Unlike the majority of the Westerners who moved to Prague in the early 1990s, Paul Dubsky was still in his teens at the time. He now has a fascinating new whiskey business.
Through the sound archives we tell the tragic story of Jan Palach, we look at his legacy, and trace the beginnings of the process that came to be known as “normalization”.
Part art gallery, part café and part community space, Prague 7's NGO DEI is closing this July. It's director, Loretta Lau, spoke to Kevin Loo about its purpose and future.
Václav Havel was born in 1936 into a family that the communists with their love of labels used to describe as "bourgeois-reactionary". There is certainly no denying that…
This summer, Rob Cameron and his former Radio Prague colleague Nick Carey – now of Chicago, Illinois - spent nineteen days travelling across the Czech Republic by train…
Czech human rights activist Lukáš Houdek talks about his work, which has taken him from excluded localities in the Czech Republic to Ghana or the Republic of South Africa.
One of the most acclaimed books to be published in the last couple of years is the Man Booker Prize shortlisted novel, The Glass Room, by the British writer, Simon Mawer…
The Czech Radio archives include many recordings from the time of World War II. They come from both sides: propaganda from within occupied Bohemia and Moravia aimed at…
Neela Winkelmann-Heyrovská never met her Nobel-prize winning grandfather. But she had to live with his legacy her whole life – which was both a blessing and a curse.
Martin Klíma, a student leader of Czechoslovakia’s Velvet Revolution, brought role-playing games to the country and has found global success with Warhorse Studios.
Once a sizeable organisation that stretched across many Western European countries, Czechoslovak Exile Scouting, was an important connection to home for many Czech émigrés.
The medieval vaulted cellars of the Shakespeare and Sons bookshop offered an atmospheric backdrop to the second of Radio Prague’s series of public discussions, organized…
