After a year of events dedicated to highlighting the legacy of Bohemian King and Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV, CzechTourism is preparing its main theme for 2017. The…
Last week Prague locals as well as visitors had the chance to see 166 performances of theater, poetry, dance, music, puppets, improvisation and other shows, mostly by…
To mark the centenary of Czech Radio, the public broadcaster’s jazz station prepared a special project called 100 Years of Jazz/100 Years of Radio.
The Bazant Pohoda festival has been the biggest music festival in Slovakia for several years now. This year, it has become a member of the European association of summer…
Jan Novák has explored some of the most notable themes in modern Czech culture and history, including the Mašín brothers group, Milan Kundera and much more.
In this series we present 100 songs which have gone down in the history of Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic. On Czech Radio’s web pages you can find a poll, in which…
In Mailbox today: Sunday Music Show, Radio Prague's annual competition, the National Library, what happened to internet "live broadcasts". Listeners quoted: Stephen…
The outdoor Summer Shakespeare Festival at Prague Castle has been a great success in recent years. However, it is not the only such seasonal theatrical experience…
In Magazine: Czech tennis star Petra Kvitová confirms breaking up with hockey player Radek Meidl, car enthusiasts put together a collection of veteran Skodas, Czech Radio…
In this series we introduce 100 songs which have gone down in the history of Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic. They became popular by being played throughout…
Antonín Kokeš is the man behind Antonínovo pekařství, a successful chain of bakeries just about to open a new branch, and also owns leading Czech board game makers Albi.
Karel Gott is unquestionably one of the most successful figures in the history of Czech show business. Over the course of his career, spanning over six decades, he…
The 38th annual Summer Film School festival, that took place in Uherské Hradiště last week, attracted over 5000 visitors. This year’s program was mainly focused on…
In this series we present 100 songs which have gone down in the history of Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic. They became widely popular, were played during important…
The F. X. Salda Award is named after one the key figures in the history of Czech writing. Salda, who lived from 1867 to 1937, was the father of modern Czech literary…
For fifteen years now the Museum of Romany culture in the Czech Republic's second city of Brno has been mapping the rich, but sometimes tragic and often misunderstood…
In Mailbox this week: translations of Czech place names in Radio Prague reports, the theme music of Magic Carpet and the name of the duo featured in the April 6 edition…
The annual international music festival Strings of Autumn kicks off on Tuesday with a concert at Prague’s Vítkov National Memorial. The event, which was established in…
Today in Mailbox: More responses to the end of shortwave broadcasts, Sunday music programmes on Radio Prague, objections to the contents of Radio Prague's broadcasts…
