News; Czechs host mountain running “World Cup” for first time; Dozens of vintage cars embark on “Thousand Miles of Czechoslovakia” race; Horse rider Lata Brandisová.
News; Karlovy Vary International Film Festival gets underway in just over a week; Czech paediatricians can begin ordering Covid vaccines; interview with Monika Vintrlíková
News; Czech Republic begins evacuation of Czech Embassy; Pecka Castle’s mediaeval walled-up woman; historian Pauline Bren on normalisation.
Archaeologists unearth divine thrones, thousands of prehistoric objects; a poor week for Czech football clubs in Europe; “Best spas in the Czech Republic”–Teplice
Interview with Czech Ambassador to Canada Bořek Lizec.
Special anniversary show featuring gems from Radio Prague International's archives
News; German president honours paratroopers who took part in Operation Anthropoid; Czech experts helping to fight the illegal cheetah cub trade in Somaliland
News; Edita Hrdá: The Czech EU presidency will be an opportunity to bring Brussels to Prague; First Czech brain bank starts operating in Prague; Story of Heliodor Pika.
News; another Czech plane in Kabul to evacuate Afghan colleagues; Czech beer-brewing in Cyprus; the Cistercian Monastery in Vyšší Brod.
News; Kabul evacuation program ends; up to half of adults may already have Covid-19 antibodies; Robert Guttmann, the “most caricatured man” of 20th century Prague
News; Burial mound found near Říp; Project seeks to save crucian carp in Czech waters; Interview with woman stranded in Kabul.
News; Massive Covid testing due to Omicron; Faces of Great Moravian noblemen reconstructed; Chateau Lobkowitz, former seat of powerful noble families in Bohemia
This edition of the Sunday Music Show highlights music by international performers due to hold concerts in the Czech Republic in the year 2022.
News; Traditional New Year celebrations in Czechia muted by Covid; Most-shared Czech news report on Facebook in 2021? Covid-19 disinformation; The CIA and Czechoslovakia.
News; To Antarctica! Czech scientists to study climate change, animals and stress; Clown Doctors celebrate 20 years at Czech hospitals; Wenceslas II.
News; Lipavský backs sanctions to rein in Russia over Ukraine; First skis imported to Czech lands 130 years ago; Kampa Island: Prague’s ‘little Venice’
News; Czech hospitals deal with growing number of post-Covid syndrome in children; Economist sees “very difficult time” for low income families in 2022; ‘Noráci’ project
“And I regret some of the recent behaviour that Russia has exhibited, and I’ll be glad to talk about that later including the reduction of oil supplies to Czechoslovakia…
The Czech Union of Private Practitioners is ringing alarm bells. According to their data, the Czech Republic will lack around 800 medical specialists and general…
Kosovo marked 10 years of independence in February and is now recognized as a sovereign by 113 UN members. Even 10 years on, however, the country relies heavily on US and…
Six months after the Czech government approved Czechia as the official geographical name for the Czech Republic we look at whether the short, snappy name for the country…
Czechs are looking back at 20 years in NATO. Their country joined the Alliance together with Hungary and Poland on March 12, 1999. Since then NATO has grown significantly…
An in-depth survey commissioned by Czech Radio suggests that Czech society is divided into six social classes that differ in terms of resources and status. The study…
The market with prefabricated wooden houses in the Czech Republic is experiencing a major boom, the website ihned.cz reports. While ten years ago, there were around one…
How is the traditional Czech lager brewed, what is special about Czech bread, how many kinds of dumplings do Czechs have and what is a typical Czech dessert?