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From Manchester with love: Singer songwriter James Harries
In this edition of our Sunday Music Show we talk to singer songwriter James Harries. Hailing originally from Manchester, England, Harries has lived in the Czech Republic…
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My Prague Spring: an award-winning documentary about the aftermath of the Velvet Revolution
David Mrazek, is an award winning American writer and film producer. David, whose grandfather was a Czech American émigré, made an award winning documentary film in 1990…
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From Manchester with love: Singer songwriter James Harries
In this edition of our Sunday Music Show we talk to singer songwriter James Harries. Hailing originally from Manchester, England, Harries has lived in the Czech Republic…
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Freddy Ruppert: alternative electronic songwriter from Los Angeles based in Prague
Freddy Ruppert is an alternative electronic songwriter from Los Angeles living in Prague. At times, ambient, at times melodic and at times wildly inaccessible to the…
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First Czech Bible for two barrels of beer
To mark the four hundred year anniversary of the publishing of the Kralice bible, the first to be published in the Czech language; an exhibition documenting the creation…
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15th Designblok arrives at 1930s freight station
This week, Prague has been transformed into a hub for designers from the Czech Republic and further afield for the annual Designblok festival. Almost everything under the…
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Palermo - putting Prague on the alternative music map
In this week's Sunday Music Show we look at earlier tracks but also the latest album by electronic duo Palermo.
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Devětsil - Prague’s forgotten movement
Until the advent of the First World War, intellectuals and artists sitting in Prague’s smoky coffee houses would have talked in ‘isms’: modernism, cubism, futurism, and…
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Installation makes actors of passers-by at Prague’s New Stage
With barely a month to go until the New Stage theatre on Prague’s Národní třída turns 30, an art installation from Aleš Hvízdal, Marek Volf and Dominika Nettwallová has…
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Bridges over troubled water
Jostled between nation states and ideologies for the best part of two centuries, traces of an ever changing Czech identity crisis sit subtly in the foreground of the…