Historian Vít Smetana on President Edvard Beneš' exile government in London
Easter egg trees are a popular Central European tradition and the town of Pardubice has one to make the locals proud this year.
In the English-speaking world, we know the days leading up to Easter as Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, and Holy Saturday. But the Czech names are pretty different.
Several years ago, the Barefoot Carmelite Sisters left Prague’s Hradčany Square and got to work to turn a derelict farmhouse on the periphery into their new home.
Broadcast in English - 03/29/2024
News; Czechs bust Russian network paying off European politicians; Prague 1 tries to curb depopulation problem; new exhibition gives fresh take on Czechoslovak interwar art
An exhibition called New Realisms in Prague City Gallery offers a fresh perspective on visual art in interwar Czechoslovakia between. We speak to curator Ivo Habán.
Broadcast in English - 03/28/2024
The Municipal District of Prague 1 recently launched an initiative to help residents of the area deal with common problems.
The Czech secret service has scored a major success, uncovering a Russian network attempting to influence elections, and paying off politicians, in various EU states.
News; Fears of AI-driven disinformation in campaigning to European elections; Prague housing crisis impacting more people; The 1969 Czechoslovak ice hockey riots
A recent study that analyses the housing situation in Prague revealed that the country’s real estate market is the least affordable in Europe.
AI is influencing many areas of life and there is no doubt that it will play a role in campaigning in the European elections. Are Czech voters aware of the pitfalls?
How well do you know the Hradec Králové Region? Test your knowledge of the Hradec Králové Region with our quiz!
On March 28, 1969 a Czechoslovak ice hockey win over the USSR – less than a year after the Soviet invasion – sparked celebrations that became riots in Prague and elsewhere.
The Hradec Králové Region ranges from the Giant Mountains to the lowlands around the Elbe. Check out its landmarks in our photo gallery!
News; Amanita games wins prestigious prize in San Francisco; Czechs doing Erasmus reaches over 400,000; Heartcore
The Czech studio Amanita Design has won the award for Excellence in Visual Art at the prestigious San Francisco Independent Games Festival for their new game Phonopolis.
Over 400,000 Czechs have availed of the opportunity to take part in Erasmus, the EU’s academic exchange programme since Czechia signed up in the late 1990s.
News; Carpenters make replica of 7,000-year-old well; Prague chess players have their own café; Red tape: Rosamund Johnston digs into Czechoslovak Radio under communism
Experimental archaeologists are making a copy of a 7,000-year-old well, thought to be the oldest surviving man-made wooden object in the world, using prehistoric tools.
Red Tape: Radio and Politics in Czechoslovakia, 1945-1969 looks at broadcasting in, and to, the country between the end of the war and the aftermath of the 1968 invasion.
Prague is dotted with cafes, but, increasingly clients want more than just good coffee and so some Prague coffee houses are offering a special program to go with it.
More than 200 young people joined the traditional three-kilometer run through Prague's Stromovka park at the weekend and President Petr Pavel was among them.
On 26 March 1964, the Czechoslovak government decided to liquidate the old city of Most to make way for coal mines and apartments to house the miners who would work there.
