History
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Sir Nicholas Winton, saviour of 669 Czechoslovak children, honoured in Prague
Sir Nicholas Winton, the British man whose foresight and determination helped save 669 mostly Jewish Czechoslovak children from the Holocaust, paid a visit to Prague this…
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Arnost Lustig: Love in the proximity of death
Czech Books comes today from the Cafe Union in Prague's Nusle district, where I'm joined by one of the Czech Republic's most honoured and widely read novelists. Arnost…
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'Extinct churches - living music': exhibition brings to life Prague'sreligious past
Prague is full of old and beautiful churches, often crouching between hubbubs of modern social activity. Many regularly play host to concerts, maintaining through music a…
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The curious incident of the giraffes in the night
Throughout the Middle Ages, the Czech town of Dvur Kralove occupied an important and prestigious position. The town formed part of the Czech queen's dowry, as its name…
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How Czech intelligence abducted Czech and Slovak émigrés in the first years of the Cold War
Much has been written about crimes committed against Czechs and Slovaks by Czechoslovakia's Communist regime, which held power in the country for forty-one years. But…
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The royal town of Pisek
A well-known 19th century student song sings about Putimska brana - one of the three historic gates in the town walls around Pisek. Only a remnant of the gate is preserved…
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Nicholas Kirke - the British entrepreneur who came to Prague in search of his father and founded a…
Our guest for One on One this week is Nicholas Kirke, a British-born property developer who has been operating in the Czech Republic since the early 1990s and whose La…
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Sir Nicholas Winton and the human cost of "peace for our time".
It was 69 years ago this week, just after midnight on the night from 29th to 30th September 1938, that the British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, his French…
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The Mystery of the Puzzle Box: the life and work of Jaroslav Foglar
Jaroslav Foglar's children's stories of adventure and mystery are beloved to at least three generations of Czechs. Banned under communism, his fiction nevertheless found…
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Will Tizard - Variety's man in Prague
Our guest for One on One this week is Will Tizard an American journalist who has been based in Prague since 1994. Besides writing regularly for the Czech Republic's…
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Mailbox
This week in Mailbox: music on Radio Prague, our SoundCzech series, stamps featuring Czech WWII heroes, staff photos on Radio Prague's website. Listeners quoted…
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The wondrous Codex Gigas - aka. the Devil's Bible - goes on display in Prague
Exhibitions like this one are once in a lifetime: the loan of a famous Bohemian tome officially known as the Codex Gigas (but also as the Devil's Bible) to Prague…
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