History
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Bystrice pod Hostynem
In today's Spotlight we visit the Moravian town of Bystrice pod Hostynem, close to the city of Zlin. Lying beneath the Hostyn Hill, which is a place of pilgrimage but also…
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The women of Charter 77
Thirty years ago this month a group of people decided to voice their opposition to the Communist regime of Czechoslovakia with a human rights manifesto known as Charter 77…
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"Prague time" abolished 95 years ago
The Czech Republic, like most EU countries, uses Central European Time. But few people know that until 1912, the Czech capital Prague had its own time zone. The so-called…
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"Hitler watercolor" goes up for auction on Czech website
Years before becoming one of the worst mass murderers of all time, Adolf Hitler struggled to make ends meet as an artist. Paradoxically, while the exact whereabouts of the…
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The strange tale of the Prague English Grammar School
Today the English College in Prague is one of several private secondary schools where pupils are taught in the English language. In this day and age, this is nothing…
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Merkur - a household name for more than eight decades
Many generations of Czech children have dreamt of finding this item underneath their Christmas tree. It was true for decades that when you said the word Merkur to a child…
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Wehrmacht soldiers to get dignified burial more than 60 years after the war
More than sixty years after the end of World War II it can still prove hard to bury hostilities - as well as the remains of soldiers who died in the carnage. In February…
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Jan Evangelista Purkyne - a groundbreaking scientist who played a major role in the Czech national…
The nineteenth-century Czech physician and natural scientist Jan Evangelista Purkyne is perhaps best known to people today for identifying the unique nature of individual…
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Zdenka Fantlova - Part 2
In last week's One on One, we heard the first part of an interview with Zdenka Fantlova in which she talked about her experiences in the Nazi concentration camps. In today…
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Masaryk murder mystery back in headlines as Russian journalist speaks out
The mysterious death of Czechoslovakia's post-war foreign minister Jan Masaryk is back in the headlines. That's thanks to controversial claims by a Russian journalist, who…
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The many faces of the Sudetenland
Usually in Czech Books we discuss poetry or prose, but for this week's programme we look at an intriguing book that fits neither category. Instead it is a collection of…
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Astronomer Tycho Brahe was born 460 years ago
Most of us have probably come across the astronomical terms nova and supernova - but did you know that the word "nova" was actually coined by an astronomer with a close…
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