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Liba Taylor – Photographer who has spent career documenting aid projects around globe

After fleeing from her native Prague in August 1968, Liba Taylor made a new life for herself in the UK, where she studied photography under a member of the prestigious…
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Liba Taylor – Photographer who has spent career documenting aid projects around globe

After fleeing from her native Prague in August 1968, Liba Taylor made a new life for herself in the UK, where she studied photography under a member of the prestigious…
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Klara Polackova - the first Czech woman to reach the peak of Mount Everest

Little over a month ago Klara Polackova was on top of the world, literally, as she became the first Czech woman to ever reach the peak of the world's highest mountain…
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New literary award in honour of a Czech who became a true world citizen

One of the highpoints of last month’s Bookworld international book fair in Prague was the presentation of the first George – or Jiří – Theiner Award. Named after a Czech…
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Czechs in Afghanistan, Pt. III: You have to ask the women where the water is, but how?

Say Afghanistan, and a whole range of difficult issues comes to mind, at the forefront of which is the position of women. In the next edition of Radio Prague’s special…
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Pavel Přikryl – Following up on People in Need’s Afghan mission one year on

One year ago this month we brought you a special series on the work of Czechs in Afghanistan, primarily the efforts of the charity organisation People in Need, which works…
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Rudy Linka – a guitar virtuoso bringing world renowned musicians to Czech cities and towns with Bohemia Jazz Fest

The world-renowned jazz guitar player Rudy Linka was born in Prague but moved to Sweden at a young age. After half a decade there he left for the US, and has been living…
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Eva Jiricna: taming steel, glass and stone to create lightness and space

If you want to give someone a really stylish Christmas present that gives you a taste of the very best of Czech design, then I think I have just the thing for you. A…
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Helppes: training dogs for people with physical and mental health disabilities

The Prague-based NGO Helppes trains assistance dogs for people with disabilities. Established in 2001, it trains about 15 service dogs a year and is the only organization…
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Seeing former underground students enter politics post-1989 was wonderful, says philosopher Roger Scruton

The British philosopher Roger Scruton began giving underground seminars at the homes of Czechoslovak dissidents in the late 1970s. He was eventually thrown out of the…
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Karel Gott retro exhibition charts success of Czech pop icon

An ambitious floating exhibition has opened in Prague with the target of at least equalling some of the new style of shows devoted to rock and pop greats such as the…
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“In '70s Czechoslovakia I saw scenes from Forman’s films everywhere – I didn’t feel that with other directors”

The great Czech film director Miloš Forman – who turned 85 today – is perhaps best-known around the world for One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and Amadeus, massive movies…
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Czech branch of ADRA helping to create better living conditions in Ethiopia

Africa Day, celebrated both on the African continent and around the world on May 25, is an opportunity to take stock of the continent’s development, achievements and…
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Czech explains how health warning turned him into long distance hiker

Jakub Čech is a successful sound engineer who has worked on countless Czech films, but years of work have left him in poor shape. He decided to improve his health by…
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Dating agency head: we focus on the life you want, not the one you have

Jakub Mertl and his wife Kristyna who run a successful personalized dating agency, recently made headlines by establishing an online dating agency catering specially to…
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Exploring Roots: Artist Sonya Darrow and Her Project Stezky/Pathways

Artist Sonya Darrow spends her time in the Czech Republic and in Iowa, two places where she feels at home. Her interesting exhibition “Stezky/Pathways” recently opened at…
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Miloš Forman, the Czech filmmaker who adapted his style and conquered Hollywood

Miloš Forman, the most successful Czech film director of all time, died on Friday at the age of 86. Forman was known and loved around the globe for One Flew Over the…
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Blood, sweat and seals in Antarctic

A fifteen-member team of Czech scientists has recently returned from what was already their 10th expedition to the James Ross Island in the Antarctica. The scientists from…
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Czech tales from the crypt: mummification as a status symbol

What, apart from blue blood, do Wenceslaus I, Přemysl Otakar II, John of Luxembourg and Charles IV, the first king of Bohemia to become Holy Roman Emperor, have in common…
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“Einstein in Bohemia” – part 1: how a Prague sojourn sparked his theory of general relativity, journey of self-discovery

Albert Einstein’s tenure as a professor of theoretical physics in Prague is often noted in passing – as an “interlude” or a “sojourn” of no great significance, even though…
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Lucie Lomová: no bounds to reality

Comic books and graphic novels are rapidly becoming a popular and recognized form of Czech literature and they build on a tradition in this country that goes back well…
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From the Weeklies

Simona Rendlova chose her third child from a catalogue. A photograph and a few elementary data were enough for her to make the choice and adopt, over a considerable…
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Children’s theatre brings real-life stories to the stage

Prague-based Story Theatre has released a new CD called "Journeys" with songs from its original show, based on true family stories of the children from the theatre group.
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The strange tale of the Prague English Grammar School

Today the English College in Prague is one of several private secondary schools where pupils are taught in the English language. In this day and age, this is nothing…
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Czech cooperation aid in Georgia: From local business support to landscape protection

Landscape protection, development of tourism and support of alternative social services – these are just a few examples of Czech development cooperation in Georgia.
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