Pavla Horáková

Czech from head to toe is back after a week, this time to take a closer look at one of the most vital organs in the human body - the heart. Although the heart is primarily…

All today's papers devote their front pages to the newly elected Czech President Vaclav Klaus and speculation about what his election will imply for the ruling coalition…

Naturally, all the papers are dominated by today's elections, the third attempt to elect a successor to Vaclav Havel. With the exception of Pravo, all of the dailies carry…

From head to toe - that is how we explore the Czech language in our programme. More precisely, we concentrate on Czech idioms which refer to parts of the human body. Our…

The papers today are dominated by the case of the collapsed bank Union banka and the alleged tapping of several Czech MPs' offices. MLADA FRONTA DNES and PRAVO carry large…

Outside the Czech Republic, Vaclav Klaus is probably best known as the spiritual father of the country's post-communist economic transformation. Since 1989 Vaclav Klaus…

With the possible war against Iraq increasing security risks around the world, the Czech Interior Ministry has stepped up security measures as a precaution against…

Welcome to Radio Prague's weekly programme in which we examine the Czech language from head to toe, or in other words we look at idioms which refer to parts of the body…

In this week's Czechs in History, we return to the second half of the nineteenth century, to the time when the Czech nation was still only dreaming about its own statehood…