Mailbox
This week in Mailbox: New frequency schedule, 2010 QSL cards, the biggest opera hall in the Czech Republic, a listener’s comment concerning our monthly quizzes. Listeners quoted: Julius, Robina Aktar, Jayanta Chakrabarty.
If you listen to us on shortwave, please remember that as of today, a new broadcast schedule has come into effect. As usual, you can find the list of times and frequencies on our website www.radio.cz/en/static/about-radio-prague/frequencies-new or you can send in a request to [email protected] or Radio Prague, 12099 Prague. We will mail our current programme leaflet to you and will be looking forward to receiving your reception reports.
On a related subject, Julius from somewhere in cyberspace asks:
“I would like to know how many QSL cards there are in the present set featuring writers?”
In the 2010 series just as in the previous years there are eight cards and you can take a pretty detailed look at them on our website, at www.radio.cz/en/static/qsl/qsl-cards
On a different subject, Robina Aktar from Bangladesh would like to know:
“What is the name of your biggest opera hall?”
Some may be surprised that the largest opera hall in the Czech Republic is not Prague’s National Theatre with its 986 seats. Somewhat larger is Prague’s State Opera, built in 1888 as “Neues deutsches Theater” or New German Theatre, with a seating capacity of 1056 viewers. But the largest opera hall in the country is Janáčkovo divadlo or Janáček’s Theatre in the Czech Republic’s second city Brno. Built in 1965, it is now part of the Moravian National Theatre and seats 1383 spectators.
“I am in agreement with Colin Law's sentiment and would like to share my views with your other worldwide listeners. I think that taking part in Radio Prague's monthly quizzes has its own charm. We participate not with a prize in mind but for its sheer fun. We are of course overjoyed if we happen to be the lucky winner. Moreover, the more important aspect is that the competitions are a ‘learning process’. Each month a mystery Czech is picked out of the seemingly inexhaustible list of Czech luminaries. This way we are able to know more about a famous person with Czech origin who have excelled in a particular field – be it in the realm of literature, art, music, science, medicine, entertainment or sports where he/she has left an indelible footprint in the annals of human history.”
Thank you for sharing your view with us. Your opinions and comments on our programmes are always welcome at [email protected] or Radio Prague, 12099 Prague.
Those are also the addresses for your answers to this month’s competition question.
We are looking for the name of the physician and scholar of Slovak origin and Protestant faith who performed the first public autopsy in Prague in 1600. He was among the 27 Bohemian estates leaders executed on the Old Town Square in 1621.
Your answers have four more days to reach us. In next week’s edition of Mailbox, we will disclose the identity of the mystery man and announce the name of the lucky winner who will receive a small prize from Radio Prague. Thanks for tuning in today and until next week, happy listening.
