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In today's Mailbox: One more response to Radio Prague's interview with a US war veteran from Iraq, the "Hunger Wall" in Prague, a song for George W. Bush, and the Czech…
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Town Hall files complaint in effort to stop far-right march through Jewish Quarter Prague Town Hall has filed a complaint against a decision by a Prague court to overturn…
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Military Intelligence service to confirm Russian radar influence The Czech Military Intelligence Service is to confirm reports by its sister agency BIS (the Czech…
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Mailbox

This week in Mailbox we read from your answers to Radio Prague's November competition question and we announce the name of the winner. You will also find out the new…
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Magazine

In Magazine: To shave or not to shave? Firefighters lobby against the no-beards rule. Wine-makers in Moravia celebrate the ancient tradition of young girls crushing grapes…
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Arts

In this week's edition you can learn who won the best literary translation award this year and why the prize is awarded around the end of September. Also, the famous…
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Mailbox

In Mailbox this week: response to Radio Prague’s special 85th anniversary broadcast; a new TV ad trying to lure tourists to Prague. Listeners quoted: Aloisie Krasny, Brian…
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Mailbox

This week in Mailbox: Interference with other stations, the tallest building in the Czech Republic, the announcement of the winner of January's competition. Listeners…
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Celebrities protest Pilsen’s Days of Jerusalem Festival

A group of world public figures, including US linguist Noam Chomsky and British film director Ken Loach, are publicly protesting against the Days of Jerusalem Festival…
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Poetry from the Twilight Zone: writing from North Bohemia

The impossibly named Mnohacek Zgublacenko writes sung poems. He is one of the writers featured in a brand new anthology of Czech literature. This is a fantastic book of…
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Reviving the Jewish community of Kraków

As few as 20 thousand people, the remnants of the pre-war 3 million Jewish population, live in Poland today - including the tiny community in southern city of Kraków. They…
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Press Review

The face of Jesus Christ looks out from the front pages of all Czech papers today - or at least "the closest image yet produced with the aid of computer graphics" by the…
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News

President Klaus to stay at controversial 'Benes' hotel in Cesky Krumlov Czech President Vaclav Klaus is due to spend two nights as a guest in the Hotel Ruze in order to…
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Girolamo Giormani - fighting for the rights of Czech property owners

In this week's One on One, Rob Cameron speaks to Italian property owner Girolamo Giormani, who owns half a dozen apartment buildings in Prague's elegant Vinohrady district…
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The Four Corners of the Czech Republic, Pt. II: The Sudetenland

On the one hand, defining one’s territory is said to be a basic human trait, and on the other there is nothing that comes so natural to people - when given a say - as to…
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The Four Corners of the Czech Republic, Pt. II: The Sudetenland

On the one hand, marking off one’s territory is said to be a basic human trait, and on the other, there is nothing that comes so naturally to people as defying a boundary…
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Newts! New audio drama inspired by Karel Čapek’s famous science fiction novel

This week, a new ‘surf-rock audio drama’, inspired by Čapek’s pioneering science fiction novel, premiered in the United States, featuring some well-known Broadway actors.
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Communist scholar Zdeněk Nejedlý subject of award-winning biography

Zdeněk Nejedlý was an influential Czech musicologist and Communist politician. Most often remembered as a passionate admirer of the composer Bedřich Smetana, he was also…
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Mailbox

In this week's edition of Mailbox: the winner and runner-ups in this year's Listener's Competition, which asked listeners to write who they thought was historically the…
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Martin Machovec: exploring the rich literary world of the Czech underground

This week we visit Martin Machovec in his book-filled flat. Martin Machovec is a well-known literary critic, translator, editor and expert on the Czech underground scene…
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From the Weeklies

Never has a foreign top league football club paid so much for a Czech player - Tomas Rosicky of Sparta Prague is worth 25 million DM! The income of most Czech football…
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Thomas M. Messer – former Guggenheim director, 88, recalls youth in Czechoslovakia, and much more

Thomas M. Messer was born in Bratislava in 1919 but moved to Prague at the age of four, when his father got a job teaching German Studies at Charles University. After…
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Victims of 1968 Soviet-led invasion remembered at Prague ceremony A ceremony was held at the Czech Radio building in Prague on Saturday honouring the victims of the…
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Czech National Bank lowers interest rates by 0.75 percentage points The Czech National Bank has surprised analysts by lowering the benchmark interest rate by three…
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Czech soldiers injured in Afghanistan to return to Czech Republic Four Czech soldiers who were injured in a bomb attack in Afghanistan this week are expected to return to…
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