Pavla Horáková

In the Czech Republic, summer is a time of fun fairs, day trips and also swimming and bathing in lakes and open air pools. Those events and locations are associated with a…

Today in Mailbox: We announce the winners of our listeners' competition as well as a new question for August. We quote from e-mails sent by: Bob Boundy, Harry T. Klugel…

Hello and welcome to Czech by Numbers, Radio Prague's special Czech language programme in which we look at the use of numbers in everyday Czech. Today, as promised, we…

Exactly 700 years have passed since the last male member of the Bohemian royal dynasty, the Premyslids, died. On August 4, 1306, king Wenceslas III. was murdered in the…

In the high summer months, many water bodies are plagued by surface water bloom, a layer of organisms called cyanobacteria or blue-green algae, which thrive in water rich…

One of the most precious works of art to be seen in the Czech Republic is no doubt "The Feast of the Rose Garlands" by the German painter Albrecht Duerer. Exactly 500…

100 years ago to the day, the first astronomical observation was carried out in the Ondrejov Observatory southeast of Prague. Only a modest establishment at the beginning…

Last week the Czech Republic suffered its most serious power crisis in decades, which forced the Czech transmission grid operator to declare a state of emergency and…