Jan Velinger

Topics discussed: Czech schools, Czech nuclear programme, Radio Prague history, bombing of Prague during World War II, Czech economic situation, Czechs and eating out…

On a busy street corner on Na Porici Street in Prague, where cars drive by and trams roll along, stands an imposing time-worn building, its façade blackened by the years…

Earlier in the week we reported on the trial of the radical socialist David Pecha just underway in the Czech Republic. The 24-year-old editor - charged with propagating…

An unprecedented trial has just begun here in the Czech Republic, with the young editor of a far-left magazine in the dock. Having called for socialist revolution in the…

Who wouldn't jump at the chance to translate the adventures of Harry Potter? In Czech the distinction of translating the world-famous series is jointly held by two…

Last week the Czech Republic's intelligence service BIS released a new report warning that the Russian mafia was still alive and well in the Czech Republic. According to…

This week's topics: Appeal on Putin to pardon Czech prisoner. Internet for Schools project. Fischer Air gets contract with Allianz. Listeners quoted: Gina Gordon, Bridget…

A nation-wide civil servants' strike - including tax-revenue officers and other state employees - especially teachers - has become an almost one-hundred percent certainty…

All kinds of different stories make the headlines today: Pravo shows an uncompromising Kofi Annan, the U.N. Secretary General, responding strongly to Tuesday apparent…