"Relationships created over hundreds of years can't be easily destroyed - relationships to those complicated yet ordinary things: wood, soil, the landscape. The unique…
It's a hundred years since the premiere of one of the great Czech operas, "Jenufa", by Leos Janacek. The centenary was marked in style last month with an international…
The Convoy of Liberty drove through the west Bohemian city of Plzeň on Sunday commemorating the end of World War II and the city’s liberation by the US Army in May 1945.
The Minorite Monastery of St. James in Prague has at last opened to the public. It now offers the largest outdoor escape game in Czechia, playable via WhatsApp chat.
Tens of bands and dozens of djs performed around Prague on Thursday evening to open this year’s United Islands Festival. The event, which is in its fifth year, is…
Prague's Jewish Museum recently released a CD that is nothing short of miraculous. At the height of the Nazi occupation of Prague during the Second World War, the Czech…
Friday, April 8, is International Romani Day, celebrating Roma culture and raising awareness about Roma issues. This week, organisers behind the Sobě blíž (Closer Together…
This Tuesday evening will see Czech girl band Vesna represent their country at the Eurovision Song Contest semi-finals in Liverpool.
An exhibition dedicated to Czech composer Bedřich Smetana and his most famous piece My Country has got underway at Prague’s National Museum.
Medieval history buffs know the story of the occupation of Bohemia by the Brandenburgs after King Ottokar II's death. Few know the tale of the outlaw Oldřich of Sukořín.
Organized by the International Dvorak Society, the American Spring music festival (April 8th to July 4th) annually brings internationally renowned soloists and music…
Metronome, Prague’s biggest music festival, will bring the likes of Liam Gallagher and Kraftwerk to the Výstaviště exhibition grounds for its fourth edition on June 21 and…
The annual Smetana Litomyšl, the second oldest music festival in Czechia and the country's largest classical music festival outside of Prague, gets underway on Saturday.
When the "Year of Czech Music" was launched in January, the jazz flute player, Jiri Stivin, complained that this year's celebrations were focusing far too much on…
Nearly fifteen thousand songs from all regions of Bohemia, Moravia, and Silesia are now freely available through a new online library called Písňovna.cz.
Sullivan Fortner is an immensely talented pianist who has been getting plenty of attention on the jazz scene with numerous live performances and with his successful debut…
Radio Prague International marks 90 years of international broadcasting with a new series of QSL cards, iconic visual artefacts tied to the tradition of shortwave radio.
This Czechast special revisits a Radio Prague International report about the Czechoslovak Legionnaires — and the personal story of one who never made it home.
The Prague City Museum is once again bridging tradition with contemporary audiovisual art -this time by recalling the nearly forgotten craft of timber rafting.
High above Prague 6, Hanspaulka is a villa district full of atmosphere, famous residents and views — explored in Prague off the Beaten Track.
Writer and artist Martina Skála has had an unusually broad range of jobs, from coaching the female leads on The Unbearable Lightness of Being to dancing with horses.
Recently opened in Malá Strana, the Mozart Interactive Museum offers visitors a unique experience. Danny Bate took a tour with its director, Eva Velická.
Czechia loves Advent and Christmas, yet remains one of Europe’s least church-going nations. A new Czechast episode asks religion editor Adam Šindelář why.
Coilin O'Connor's guest for One on One this week is Marek Eben. Although Mr Eben is well respected as an actor and musician, he is perhaps best known in the Czech Republic…
This week we talk with the Czech musicologist Jiri Strelec about Dvorak's much-loved opera, Rusalka. The opera is about a water-nymph, who, through a witch's magic spell…
