Ian Willoughby

Opera singer Adam Plachetka has teamed up with jazz and swing specialist Ondřej Havelka and his band Melody Makers on a new CD of interwar classics.

In his book To Ukraine With Love Benjamin Tallis identifies a "neo-idealist" approach to foreign affairs seen in, among others, Czech Foreign Minister Jan Lipavský.

The narcotic fentanyl has had a devastating impact in the US, contributing to record overdose numbers. Should the authorities be worried about a similar crisis in Czechia?

The northern town of Žatec and surrounding hop-growing landscape have just been granted UNESCO World Heritage status. But what makes its Saaz hops so special?

Meet some young people from mainly Eastern European states who are currently in Czechia under a Foreign Ministry scheme to establish ties with high-flyers in the region.

Yvonne Přenosilová, a popular 1960s Czechoslovak singing star who later became a radio presenter, sadly passed away last week.

The government has earmarked major investment for Terezín, site of the Czech lands’ biggest WWII Jewish ghetto, and Josefov, another 18th century garrison town.

Veteran DJ Jana Kománková discusses her new book about the Prague alternative station Radio 1, including its pirate beginnings as Radio Stalin and anarchic early years.

Prague’s Radio 1 was the first non-state station in Czechoslovakia after the fall of communism. Decades later, the story of the station is the subject of a new book.

Karolína Muchová has reached the semi-finals of tennis’s US Open for the first time in her career. The Czech will now face US rising star Coco Gauff in New York.