Pavla Horáková

In Mailbox this week: Problems with reading Czech characters in ABC of Czech, Radio Prague's reporting on tax freedom day, the answer to the June competition question…

Hello and welcome to the ABC of Czech. Last week we looked at some vocabulary to do with beer, the most typical Czech beverage, and today we'll look at beer in Czech…

Last week, the Czech Academy of Sciences awarded outstanding young researchers with the Wichterle Prize, named after Czech chemist Otto Wichterle, the inventor of the…

"Property is the issue of our generation," a friend of mine said the other day as we were discussing tiles and door fittings. And it suddenly dawned on me how right he was…

Welcome to a very special edition of Mailbox. It is special because today we will announce the winner of the 2005 Radio Prague listeners' competition. This year the…

Hello and welcome to the ABC of Czech where this season we look at Czech vocabulary related to food and drink. Today we are going to talk about the most typical Czech…

Shortly after its launch on Tuesday evening, the world's first solar-sail-powered spacecraft, Cosmos 1, fell silent. But its command stations around the world, including…

The acrimonious collapse of European Union budget talks in Brussels on Friday night is being variously interpreted as a disaster and an opportunity for the union. It…