Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100Tue, 21 Jul 2026 16:23:52 +0200Fighting the Nazis with humour: wartime broadcasts by the legendary Voskovec and Werichhttps://english.radio.cz/fighting-nazis-humour-wartime-broadcasts-legendary-voskovec-and-werich-8885571© 2026 Radio Prague International Filip Šír from the National Museum in Prague has spent years researching into a series of remarkable wartime broadcasts made by the much-loved Czech duo Jiří Voskovec and Jan Werich.  Their satirical sketches and songs, some of them in English, were broadcast on shortwave from the United States and formed an important part of the campaign to fight Nazi propaganda and indoctrination with humour. Until recently they had been all but forgotten.   encr@radio.cz (Cesky Rozhlas)webmaster@radio.cz (CRo Webmaster) https://english.radio.cz/sites/default/files/images/11a94af637cf0b56b307e8c561f7e228.jpg?timestamp=1777976331 Fighting the Nazis with humour: wartime broadcasts by the legendary Voskovec and Werich https://english.radio.cz/fighting-nazis-humour-wartime-broadcasts-legendary-voskovec-and-werich-8885571 Radio Prague International Radio Prague International radio.prague.int@gmail.com clean 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9