Society
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Mailbox
This week in Mailbox: We reveal the identity of February’s mystery man and announce the names of the four winners. Listeners quoted: Hans Verner Lollike, Juan Carlos Gil…
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Magazine
In this week’s Magazine: activists demonstrate in support of direct presidential elections; Tesco decides to rename its Czech department stores; the Czech Republic sees a…
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Catholic Church loses St Vitus case but vows to fight on
It’s instantly recognisable on Prague’s horizon, and has been subject to legal battles for several years. St Vitus Cathedral, the gothic masterpiece that towers over…
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Head of doctors’ association under fire over comments on female physicians
Many in the Czech medical profession were unpleasantly surprised by recent comments by the head of the Czech doctors’ association Milan Kubek. Speaking before a…
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Should the Czech Republic stop surgically castrating sex offenders?
The Czech Republic has recently been criticized by the Council of Europe for surgically castrating sex offenders. Last year, the European Committee for the Prevention of…
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Mailbox
Today in Mailbox: Czech Radio’s Regina building and the City Tower on Pankrác Plain, a comment on president Václav Klaus’s speech in the European Parliament, a request for…
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A lament for the disappearing bazar
I will make a proud confession: I hate shopping. There is one exception, however, and that is the bazar. Not the small outlets offloading stolen mobile phones and bicycles…
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Magazine
Czechs are feeling the credit crunch but fortune-tellers say their business is booming! A woman gives birth on the D-five highway in minus ten degree temperatures, and why…
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Czech company computer hitch hits the world
Astonishing as it might seem, a small Czech company is red-faced after causing an international Internet collapse in an incident which has underlined the World Wide Web’s…
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Chomutov benefit seizures provokes new row over Romany integration
The city of Chomutov in North Bohemia is under fire over a controversial new method of reclaiming debts owed by low-income families – sending bailiffs to recover the money…
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Prague’s Industrial Palace and Exhibition Grounds
In today’s Spotlight we look at the history of Výstaviště - Prague’s Exhibition Grounds founded in the late 19th century but used to this day for fairs, exhibitions…
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Czech and German preschoolers reach across borders
There are many ways to bring people together, but perhaps the most expedient is when children of different countries can learn each other’s language and culture from an…
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