Pavla Horáková

Poland has begun three days of mourning after a collapsed roof of an exhibition hall in Katowice in the south of the country killed almost 70 people on Saturday. Among the…

In this week's Mailbox: response to last week's programme dedicated to Jan Palach; graffiti and casinos in Prague; Magazine jingle. Listeners quoted: David Eldridge…

Welcome again to our Czech teaching programme introducing Czech idioms featuring various farm crops. As promised, today we will look at the most common types of fruit in…

The Czech Republic marks Holocaust Remembrance Day on Friday, January 27th, the anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp in 1945. Some 80,000 Bohemian and…

"Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime" - says a famous Chinese proverb. But the second part of the saying may…

"Equal opportunities" is one of the buzzwords of the day. The Czech government has a special council devoted to the issue. The former Czech prime minister, EU commissioner…

In today's special edition of Mailbox we read from listeners' letters dedicated to the memory of Jan Palach, a Czech student who burned himself to death on January 16…

Welcome again to our Czech teaching programme introducing Czech idioms featuring various farm crops. Today we look at fruit.

Beer is without a doubt one of the Czech Republic's best-known products. It attracts thousands to visit the country but Czech brews are also increasingly available abroad…

This week the news arrived from Iran that an expedition of young Czech geologists discovered what might be the largest salt cave in the world. The discovery was no…