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Marta Topferova, a Czech-born, New York-based Latin singer

One critic wrote of Marta Topferova that you could be better off not seeing what she looks like - just listening to her husky jazz vocals you might guess she's a 50…
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DVD series resurrects 1950s Czechoslovak Socialist Realist films

Filmy patří lidu (Films Belong to the People) is the title of a series of Socialist Realist pictures that have been released on DVD in the Czech Republic in recent months…
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DVD series resurrects 1950s Czechoslovak Socialist Realist films

Filmy patří lidu (Films Belong to the People) is the title of a series of Socialist Realist pictures that have been released on DVD in the Czech Republic in recent months…
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Musician Ondřej Pivec: Everything, and This Too, Will One Day Pass

At a time when concert halls have fallen silent, and society is struggling to deal with the coronavirus crisis, music is becoming even more important and many singers and…
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My Prague – Václav Havelka

Václav Havelka leads the guitar band Please the Trees, whose fourth LP Carp picked up the prestigious Apollo prize for Czech LP of 2015. The Krkonoše-raised singer and…
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Litomyšl – a small town with a big city feeling

Thinking of an interesting way to discover Czech culture beyond Prague, away from the traditional tourist hotspots? Litomyšl might be just the place for you. This small…
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Vladimír Hanzel: Part 1

Few people were as close to Václav Havel as his secretary of 14 years, Vladimír Hanzel. Originally a music critic and computer programmer, Hanzel was by Havel’s side in…
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New festival aims to generate interest in community theatre among Czech audiences and professionals

A new festival that has just got underway in Prague focuses on social outreach or community theatre, in which professionals engage in a hands-on way with the world around…
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Record number flock to Budapest for 12th Sziget Festival

The 12th Sziget Festival, most probably Europe's best known and biggest cultural event for the young attracted a record 369,000 visitors this year to that small island…
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Will Czech Culture Go Global?

As a Scot living in Prague, I am intrigued by the Czech passion for all things Celtic. On the metro I often see groups of young men decked out in idiosyncratic versions of…
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Re-discovering the lives of central Europe's Jews

Much is known about how Jews and opposers of the Nazi regime were driven out of Central and Eastern Europe - but what about the ones who remained or returned to - Austria…
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Giuseppe Maiello - passionate for a lost Slavonic past

For this week's One on One Jan Velinger talked to Giuseppe Maiello, a professor at Charles University's Department for Slavic and Eastern European studies. From Naples…
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Litomysl: Bedrich Smetana's home town

In the very east of Bohemia, where the region borders with Moravia, you'll find a picturesque town called Litomysl. It emerged in the 13th century from an older fortified…
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The Makropulos Case returns to Prague’s National Theatre

The opera Věc Makropulos by Czech composer Leoš Janáček, premiered at Prague’s National Theatre on Thursday in a co-production with the English National Opera. In this…
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Prague's Palace Gardens

If you are looking for a place to relax on a warm summer's day then there is no better place than the Palace Gardens located on the southern slopes of Prague Castle. With…
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Looking at Czech society with both eyes open

Czech history features many brave, pioneering women, such as the author Božena Němcová (1820-1862) or the politician Milada Horáková (1901-1950). But Czech society today…
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John Bok - former dissident still driven by anti-establishment zeal

John Bok must have one of the strangest CVs in history: anti-Communist activist, theatre producer, senior ministry official, radio journalist and night club toilet…
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Prague kicks off landmark "season" celebrating Mozart's life and work

2006 is "The Year of Mozart". The composer was born 250 years ago, and numerous concerts, festivals, exhibitions and celebrations are due to kick-off around Europe, most…
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News

Police disperse illegal techno party Police have ordered techno music enthusiasts blocking a part of the D5 motorway in west Bohemia to leave, preventing the CzechTech…
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Prague kicks off landmark season celebrating Mozart's life and work

2006 is "The Year of Mozart". The composer was born 250 years ago, and numerous concerts, festivals, exhibitions and celebrations are due to kick-off around Europe, most…
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Czech ambassador to Canada on energy security and the country's Volhynian Czechs

We caught up with Czech Ambassador to Canada Bořek Lizec to talk about the search for Russian energy alternatives, as well as about his encounters with Volhynian Czechs.
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Ondrej Havelka - keeping 1920s jazz popular in the Czech Republic

The Czech singer Ondrej Havelka and his group the Melody Makers do faithful and charming versions of jazz and popular songs from the 1920s and 30s. They are currently…
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Arts news, Exhibition on Czech Musicians

In this week's Arts, Dita Asiedu looks at some of the developments on the Czech cultural scene and talks to a Foreign Ministry representative about a travelling exhibition…
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Mailbox

Today in Mailbox we reveal the identity of November’s mystery man and announce the names of the four winners who will receive Radio Prague souvenirs for their correct…
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Prague may put Czech noble, Austrian marshal Josef Radecký back on a pedestal

Prague looks set to return a statue of nobleman Josef Václav Radecký of Radče – arguably the greatest Czech military commander in history – to the Lesser Town square.
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