Broadcast in English - 04/14/2024
Guitarist David Dorůžka teamed up with flutist Robert Fischmann and drummer Martin Novák to record an album inspired by Jewish music, called Gilgul.
The fascinating career of great Czech movie director Miloš Forman; Second Run DVD, the UK firm helping keep classic Czechoslovak cinema alive and available.
The Czech state began to form around the 9th century AD. But what do we actually know about this period? And how can archaeology help us understand it?
The Mriya International Film Festival will take place in Prague on Saturday, screening films made by Ukrainian directors while raising funds for the country.
There were scenes of joy at Prague airport 20 years ago when three Czech journalists kidnapped in Iraq were reunited with their families. Vít Pohanka was one of them.
The Prague Zoo has announced the birth of a critically endangered western lowland gorilla cub. It is already the second baby gorilla cub born in the zoo this year.
Czech traveller Vojtěch Pechar aka Mullet on a Trip hitchiked across the United States from New York to San Francisco without spending a single dollar of his own.
News; No means no: Czech MPs vote to redefine rape as non-consensual sex; Expert: Adoption of antigypsyism definition a “significant move” for Czechia; In Kafka's footsteps
The Czech government has officially acknowledged the term antigypsyism with the aim of curbing discrimination towards Roma people in the country.
The Czech statute books are set for a big change. After a lower house debate on Wednesday rape will be defined as non-consensual sex, rather than the current forcible sex.
News; Study: Young Czechs are overwhelmingly “mild EU supporters”; Czechia active member of Three Seas Initiative; The story of surgeon Vlasta Kálalová Di Lotti
President Pavel travels to Vilnius Thursday for a summit of the Three Seas Initiative, uniting countries by the Baltic, Adriatic and Black seas. Why is Czechia involved?
Not only a female surgeon at a time when this was extremely uncommon, Vlasta Kálalová Di Lotti was also intrepid and pioneering, setting up a clinic in Iraq in the 1920s.
With European Parliament elections around the corner, Czechs are gearing up to head to the polls. But how do young Czechs feel about the EU and Czechia’s membership?
For years scientists have been warning us that increasing numbers of diseases are developing antibiotic resistance. Bacteriocins might just provide the solution.
News; Cutting-edge technology to protect Prague’s Charles Bridge tower; Brno scientists investigate bacteriocins as alternative to antiobiotics
Conservationists have applied a special protective paint on one of the Gothic towers on Charles Bridge, which can decompose algae and mosses with the help of light alone.
News; Czech govt. “not very happy” over Pellegrini win in Slovakia; tropical weather arrives in Czechia – but what’s the climate impact?; Karlovy Vary Imperial Spa
Czechia had its first bout of tropical weather, with temperatures reaching 30 degrees Celsius, indicative of a larger problem being experienced globally – climate change.
Presidential elections in Slovakia were also watched in Czechia. Czech leaders have congratulated winner Pellegrini, but what do they really think about his victory?
Unusually high temperatures have been leading Czechs to spend their free time by the water. Pictured are girls on a pedal boat near Prague’s Charles Bridge.
On April 9, 1624 Ferdinand II issued a patent allowing only the Catholic religion in Bohemia.
Broadcast in English - 04/07/2024
The 33rd annual Anděl Awards were handed out last week at a ceremony in Prague’s O2 Universum. In today’s Sunday Music Show we’ll listen to some of the winners.
