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Big Band of Czech Radio celebrates 50 years of its existence

The legendary Big Band of Czech Radio is celebrating 50 years of its existence. The history of the band goes back to the 1960s, when it was called the Czechoslovak Radio…
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Trebic - a recent addition to the UNESCO World Heritage List

Today I'm in Trebic, a town in south-west Moravia with a very rich history. Recently Trebic has been in the headlines, because its former Jewish quarter and St Procopius…
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1950 – 33rd Segment: “We’re All Young”

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…
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Burna Boy, Gilberto Gil and other international artists to take centre stage at Colours of Ostrava

Colours of Ostrava is set to take place in the Moravian city on Wednesday through to Saturday. We spoke to Jiří Sedlák about what to expect in this year’s edition.
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The Czech town of Nasavrky to host Lughnasadh, an annual festival of Celtic culture

Celtic culture has many fans in the Czech Republic who annually organize a Lughnasadh harvest festival to celebrate the country’s Celtic roots.
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Iva Bittová – Czech avant-garde violinist, singer and composer

Iva Bittová is a phenomenal Czech avant-garde violinist, singer and composer who has developed a music style of her own. She moved to upstate New York over ten years ago…
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Diamond Jubilee of eclectic "Smetana’s Litomyšl" international opera festival underway

An annual international opera festival celebrating the works of Bedřich Smetana – perhaps the most famous Czech composers of all time – kicks off on Thursday in the…
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Children's exhibition commemorates the victims of a wartime atrocity

To the sound of local children playing traditional Czech folk music, a rather special exhibition of paintings was opened at the end of last week. Several hundred works by…
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“We had crazy things happen constantly”: Matt Welch's Prague years

Today a prominent journalist and commentator in his native US, in 1991 Matt Welch was one of the founders of Prognosis, Czechoslovakia’s first English-language newspaper.
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London Symphony Orchestra opens 60th Prague Spring Festival

On Thursday night Bedrich Smetana's "Ma Vlast" or "My Country" played by the London Symphony Orchestra will open the 60th Prague Spring Festival. The biggest and oldest…
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This week in Mailbox: Bomb threat at Prague airport on October 7; new frequencies; music on RP on October 3; Adolf Hoffmeister. Listeners quoted: Frank Oehlschlaegel…
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In this week's edition: the death of ice-hockey coach Ivan Hlinka; one year since the death of Radio Prague's Olga Szantova; Olympics music request. Listeners quoted…
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Stars as Red as the Morning Sky: The Cold War in Czechoslovakia

In this programme, the last in the current series looking at Czech history through the archives, we get a flavour of the Cold War. The archives throw up some curious…
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Krystof Michal on Support Lesbiens - past and present

Support Lesbiens headed by frontman Krystof Michal are one of the Czech Republic's most well-known bands which - with the exception of a major five year hiatus - have been…
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Olympic - 40 years on stage

It may seem unbelievable, but the Czech "dinosaurs" of rock-music, probably the most famous Czech band, Olympic, are celebrating 40 years on stage. You can't talk about…
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Jan Hammer - the man behind the Miami Vice theme

Czech-born composer Jan Hammer is perhaps best known for Crockett's Theme - the signature tune from the popular TV series Miami Vice, which was a massive worldwide hit in…
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In this edition: New Year's greetings, the most popular winter foods, the history of written Czech, the winner of December's competition. Listeners quoted: Muhammad Shamim…
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New recording of Janacek's "Sarka" released

The legendary mediaeval war between men and women - that is said to have taken place just outside today's Prague - is one of the central myths in the Czech national…
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Czech House in Islington pulls in the crowds

Thousands of people – Czechs and Londoners alike – have come to the Czech House in London since the start of the London Olympics. Inaugurated on Friday by President Václav…
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Sting: My father and grandfather had to point rifles at Germans – thanks to the EU I’ve never had to

The biggest star at this weekend’s Metronome music festival in Prague will without question be the UK musician Sting, who led The Police before embarking on an enormously…
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Czech musicians react to news of Jackson’s death

Some of the Czech Republic’s top musicians and music critics have been reacting to news of the death of American pop star Michael Jackson - many recalling the star’s sole…
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RefuFest supports integration of foreigners

This weekend, Prague’s Kampa Island turned into a melting pot of cultures from all over the world, hosting a festival called RefuFest. Now in its fifth year, the festival…
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Original Dvořák score accompanies Metropolitan Opera production

On the occasion of the Metropolitan Opera’s new production of Antonín Dvořák’s Rusalka, which premieres on February 2, the Czech Centre in New York has prepared a unique…
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Jan Werich - Czechoslovakia's "wise clown"

Welcome to Czechs in History. Today we look at the famous Czech actor Jan Werich, who never lost his ability to laugh or his sharp social awareness, even through two world…
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Today in Mailbox: Czech Radio’s Regina building and the City Tower on Pankrác Plain, a comment on president Václav Klaus’s speech in the European Parliament, a request for…
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