Czech sound designer Juraj Mravec has worked on a long list of TV shows that includes such commercial and critical hits as The Crown, Veep, Black Mirror and Peaky Blinders.
Hrishabh Sandilya helps run an NGO that aims to boost migrants’ chances of finding success in their new countries. But prior to that Sandilya lived for in Prague for years.
Barbara Coudenhove-Kalergi was born in Prague in 1932. As a member of the German-speaking minority in Czechoslovakia, she and her family were forced to flee the country at…
Few if any Czechs are more familiar with China than Tomáš Etzler, who was Czech TV’s correspondent there from 2006 to 2014. When we spoke, Etzler told me that right now we…
In this interview, marriage equality campaigner Adéla Horáková says her community fears the mistreatment of LGBT people seen elsewhere in the region may also come here.
We spoke to Tom Keatinge, the founder and director of RUSI’s Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies, about how to tackle dirty money.
We spoke to Jan Kofroň, an international relations scholar at Charles University’s Faculty of Social Sciences, who predicted Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
The Soviet-born, UK-raised analyst and writer Peter Pomerantsev spent most of the 2000s living in Moscow, later recalling those wild years in the hit memoir Nothing is…
The election results are out. The ruling Social Democratic Party has won, with 70 of the 200 seats in parliament and 30.20% of the vote. They are followed by Vaclav…
Václav Havel’s relationship to the United States is the focus of the recently issued book Havel v Americe (Havel in America) by historian Rosamund Johnston and journalist…
Czech journalist Jana Ciglerová recently published the book Americký Deník (American Diary), compiling a series of columns she wrote during a stay in Florida between late…
When one looks back on a thousand years of Czech history one of the names that still carries great weight is that of 17th century thinker Jan Amos Komenský - the humanist…
Twenty-one years ago on Wednesday, on November 17, 1989, a student march was brutally attacked by the police in Prague’s Národní Street; that event sparked a public revolt…
May 1st is the 10th anniversary of the Czech Republic’s accession to the European Union. Ten years ago the country joined the EU within the so called “big bang” expansion…
Tomáš Lom is one of the very few surviving Czechoslovaks who served in Britain’s RAF during World War II. Born Tomáš Löwenstein into a Jewish family in Prague, he signed…
When one looks back on a thousand years of Czech history one of the names that still carries great weight is that of 17th century thinker Jan Amos Komensky - the humanist…
Czech Deputy Foreign Minister Martin Dvořák on the need to maintain EU unity, prepare for a drop in living standards and keeping the EU expansion process on track.
2014 is a year of anniversaries: 25 years since the fall of communism, 15 years since the Czech Republic joined NATO and 10 years since the country joined the European…
The Australian broadcaster and writer Richard Fidler is author of two bestsellers, Ghost Empire, a fascinating reconstruction of the history of ancient Byzantium, and Saga…
The medieval vaulted cellars of the Shakespeare and Sons bookshop offered an atmospheric backdrop to the second of Radio Prague’s series of public discussions, organized…
Hello and welcome to Radio Prague with me, Ruth Fraňková. July 5 is a public holiday in the Czech Republic and on the occasion we are bringing you a special programme…
Hynek Martinec, winner of the UK's BP Young Artist award in 2007, is currently exhibiting a new portrait of his daughter at the ABSURD exhibition in central London.
Film Studies lecturer Adam Whybray has written a history of Czech animation focusing not only on the craft bu in the oft hidden, ambiguous or subversive messages therein.
Anniversaries give us the chance to think again about the meaning of events and their relevance today. Next month it will be exactly 70 years since the destruction by the…
