Ruth Fraňková

More than 700 Jewish houses in Brno were confiscated by the Nazis during WWII. The houses and their stories are focus of a new exhibition at Brno’s Little Mehrin Museum.

Czech and Slovak archaeologists have discovered the remains of a Mayan city in Guatemala, which is almost three thousand years old.

An event called Night of Dignity is due to take place in Prague on Monday with the aim to draw attention to the poor system of care for people with mental disabilities. 

Thousands of people, mainly students and academics, took part in Thursday’s commemorative procession in honour of the victims of the tragic shooting at the Faculty of Arts.

2024 is the Year of Czech Music, a celebration held once a decade, on every year that ends on the number four, a number that marks many Czech music anniversaries. 

Jukka Ollika is a Finnish harpsichord maker based in Prague, who recently completed an experimental instrument called Omniwerk.

In today’s Sunday Music Show, we will be listening to some of the popular Christmas carols performed by the folk band Harafica. 

One of the many Czech Christmas traditions is the burning of incense cones, known as Františeks, which originated on the Czech-German border more than 300 years ago. 

The Žižkov Tunnel, which also houses a nuclear shelter, was fully completed exactly 70 years ago, on December 19, 1953.

A new comic book has now come out in Czechia, paying tribute to the famous Soviet-era comic superheroine called Octobriana.