Rosie Johnston

2008 was a good year for Czech javelin thrower Barbora Špotáková. In the course of one season, the 27-year-old took Olympic gold in a nail-biting final in Beijing, smashed…

Hello and welcome to SoundCzech, which this week finds us dissecting a song by ageing rockers and former Czech Eurovision flag-fliers, Kabát. The song is called 'Cesta do…

Three generations of Czechs have been raised on the adventures of Bobík, Myšpulín, Fifinka and Pinďa – the stars of the comic Čtyřlístek. This Friday, the now-cult comic…

The Eastern Partnership is an EU initiative which sets out to strengthen ties with six of the bloc’s Eastern neighbours; amongst them, Ukraine, Georgia and, most…

Prague’s metro is relatively new in comparison to that of Paris or London, but in the course of its short existence, it has become one of the busiest underground systems…

Lukáš Přibyl’s series of documentaries, ‘Forgotten Transports’, depicts a lesser-known side of the Holocaust, played out in locations a lot less notorious than Belsen or…