Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100Thu, 23 Jul 2026 08:19:38 +0200https://english.radio.cz/jaroslava-moserova-political-david-who-stood-against-two-goliaths-8070825© 2026 Radio Prague International Three weeks ago few people in this country knew much about Jaroslava Moserova. Some perhaps would have known her as a former ambassador and senator for the tiny Civic Democratic Alliance. Others would have seen her name inside their favourite Dick Francis book - she's translated almost four dozen of his detective stories into Czech. And then others still would know her as the burns specialist who was the first doctor to treat Jan Palach, the Czech student who set himself alight on Wenceslas Square in 1969. Today, however, she's known as the woman who stood against two political giants in the Czech presidential elections, and - surprisingly - eliminated one of them in the first round. When I visited Jaroslava Moserova this week in the Senate, I asked her if sudden fame had changed her life. encr@radio.cz (Cesky Rozhlas)webmaster@radio.cz (CRo Webmaster) https://english.radio.cz/sites/default/files/images/moserova_jaroslava1_0.jpg?timestamp=1590297522 https://english.radio.cz/jaroslava-moserova-political-david-who-stood-against-two-goliaths-8070825 Radio Prague International Radio Prague International radio.prague.int@gmail.com clean 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9