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Svitavy – the birthplace of Oskar Schindler

You are not very likely to wander into Svitavy by chance. Located on both the major road and railway line connecting Moravia and eastern Bohemia, for most people Svitavy…
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Most Czechs wish to die at home but end up in institutions

The start of November is traditionally connected with All Saints Day or Dušičky. Over the past week, Czechs have been visiting cemeteries to light candles and lay flowers…
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News Friday, SEPTEMBER 04th, 1998

Radio Prague e-news Date: 4.9.1998 Written/read by: David Vaughan Hello and a warm welcome to the programme. I'm David Vaughan. First the headlines. And now the news in…
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Wintering in Bohemia: thousands of Bohemian waxwings have descended on the Czech Republic. The adrenalin road race Gumbell 3000 will pass through Prague this year. And the…
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Andrew Pitts - master craftsman making double basses in the heart of Prague

My guest this week is Andrew Pitts, an American double bass maker living and working in Prague. A native of Los Angeles, Andrew has lived in the Czech Republic for eleven…
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The City of Ostrava

Hello and thanks for tuning in to another edition of Spotlight, today on the North Moravian city of Ostrava, which is the third largest in the Czech Republic.I am…
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How big is the biggest baby ever born in the Czech Republic? Where can you enjoy an international train ride that lasts just 24 seconds and why have the locals on the…
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“Heaven, distance, light and dazzling brightness”: Czech literary links with Scandinavia

Did you know that one of Norway’s popular writers is actually Czech, or that in the mid 1930s Karel Čapek fell in love with the forests and skies of Scandinavia? And do…
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Andrej Gina: recalling the poetry and poverty of the old Romany settlements

In today's Czech Books we meet a writer who is a master of the short story. Andrej Gina, who won the Open Society Institute's Roma Literary Award in 2003, lives in the…
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“Heaven, distance, light and dazzling brightness”: Czech literary links with Scandinavia

Did you know that one of Norway’s popular writers is actually Czech, or that in the mid 1930s Karel Čapek fell in love with the forests and skies of Scandinavia? And do…
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Andrej Gina: recalling the poetry and poverty of the old Romany settlements

In today's Czech Books we meet a writer who is a master of the short story. Andrej Gina, who won the Open Society Institute's Roma Literary Award in 2003, lives in the…
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Czech Statehood Day: A look at the symbols of the nation

In a special programme to mark Czech Statehood Day, I am joined in the studio by Ondřej Matějka, who is the Deputy Director of the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian…
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My Prague – Iva Skochová

Iva Skochová has a travel column in the newspaper Lidové Noviny and is also preparing a book about crashing weddings in nearly two dozen countries around the world. But…
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Beetles, gravediggers and a familiar face from Radio Prague

Radio Prague’s literary connections go back over seventy years, starting even before the Second World War. Well known writers like Arnošt Lustig, Lenka Reinerová or…
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A man in snorkeling gear stops traffic on Prague’s Wenceslas Square. What do you do when you have one motorbike and a six-member family? And, sculptor David Černý gives…
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International project aims to show popularising science is “money well spent”

One of the events showcased during this year’s open week at the Czech Academy of Science’s was a contest where young scientists pitted their presenting skills against each…
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In today's edition: Radio Prague foreign language transmissions, the winner of November's competition. Listeners quoted: Wilson Cavalcanti, Brazil; Gina Cenkl, United…
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“The two stories made it possible”: Petr Sís discusses Nicky & Vera

Nicky & Vera by Petr Sís is based on the stories of Sir Nicholas Winton and Vera Gissing, one of the children the Briton managed to save from Prague in 1939.
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High-flyer Jakub Hlávka: I don’t get bored easily – I get fascinated by things

US-based Czech academic Jakub Hlávka is an expert on health policy, working on projects focused on the Covid pandemic as well as studying the treatment of Alzheimer’s.
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Pavel Strnad: Czech directors could benefit from looking outward more

Pavel Strnad is a top Czech film producer. The company he co-founded in the mid-1990s, Negativ Film, has been behind many important Czech titles since then.
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‘Velvet Retro’: historian Veronika Pehe on Czech pop culture, (anti)heroes, collective memory and post-communist nostalgia – for resistance

Popular films, TV series and novels can profoundly shape a nation’s collective memory and cement the evolving historical master narrative. In her new book, ‘Velvet Retro…
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A poetic guidebook to Prague

What does Allen Ginsberg have in common with the great Chilean poet, Pablo Neruda, Turkey’s Nazim Hikmet, and the Czech Nobel Prize winner, Jaroslav Seifert? The answer…
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Czech literary treasures in London

Not many of the thousands of passengers arriving every day at London’s busy St Pancras Station are aware that they are passing just a few dozen metres away from one of the…
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India’s ambassador to the Czech Republic: We appreciate your commitment to Mahatma’s ideals

The past two years have seen a revitalization in Czech-Indian ties, with intensified cooperation in the academic and business spheres as well as people to people contacts…
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Czech Film Commissioner Pavlína Žipková on the friendly ‘subsidy war’ to lure in foreign film and TV productions

Behind the scenes, a ‘subsidy war’ is raging in Central Europe among national film commissions, which have been steadily sweetening rebates and incentives to attract…
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