Pavla Horáková

Hello and welcome to a new episode of our language series in which we look at the Czech language from head to toe. Today's body part is the nose, the prominent part of the…

Almost exactly a year ago, five members of the communist era political police the StB and officials from the communist Interior Ministry were sentenced in Prague for abuse…

Apart from the ongoing search for an eligible new Czech head of state and various profiles of the outgoing President Vaclav Havel, the papers are dominated by the…

Hello and welcome to our Czech language series in which we study the Czech language from head to toe. I hope you are all ears today because we are going to talk about …

It was not so long ago that citizens of Czechoslovakia were risking imprisonment and in many cases their lives trying to leave the country for the West. It is impossible…

According to latest opinion polls almost fifty percent of Czechs would like to see Civic Democrat Vaclav Klaus as the new Czech president. The second largest share of…

The papers continue to report on the upcoming second attempt to elect a new Czech president. Most dailies write about what they call the behind-the-scene wheelings and…

This new series of Radio Prague's language-teaching programme examines the Czech language from head to toe. Last time we looked at some idioms using the word head or hlava…

For many decades Czech women have been used to giving birth in maternity hospitals, in an environment they have often perceived as cold, impersonal and unfriendly. In…