Nature
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A very special Christmas gift: a primeval forest certificate
With Christmas just around the corner, people are taking the shops by storm looking for just the right gift to please someone. Billions of crowns are being spent on…
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Prague's Christmas tree begins its journey to the capital
Christmas is drawing close - and in this most Christmasy of countries - one of the first signs of the oncoming season is always the annual ritual of preparing the…
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Mailbox
This week in Mailbox: messages to Radio Prague; a swallow from the Czech Republic spotted in Africa; the poem "May" by Karel Hynek Macha. Listeners quoted: Helen Brock, UK…
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A hare-raising lesson
Hello and welcome to a fresh Czech language lesson, explaining Czech idioms featuring wild animals. Now, can you guess which animal this is?
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The Bohemian Paradise
Today we travel to eastern Bohemia where I visited one of the country's regions that's true to its name - Cesky Raj, which translates as Bohemian Paradise. It's an area…
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A Black Triangle gradually turns green
North Bohemia was once the member of a most unlucky club. Together with neighboring areas of Germany and Poland, the region was considered part of the "Black Triangle," so…
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Magazine
He's no diplomat but he has survived nine foreign ministers: meet the Czech Foreign Ministry's 50 year old mascot Pepik. Corruption is a serious problem, but it's giving…
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Gorilla's sex remains mystery
Is it a boy or a girl? - this question was raised by the Czech tabloid press this week. No, we're not talking about a human child but a baby gorilla that was born almost a…
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Lubomir Peske - tracking the curious lives of black storks
In today's One on One Jan's guest is ornithologist Lubomir Peske, who has been involved at every stage of the Odyssey projects - a series of tracking expeditions supported…
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Czech Republic getting greener as forest area increases by thousands of hectares every year
The Czech national anthem describes the Czech Republic as paradise on earth, boasting waters murmuring through its meadows and forests rustling over rocky hills. Well, it…
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Hunters' hare-brained scheme under fire from environmental lobby
One of the less publicised effects of last summer's devastating floods was a sharp fall in the country's hare population. Thousands of hares - as well as rabbits - fled…
