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Candid series aims to help podcast phenomenon catch on among Czechs

Czech Radio has just launched Zhasni!, or Turn the Lights Out!, the station’s first dedicated podcast series. The move is aimed at boosting Czech listeners’ usage of…
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Historian Igor Lukeš: Exile was much easier during the Cold War

Professor Igor Lukeš teaches at Boston University and has written extensively on modern Czech history, the Cold War and contemporary developments in Central and Eastern…
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People love having their stories heard, says acclaimed documentary maker Kim Longinotto

Kim Longinotto’s Dreamcatcher is a compelling documentary centred on the remarkable Brenda Myers-Powell. A former prostitute and drug addict, she now runs a foundation…
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Bohdan Pomahač: Transplanted kidneys’ half-life is about 15 years – we can’t expect faces to last longer

Bohdan Pomahač led the team that carried out the first ever full transplant of a human face in the United States. The Boston-based plastic surgeon recently received the…
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A Stage for Revolution 1

The date is Tuesday 19 October 1965 and we are in Prague. A 21-year-old British girl has just got off a train at the Art Nouveau building of Prague’s Main Station. Over…
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1989: the Velvet Revolution in context (or how ‘November’ began in ‘January’)

The date is November 17, 1989, eight days after the fall of the Berlin Wall. A cordon of Czechoslovak riot police blocks the path of thousands of university students…
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Radek Špicar – Business leader spurred by Brexit vote to combat Czech Euroscepticism at local level

Radek Špicar is vice-president of the Czech Confederation of Industry. But since last year – spurred into action by the UK’s Brexit vote – he has also been travelling the…
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Kieran Williams: A week before the invasion Dubček still believed he had time

Soviet-led forces invaded Czechoslovakia in August 1968 in response to the Prague Spring, a reform movement launched earlier that year by then freshly installed Communist…
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Ambassador to Nato Jiří Šedivý: Czechs on target to combat new threats

The Czech Republic is on target to meet its Nato commitments – in terms of spending on defence, taking part in foreign missions in deadly hotspots such as Afghanistan, and…
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Joseph Balaz: From fleeing communist Czechoslovakia as a student to working for global celebrities in New York

Joseph Balaz is president of the Bohemian Benevolent and Literary Association, which brings together the leading Czech organisations in New York. But Balaz’s main activity…
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Czech-born jazz singer Barbora Tellinger on moving home after 50 years in South Africa

Barbora Tellinger is a Czech-born jazz singer who after many years in South Africa, now lives in Prague and performs with her husband, Grammy-nominated pianist John Fresk.
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Jan Patočka, philosopher who “had really huge impact on direction of country”

Jan Patočka is regarded as perhaps the greatest Czech philosopher of the 20th century. A new book makes several of his writings available in English for the first time.
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“He wanted to start a new religion”: Masaryk’s ambitious plan for the new Czechoslovakia

President Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk had a very ambitious plan when he founded Czechoslovakia: to create a new, civil religion.
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“We see ourselves standing in a desert” – Afghan describes life under Taliban and her journey out

What Afghans miss the most is freedom, says Zakia, an Afghan woman with Czech residency who managed to leave the country.
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New book explores role of Czech parachutists during WWII and one of their last operations

Foursquare: The Last Parachutist is a new book that delves into the story of Czechoslovak WWII parachutists, focusing on signals officer Jaroslav Bublík.
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Věra Chase: death, strawberries and a dip in the Baltic

Věra Chase is one of the most original voices in contemporary Czech writing. She has just finished putting together a collection of her poetry, both new poems and old…
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Without effective government action, future bleak for Czech Roma minority

The Romanies, or Roma, are the Czech Republic’s biggest minority. The relations between Roma and the majority population have long been troubled but recently took a turn…
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Olga Lomová: Western misconceptions could let China export much of its system and ultimately contribute to our enslavement

Czech-Chinese relations have been in the news a lot lately, but how have they really developed over the decades? And how should we view Chinese moves to develop a new high…
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“There is good, better and then there is the USSR.” – New book depicts life in communist Czechoslovakia through memories of people who experienced it

A new book on Communist Czechoslovakia was launched under the auspices of the Minister of Foreign Affairs at Prague’s Czernin Palace this week. Titled Czechoslovakia…
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Czech Ambassador to Ethiopia Pavel Mikeš: ‘If you wait long enough, an egg will walk on two legs’

Pavel Mikeš, the Czech Ambassador to Ethiopia, studied African History and Linguistics at Charles University in the 1980s. Despite not being allowed to travel to the…
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Open for business? The economic case for Czech same-sex marriages

Open For Business, a coalition of leading global companies dedicated to furthering LGBT+ inclusion, has published a new brief on the Czech Republic making an “economic and…
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John Tusa: Our modernist Baťa estate in UK was exact model of what we’d left behind in Zlín

Sir John Tusa anchored the top UK current affairs show Newsnight in the 1980s before heading the BBC World Service for seven years. Though today a member of the British…
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Darujeme české Vánoce - online project that seeks to help Czech small businesses during Christmas

To help struggling businesses and craftsmen, two women have set up Darujeme české Vánoce, an online project that seeks to get Czechs to buy locally.
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Baťamen in Singapore – the story of Silvestr Němec and Baťa’s interwar expansion overseas

We trace the story of Silvestr Němec, one of the hundreds of Baťa emploees sent far and wide into the world to help the company's overseas expansion in the 1930s.
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When Two Become One: Navigating International Marriages

The number of cross-cultural marriages in Czechia is on the rise. Kevin Loo explores the challenges and joys of being married to a Czech partner.
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