Pavla Horáková

The Czech Academy of Sciences has a new president. After Professor Helena Illnerova's four-year term expired, Professor Vaclav Paces, the former head of the Institute of…

There are few Czech politicians who have left such a mark on Czech society as President Vaclav Klaus. He has been in high politics for more than 15 years non-stop and…

In today's programme: reactions to the death of Pope John Paul II and Radio Prague's Letter from Prague programme; Radio Prague's listeners' competitions. Listeners quoted…

Welcome to the ABC of Czech, Radio Prague special Czech language programme, this season dedicated to Czech food and cuisine. Having explained some of the vocabulary…

This week the South Bohemian town of Cesky Krumlov is hosting an annual meeting of an interesting international organisation. It is called Women in Nuclear and is a…

Church bells tolled across the Czech Republic on Sunday to commemorate the passing of the first Slav in history to lead the Roman Catholic Church. Thousands of worshippers…

In this week's programme we have reactions to "Czechs in Toronto" series, we talk about Czech composer Julius Fucik and announce the winner of our March competition. We…

Welcome to the ABC of Czech, Radio Prague's Czech language course which this season looks at Czech food and cuisine. In today's lesson we'll be talking about some…