Rosie Johnston

My special guest in the studio this New Year’s Eve is cocktail expert Alexander Mikšovic, who has written eleven books on the art of the cocktail, and trained generations…

Over the last couple of months, American glassmaker Charlie Parriott has been working with Czech scientists and craftsmen to make the biggest wine bottle in the world. The…

This month’s Music Profile is dedicated to the prodigious Czech singing talent Waldemar Matuška. An excellent actor to boot, Matuška starred in, and sang on the…

I recently went on a visit to the very easternmost reaches of Slovakia, not for the first time in all of my years of Czech and Slovak endeavour. But this was the first…

Not everyone has been happy with how the Czech government has planned for the country’s fast-approaching EU presidency, but have you ever wondered what, in such a…

Artěl was a turn-of-the-century collective of young Prague-based designers sometimes referred to as the ‘Czech Bauhaus’. The movement is nowadays most famous for its…

In Business News this week: Czechs are spending much less on their Christmas shopping this year than last; the US has put the Czech Republic on a pirate-goods blacklist…

Česká RAPublika is a new documentary following the lives of some of the best-known names in Czech rap. Over the last three years, director Pavel Abrahám has followed the…

Visitors to Prague often take away a couple of words of Czech, and ‘herna’ is very often one of them. The word, meaning ‘gaming bar’ is written all over the city, with…