Rosie Johnston

On Thursday, Prague’s Barrandov film studios celebrated their 75th birthday. Over the past three-quarters of a century, the studios have housed over 2,500 film shoots. It…

The Czech president Vaclav Klaus is notorious for outspoken views on climate change. He calls global warming a "false myth" and ambitious environmentalism "the biggest…

Hrabal’s book "I served the King of England" makes working in a restaurant sound very dramatic, and very glamorous. But the novel also suggests that such drama and glamour…

On Monday evening, Prague plays host to the second annual ‘Night of the Open Churches’ festival. The programme offers out-of-hours prayer services and concerts to Prague’s…

Welcome to another edition of SoundCzech – Radio Prague’s Czech language series in which you can learn idioms through song lyrics. Today, we’ll be listening to a tune by…

There was a media frenzy surrounding the opening of the Czech Republic’s first Starbucks on Friday. In its new branch on Prague’s Malostranské náměstí, the world’s largest…

Jiří Josef Kamel was a botanist and missionary born in Brno in 1661. When he was 26, he was sent to the Philippines by the Jesuits to spread God’s word, but it seems that…