This week’s Sunday Music show is devoted to pop singer Aneta Langerová, the winner of the first ever Czech Pop Idol contest, who is celebrating 20 years on stage.
Broadcast in English - 03/24/2024
Miroslav Srnka on episode three of the Faces of Czech Music podcast
Arguably one of the most internationally renowned contemporary Czech composers, Miroslav Srnka has wowed audiences across the globe with his original and innovative operas.
News, renovated Maj department store to reopen soon, 60 years since Škoda 1000 MB was unveiled, Ukrainian refugees in Czechia.
The re-opening of Prague's Máj department store has sparked controversy, when it emerged that the façade of the building will be adorned with two giant butterflies.
The new Škoda 1000 MB was unveiled in Mladá Boleslav in March 1964. Designed to be an affordable family car, it was Czechoslovakia’s answer to the Ford Model T.
Brian Goodman has spent the past two decades immersed in a project that bridges American and Czech literary worlds, delving into the shadows of the Cold War.
News; 30 years of People In Need: a grassroots story; Czech glassmakers make medals for the Ice Hockey World Championships; interview with Peter Zusi
It has been 30 years since People in Need, one of Czechia’s most well-known NGOs providing humanitarian relief to crisis-affected regions the world over, adopted its name.
Organizers of the upcoming 2024 Ice Hockey World Championship have unveiled the medals that will be awarded to the winning teams, produced by glassmakers from Nový Bor.
News; Czech government and opposition clash over “pacifist” language on Ukraine; New exhibition at Prague's CAMP; Hradec Králové: city where history meets modernity
A new exhibition titled ‘Planet Prague’ opens on Wednesday at the Centre for Architecture and Metropolitan Planning in Prague.
Hradec Králové, which lies on the confluence of the Labe and Orlice rivers in north-east Bohemia, is one of the oldest and historically most significant Czech cities.
The ruling coalition has accused opposition leader Andrej Babiš of putting the country's security at risk with his “pacifist” stance on the war in Ukraine.
News; New Havel doc gets special Prague Castle screening; Exchange programs on the rise in Czechia; New game aims to make Kafka’s work more accessible to young people
Erasmus mobility programs have become increasingly popular for both Czechs who want to go abroad, and foreigners who wish to move to Czechia.
To mark the centenary of Franza Kafka's death, Charles Games studio along with Prague’s Goethe Institute developed a 3D game set in the world of Kafka’s novels.
The current Czech president and his Slovak counterpart were in the audience for a special screening of a new film about Václav Havel at Prague Castle on Monday night.
News; Russians in Prague join “Noon against Putin” protests at home; Head of National Library on urgency to preserve Ukrainian cultural artefacts
The National Library of the Czech Republic is working on a project that will provide mobile units to Ukraine to help preserve cultural artefacts endangered by the war.
The Brno Zoo organized a spring welcoming event a few days early at the weekend, with a special program that included feeding the animals.
Russian nationals in Prague gathered on Wenceslas Square on Sunday in a symbolic show of support for the “Noon against Putin” protests at home.
The Bartered Bride, a comic opera by Bedřich Smetana, is a cornerstone of the Czech opera repertoire.
Duuring the years of the First Republic, Czechs were accustomed to driving on the left. That changed with the Nazi occupation in 1939.
