Society
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Summertime approaches “the land that vegetables forgot”
Spring has come to “the land that vegetables forgot” as Anthony Bourdain recently dubbed the Czech Republic in a Prague episode of “No Reservations.” Trust me, my best…
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Mailbox
This week in Mailbox: New frequency schedule, 2010 QSL cards, the biggest opera hall in the Czech Republic, a listener’s comment concerning our monthly quizzes. Listeners…
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Magazine
Czech weather forecasters at each other’s throats over who does a better job of telling the weather. A driver is caught breastfeeding on the road. And the Saint Tropez…
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Právo: former ‘People’s Prosecutor’ could be released as early as next year
The Czech daily Právo reported this week that a former Communist prosecutor sent to prison for her role in the judicial murder of democratic politician Milada Horáková in…
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Czech Catholic Church enters debate on sex abuse scandals
The Czech Roman Catholic Church recently joined an on-going debate about sexual abuse of minors by priests. Several church officials, including both the outgoing and the…
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Prince Charles visits revolutionary ‘eco-friendly’ village in Moravia
Britain’s Prince Charles spent a day in Moravia on Monday, and paid a visit to the country’s first ‘eco-friendly’ village - Hostětín, in the White Carpathian mountains…
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Best English teachers receive awards at Prague ceremony
Good English teachers are in great demand in the Czech Republic. While more and more children want to learn the language, schools are facing a serious lack of qualified…
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After the thaw
The forecasters have been promising us temperatures of up to 16 degrees Celsius this coming week, and Czech papers and websites have been full of stories about the long…
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Mailbox
In this week’s Mailbox: a new arrival at the Prague Zoo, the “Key Statue”, the largest painting in the Czech Republic. Listeners quoted: Steven Bell, Lynda-Marie Hauptmann…
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Magazine
In Magazine: Motorcyclists conquer the 'globe of death', a stunt not tried in 31 years; a lumberjack makes a curious find of World War II binoculars embedded in a tree…
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New Czech gay-friendly holiday brochure only third on European market
Traveling has just become a lot more convenient for Czech gays and lesbians. A new holiday brochure provides an alternative to lengthy internet research to find a place to…
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Rwanda’s post-genocide community courts focus of One World film My Neighbor, My Killer
My Neighbor, My Killer, which is being screened at the One World festival of human rights documentaries in Prague, focuses on local tribunals called Gacaca set up…
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