Rosie Johnston

In Business News this week: It looks like the national bank will postpone cutting interest rates; Plans to privatise Prague Airport have attracted no small amount of…

Thousands of Czech school pupils enjoyed a day off on Monday as their teachers took to the streets to demand more money. Over half of the country’s schools were closed as…

The Vatican has just ordained father of four Jan Kofroň into the Roman Catholic priesthood. This makes Mr Kofroň the Czech Republic’s first ever married Roman Catholic …

Writers from all over the world gathered in Prague this week to recall the strange days of 1968. The Prague Writers’ Festival, which was originally set up to promote…

Hello and welcome to another edition of Sound Czech –Radio Prague’s Czech language programme which helps you learn idioms through song lyrics. Today, we’ll be listening to…

Prague City Hall has launched a new campaign to clamp down on litter in the capital. As of July 1, those caught littering in the city can expect big fines. Councillors say…

Forget the Blue Danube, it’s the greeny-brown Vltava which is the watery muse of artists and musicians in this part of the world. The Vltava is the Czech Republic’s…