Jan Velinger

It has been thirty-five years since Soviet troops began entering Czechoslovakia late on August 20th and early August 21st in a carefully orchestrated invasion designed to…

It seems that once or twice a year a lottery jackpot so high comes along that it sways the country completely with jackpot fever, and now is such a time once again in the…

It's amazing how a single animal can rivet the public's attention as we all saw last weekend with the christening of a small seal named Abeba at the Prague Zoo. This…

In the middle of the city, in Prague's Jama Street there is one bar you can visit if you're in the mood for something a little unusual, that is, for climbing up the walls…

The oldest Czech soldier to fight in World War I, Alois Vocasek, died at the age of 107 on Saturday, the last survivor of the battle of Zborov in Ukraine. He was one of…

One year after Prague was shaken by disastrous floods one man is back and his picture is featured on almost all the front covers this day: Sean Connery - returning for the…

In this week's edition of One on One Jan Velinger's guest is Jana Semeradova - the young, dynamic, and elegant director of a small Czech media agency that publishes one of…

The Pope praying for rain, a Greenpeace protest at a Czech chemical factory, and Czech soldiers on guard against angry mobs in Iraq - all feature prominently on today's…

Topic's this week: Cooking programmes. Castles and Chateaux. Salaries. Rent. Foreigners in football clubs, listener looking for free Czech lessons in the UK. Listeners…