Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100Tue, 28 Jul 2026 16:10:35 +0200https://english.radio.cz/paul-wilson-pure-humour-without-jokes-1970s-prague-8295055© 2026 Radio Prague InternationalLast week the Václav Havel Library hosted the second of a series of interviews with people who knew and worked with Havel. This month’s guest was the Canadian Paul Wilson, who has translated much of Havel’s work and lived in Prague from 1967 to 1977. He witnessed the Soviet-led invasion, and in the years that followed he became part of the Czech underground music scene, until he was ultimately expelled from the country. Few people in the English-speaking world can claim to be as steeped in the life and culture of Czechoslovakia in the last two decades of communist rule as Paul Wilson. In Czech Books this week, we bring you extracts from his conversation with David Vaughan.encr@radio.cz (Cesky Rozhlas)webmaster@radio.cz (CRo Webmaster) https://english.radio.cz/sites/default/files/images/wilson_paul_0.jpg?timestamp=1591199519 https://english.radio.cz/paul-wilson-pure-humour-without-jokes-1970s-prague-8295055 Radio Prague International Radio Prague International radio.prague.int@gmail.com clean 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9