Pavla Horáková

Furry mammoths with long white tusks wading through snow, a hairy stone-age man chopping wood with a hand-axe... Several generations of Czechs have grown up daydreaming…

All governments in the Czech Republic since the fall of communism have been cautious over reforming the country's system of state controlled rents, afraid of the impact on…

All kids in the Czech Republic know it - and most love it. "Ctyrlistek", or a four-leaf clover in Czech, is a children's comic magazine and a very popular collectable; you…

This week: Jara Cimrman and the Greatest Czech programme; Radio Prague's broadcasts on Saturday, February 19th; shortwave reception in the Philippines. Listeners quoted…

In previous editions of Czech Science we reported on a couple of computer systems, specialising in speech recognition, developed by the Laboratory of Computer Speech…

In this week's edition: International Mother Language Day, Radio Prague's listeners of Czech descent, new Greenpeace TV spot. Listeners quoted: Ashik Eqbal Tokon and…

For most of my life I lived in the northern Prague district of Bohnice. For many Czechs that place name has a metaphorical meaning of "madhouse". That is because between…

The Police Museum in Prague is currently holding a rather unusual exhibition that is attracting record crowds. It looks at prostitution in Prague at the turn of the 19th…