In today’s edition of our Sunday Music Show, we listen to music by singer Marta Kubišová, one of the country's best loved performers, whose song A Prayer for Marta has…
Welcome to Encore, our monthly look at the world of Czech classical music. Today we're going to be departing from the security of Dvorak or Smetana, and delving into the…
The town of Hořice has a long tradition of passion plays maintained by the local inhabitants. One such family helped save and preserve a valuable music score from 1935.
A poet, writer, journalist, fast and merciless polemist but also an outstanding dancer, ironical skeptic and lonely hypochondriac - all this can characterize Jan Neruda…
This Tuesday it's 120 years since Bedrich Smetana's cycle of symphonic poems, 'Ma vlast'- or 'My Country'- was premiered in Prague. It was a significant moment in the…
The Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra has called the legendary Studio 1 its home since 1935 - a space that was once among the most modern in Europe.
The three letters - QSL - constitute one of the codes originally developed in the days of the telegraph.
A new document has been discovered in Prague’s Klementinum which contains fragments of six two-voice musical compositions from the 13th century.
Dive into the 90-year history of international broadcasting that shaped the image of Czechoslovakia and became the voice of hope, art and political propaganda.
Going to Africa is still an exotic trip, but not an impossible dream. African safaris are highly popular and tourists from all parts of the world come to see lions and…
If any country in the world is home to the Christmas carol, it has to be the Czech Republic. The tradition of carolling goes back centuries, and Czech Christmas music is a…
In Encore today we review two recent CD releases. One is an anthology covering the best part of a millennium of Czech music, and the other a celebration of the work of one…
By Ian Willoughby In the last ten years the nightclub Roxy on Prague's Dlouha street - around five minutes from Old Town Square - has become one of the most popular clubs…
The National Gallery in Prague will be opening it's largest exhibition of the year 2001 this Friday. Labeled "The Glory of the Baroque in Bohemia", it includes exhibitions…
In this edition of Sunday Music Show we look at a new album by the popular Czech singer, composer and multi-instrumentalist Radůza, called Marathon – příběh běžce or…
In around a week's time - on May 1st - Czechs, as new citizens of the European Union, will be able to cross their borders at any point without a passport. Their Czech ID…
Prague's Mala Strana or Lesser Town may be beautiful but it's not an easy place to find a restaurant with prices the average resident of the city can afford. One of the…
The Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra’s 100-year history is also a century of remarkable conductors, each of whom imprinted their own character on the ensemble.
The Brewery Museum in Pilsen celebrates the birth of the country's most famous export article.
Some of the country’s biggest ever musical artistes, including Karel Gott, Helena Vondráčková and Waldemar Matuška, have recorded hits at Czech Radio’s storied Studio A.
On the eve of International Roma Day, Radio Prague is featuring music by some of the country’s best Romany singers.
Every year Prague hosts the largest Romani festival in the world. This year's 27th edition brought Romani music, theater performances and outdoor happenings.
If you were to hold a competition for the world's most musical mountain village, then I think the little community of Paseky nad Jizerou in north eastern Bohemia would be…
From January till May Radio Prague listeners had the opportunity to hear 100 songs which have gone down in the history of Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic. And…
