Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100Thu, 23 Jul 2026 05:26:01 +0200Interpreter Jana Fraňková: Havel was always eager to learn – and his English constantly improvedhttps://english.radio.cz/interpreter-jana-frankova-havel-was-always-eager-learn-and-his-english-8187969© 2026 Radio Prague InternationalFor many years Jana Fraňková was the regular interpreter for President Václav Havel when he welcomed foreign visitors and travelled abroad. Fraňková was one of the few Czechs of her generation to graduate from Oxford University and following her return to Prague in the 1970s was harassed by the secret police for translating for Charter 77. She was also involved, she told me at Radio Prague’s studios, with the Jan Hus Educational Foundation, a group of Western academics who provided underground support to intellectuals in Czechoslovakia.encr@radio.cz (Cesky Rozhlas)webmaster@radio.cz (CRo Webmaster) https://english.radio.cz/sites/default/files/images/frankova_jana.jpg?timestamp=1590514917 Interpreter Jana Fraňková: Havel was always eager to learn – and his English constantly improved https://english.radio.cz/interpreter-jana-frankova-havel-was-always-eager-learn-and-his-english-8187969 Radio Prague International Radio Prague International radio.prague.int@gmail.com clean 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9