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How to tell your kids: Teaching the Velvet Revolution in schools

How should you teach children about November 17 in a way that conveys its gravity but without being too heavy-handed? And how much do kids nowadays actually know about it?
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Czechs and Bavarians celebrate historic anniversary of railway re-opening

For many decades, a train station located right on the Czech-German border was a symbol for the division between Germany and communist Czechoslovakia. The train station…
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Ales Brezina - from Martinu to Menzel to Milada Horakova

Today's guest for One on One is Ales Brezina, the head of the Bohuslav Martinu Institute in Prague. Mr. Brezina has spent the last twelve years compiling, annotating and…
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Czech showbiz legend Karel Gott reaches 70

One of the most successful figures in the history of Czech show business Karel Gott is celebrating his 70th birthday. The singer, who is also popular in such states as…
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Czech stars conquer Kremlin

Three Czech music stars have conquered the Kremlin. The greatest Czech pop-star of all time Karel Gott, the best-selling diva Lucie Bila and opera tenor Stefan Margita…
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Czech culture in the time of coronavirus: cathedral offers virtual reality tour, Prague Spring to air live

Obliged to close their doors to the public during the coronavirus pandemic, a wide range of Czech cultural, historical and religious institutions have begun offering an…
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Anifilm: lifeblood for short and student film productions

The annual Anifilm festival of animated film kicks off in the South Bohemian town of Třeboň on Tuesday. Over the next six days, hundreds of films, as well as music videos…
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Bridges over troubled water

Jostled between nation states and ideologies for the best part of two centuries, traces of an ever changing Czech identity crisis sit subtly in the foreground of the…
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Oslavy Prahy festival is underway

The 3rd annual Oslavy Prahy, or “Celebrations of Prague”, festival is underway in the Czech capital. The programme offers music and theatrical performances at various…
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My Brno – Tomino Kelar

Tomino Kelar runs Brno’s top independent music venue, Kabinet Múz, as well as drumming with the band Midi Lidi. Kelar is from the Moravian capital but actually lived for…
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Prague’s Ponrepo cinema to screen existentialist masterpiece “Arsenal” as part of series exploring Ukrainian filmmaking

Arsenal, a revolutionary epic that depicts the January uprising in Kyiv in 1918, is considered to be the most prominent expressionist film in Ukrainian cinematography.
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Czech box-office hits premiere in New York

Several Czech films made their New York debuts at The Brooklyn Academy of Music recently. The New York cultural institution's annual Czech film series is now it its ninth…
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Legendary rock frontman Petr Janda celebrates his 80th birthday

Petr Janda, founder and frontman of legendary Czech rock band Olympic, celebrated his 80th birthday on Monday.
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Katka Garcia – Alfons Mucha’s cosmopolitan great-granddaughter

Katka Garcia, as her name suggests, is half Czech and half Spanish, with a bit of Russian thrown in. In addition to that she sings traditional music from Ireland and…
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Tribute to reflect Miloš Forman’s “close friendship” with Karlovy Vary

This year’s Karlovy Vary film festival will begin with a tribute to the late director Miloš Forman in the form of a screening of Loves of a Blonde followed by a concert of…
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Rybičky 48 – Masters of Czech pop punk

Rybičky 48 is perhaps the most famous Czech pop punk band.
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Fireworks display in Czechoslovakia’s national colours in Prague

A fireworks display in Prague took place at 19 hours 18 minutes –symbolizing the year of the birth of Czechoslovakia 100 years ago. It was titled “Our Common Century” and…
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Museum offers multimedia experience of fires that devastated Prague over centuries

The popularity of disaster movies shows how people are fascinated by catastrophes, natural and otherwise. Now there’s a permanent exhibition by the City of Prague Museum…
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A tour of the Schwarzenberg tomb in Trebon

In an extended special edition of Czechs in History we visit the town of Trebon, some 150 kilometres south of Prague. This is where the Schwarzenberg nobility resided…
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Gunčíková gets Czech Republic to Eurovision final

The Czech Republic has made it to the grand final of the Eurovision Song Contest for the first time in history thanks to 22-year-old pop-rock singer Gabriela Gunčíková. At…
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Katerina Winterova - National Theatre actress AND award-winning singer

I'm joined today by Katerina Winterova (27), who is an actress at the National Theatre in Prague. She also sings with the critically acclaimed band Ecstasy of St Theresa…
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Vyšehrad –a symphonic poem from Bedřich Smetana’s My Country

The first poem from Bedřich Smetana’s My Country, Vyšehrad, composed in 1875, celebrates a symbol of the very beginning of the Czech state and its mythical past.
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Czech Republic taking part in Eurovision for first time this year

The Czech Republic is this year taking part in the Eurovision song contest for the first time, with Czech TV launching a new competition on Friday to find the country's…
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Glenn Spicker: the American who brought bagels to the Czech Republic

Glenn Spicker is a successful businessman who was drawn to the Czech capital through an avid interest in the history and politics of this region. Once the fall of the Iron…
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Mailbox

Today in Mailbox: Response to programmes on 15th century Czech scholar Paul Craw, the name "Czechia" and Operation Anthropoid. Listeners/readers quoted: David Willson, Bob…
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