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University educates new generations of Czech brewers

Many in the Czech Republic, which is home to the first pilsner, believe Czech beer is the best in the world. In the past, Czech brewers shared their expertise with the…
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Foreign minister Zaorálek attends special EU meeting on Iraq crisis Czech Minister of Foreign Affairs Lubomír Zaorálek is attending an extraordinary session of Foreign…
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Czech politicians call for change in wake of Brexit vote The politicians have reacted to Britains decision to leave the EU by emphasizing the need for change. Czech Prime…
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Today's topics include: Oil deposits in the CR, Charles University was founded 655 years ago, Prague's parks, Czechs on sick leave. Quotes from: John Miller, Maria…
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A seventy three year old granny from south Bohemia has won 20 million crowns in the lottery, a Czech town has introduced three dimensional zebra crossings to get drivers…
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Vote for best Christmas carol sent in by Czech expat communities abroad!

Czech expats the world over are taking part in a Best Christmas Carol competition. Give them your vote!
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A Prague poet “infinitely better known than Shakespeare”

In Czech Books this week we find out about the life and times of an English-born Renaissance poet who spent nearly all her life in Prague and in her time was more…
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African American poetry in Czechoslovakia, viewed through a Cold War prism

Dr Františka Schormová is developing her award-winning dissertation 'African American Poets Abroad: Black and Red Allegiances in Early Cold War Czechoslovakia' into a book.
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From 18 to 80: summer school in Poděbrady draws people with Czech heritage of all ages

For 30 years, the Summer Course for Expatriates has been bringing people with Czech ancestry from around the world to their ancestral home to get in touch with their roots.
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Bohdan Bláhovec – Sceptical Slammer and Pilsner Urquell

Welcome to Czech Books - and to Czech slam! Slam poetry first came into being in the United States in the 1980s and is basically a competition between performance poets…
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Czech film world focuses on traumatic life of Lída Baarová

Power, sex, and film world glamour, against the backdrop of the rise and fall of the Nazi regime. The story of Czechoslovak film actress, Lída Baarová, has it all. And it’…
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Kroměříž: a palace of bishops and filmmakers

There is a palace in Moravia like none other. You will find it in Kroměříž, not far from the banks of the Morava River. What used to be a summer representative residence…
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Lost and found in translation: writers discuss the complexities of literature across frontiers

Last month Prague hosted Bookworld, one of Europe’s major international book fairs. Writers from around the world, whose work covers a Babel of different languages…
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Post-WWII political leader Prokop Drtina subject of new biography

The 1948 communist takeover of Czechoslovakia remains a trauma for many Czechs today. Could the country’s fall under Soviet domination have been prevented? Why did…
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Growing Daisies: Second Run DVD helping “unknown” Czechoslovak films find new audiences

The UK's Second Run DVD recently celebrated 10 years of existence and 100 releases. About a quarter of the reissue company’s titles have been Czechoslovak films…
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Czech nobility under the spotlight in tv series

A series of eight programmes on public broadcaster Czech Television called Modrá Krev or Blue Blood is already around half way through. The series looks at the modern…
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US Sokol helped organisation survive through dark times in Czechoslovakia, says first female president Jean Hruby

The Sokol gymnastics organisation – motto: a sound mind in a sound body – became an important element in the Czech National Revival when it was founded in Prague in 1862…
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Czech Christmas traditions explained, from Ježíšek to the Golden Pig

Veselé Vánoce! A very Merry Christmas to you all from Radio Prague! In today’s special programme we explore how the holiday is traditionally celebrated here in the Czech…
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Schwarzenberg offers incoming Greek PM “condolences” Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg told the press on Monday that he would be keeping his fingers crossed for the…
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Czech and British PMs meet ahead of EU summit Czech Prime Minister Petr Nečas met with his British counterpart on Thursday in London to discuss a joint stance ahead of…
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A personal look at Otakar Machotka, a leader of the 1945 Prague Uprising

There is an old framed photograph in my parents' house, which I have known since childhood. In the foreground, you can see the back of the head of Edvard Benes, the second…
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Voters to decide if areas will remain – or break away – from Brno Voters from two peripheral municipalities in Brno - Přířenice and Dolní Heršpice – are deciding in a…
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Entropa just a piece of the entropy of Czech guerrilla art

The commotion in recent weeks over David Černý’s Entropa exhibit in Brussels has made the sculpture one of the hallmarks of the Czech EU presidency. While its opponents…
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Justice Rychetský: Klaus must either sign Lisbon or have it reviewed The Chief Justice of the Czech Constitutional Court, Pavel Rychetský, told Czech TV on Sunday that…
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Today in Mailbox: The Velorex expedition spotted in Arizona, another reaction to a proposed new Czech national anthem, Radio Prague reports on the anniversary of the…
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