history, symbolism and function: the National…
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StB lookout, once used to spy on US Embassy, to be opened to public
Later this year, ABL FM services, a company in charge of a number of Prague’s historic sites, will re-open the bell tower on St Nicholas’ Church, where 20 years ago the…
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Exhibition dedicated to assassins of Heydrich gets major facelift
The assassination in May 1942 of the Nazi governor of Bohemia and Moravia, Reinhard Heydrich, was one of the most dramatic events of World War II. The Czechoslovak…
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Georg Placzek – a critical link in the making of the atom bomb
To his many Nobel Prize-winning colleagues, Georg Placzek was a physicist of boundless importance. It was not because of a breakthrough discovery on his part, or because…
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Hammer and sickle to come down from Brno war monument
The city of Brno has made up its mind on a contentious issue: the hammer and sickle on a public monument to fallen Red Army soldiers from the Second World War is coming…
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