Skip to main content

CS
DE
EN
ES
FR
РУ
УК

Prague Talk

A regular interview series hosted by Ian Willoughby

Every year Radio Prague International’s Ian Willoughby conducts dozens of interviews with fascinating people either from Czechia or with a connection to the country.

With Prague Talk you get all of those interviews as a regularly updated podcast, delivered as a download to your device or available via streaming services.

latest

Prague Talk
08/29/2022

Prague Talk - EP61: Helen Epstein

Helen Epstein on her father Kurt Epstein, a Jewish Czechoslovak athlete who insisted on taking part in the 1936 "Nazi Olympics" and is the subject of a new exhibition.
share
- Facebook
- Twitter
08/24/2022

Prague Talk - EP60: Marie Heřmanová

Digital anthropologist Marie Heřmanová discusses Czech politics and social media, how much we should share on the internet and many other aspects of our online lives today.
share
- Facebook
- Twitter
08/02/2022

Prague Talk - EP59: Libuše Jarcovjáková

Photographer Libuše Jarcovjáková documented her own turbulent life, and minorities such as homosexuals and Romanies, in the final decades of communism in Czechoslovakia.
share
- Facebook
- Twitter
07/11/2022

EP58: Igor Lukeš

The leaders of the newly established Czechoslovakia should have done far more to ensure its stability. So says historian Professor Igor Lukeš, in an interview that also…
share
- Facebook
- Twitter
06/06/2022

EP57: Martin Klíma

Martin Klíma was a prime mover behind the November 1989 student gathering that sparked the Velvet Revolution. He has since found enormous success with role-playing games…
share
- Facebook
- Twitter
05/17/2022

EP56: Dana Huňátová

When Dana Huňátová joined Czechoslovakia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs in late 1989 she literally came across a red telephone to Moscow. As head of office of new minister…
share
- Facebook
- Twitter
04/25/2022

EP55: František Vrábel

František Vrábel is an expert on Russia’s infiltration of Czech society via sophisticated online disinformation. He discusses efforts to combat Kremlin propaganda, says…
share
- Facebook
- Twitter
03/09/2022

EP54: Michael Romancov

Has Putin dangerously lost touch with reality? And how are things most likely to play out now, following the launch of his brutal war against Ukraine? Leading Czech expert…
share
- Facebook
- Twitter
03/07/2022

EP53: Roman Máca

Roman Máca has recently been monitoring a rise in activity among pro-Russian voices on the Czech internet, linked to Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. The security expert…
share
- Facebook
- Twitter
03/01/2022

EP52: Julie Sedivy

Linguist Julie Sedivy’s family left Czechoslovakia when she was two and when they settled in Canada she gradually lost most of her Czech. In her book Memory Speaks…
share
- Facebook
- Twitter

Pages

this programme was brought to you by

Ian Willoughby