History
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Daniela Hammer-Tugendhat: our Villa was stolen and now has to be returned
The Villa Tugendhat, a functionalist family home designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, is the Czech Republic's only 20th century UNESCO site. The city of Brno is…
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Head of Czech branch of Interpol revealed as former StB agent
The head of the Czech branch of Interpol has been revealed to be a former StB secret police agent. The interior minister has confirmed that Pavol Mihal used a false name…
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Mailbox
Today in Mailbox we reveal the name of the mystery person from our January competition and announce the names of the four lucky winners. Listeners quoted: K. Thiagarajan…
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Karel Capek's The White Plague still relevant 70 years after first production
When Karel Capek's play Bila Nemoc or The White Plague first came out in 1937, it was seen as a warning against the dangers of fascism, which was sweeping through Europe…
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Catholic Church to screen priests for collaboration with StB
Thousands of public officials have had their pasts scrutinised under a lustration or screening law adopted two years after the fall of communism. It aims to stop former…
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Brno capitulates in dispute over Villa Tugendhat
The city of Brno has relented. Brno's city council yesterday approved a plan to return the Villa Tugendhat, a UNESCO landmark, to the children of the original owners. The…
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Ferdinand Peroutka - the father of Czech journalism
The inter-war years are generally seen as a golden age by many Czechs. The first Czechoslovak Republic, which was established in 1918, was one of the world's most…
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Ferdinand Peroutka - the father of Czech journalism
The inter-war years are generally seen as a golden age by many Czechs. The first Czechoslovak Republic, which was established in 1918, was one of the world's most…
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Jan Palach's suicide remembered 38 years on
Tuesday marks the 38th anniversary of the self-immolation of Jan Palach, the young student whose suicide transformed him into a symbol of Czechoslovak resistance following…
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Dora Slaba - fifteen years at Radio Prague ended by events of 1968
Born in the Sudetenland, Dora Slaba spent World War II in England, returning with far better English than her Czech school teachers. She later put her language skills to…
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Preserving prehistoric times in a little school museum
In Panorama today, we turn the hands of time back to the days of the mammoth hunters some 25,000 years ago. The country's biggest prehistoric burial grounds are found in…
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Musician Michal Prokop still ashamed of signature on 1977"anti-Charter"
January marks two important anniversaries. It's 30 years since the release of the Charter 77 human rights declaration, and also the 30th anniversary of the so-called "anti…
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