Society
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Český Dub in the Middle Ages
For this week’s Czechs in History I’ve brought you somewhere rather special – one of my favourite places in the Czech Republic – Český Dub. And I’m sitting here at about…
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Czech butcher takes prize for world’s best sausage
A Czech butcher has won an award for producing the world’s best klobása, a kind of traditional sausage. Václav Klátil, who runs a family business in a town called Pacov in…
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Iconic Czech tank returns to the country after more than half a century
One of the finest pieces of military technology that this country has ever developed is finally being returned to the Czech Republic, after an absence of over sixty years…
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The Ghost of Munich to be made into film by Miloš Forman
The launch has just taken place in Prague of the Czech version of a novel looking at the Munich Agreement of 1938, when the UK and France gave the Nazis free reign to…
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Reporter Tomáš Etlzer becomes first Czech to win Emmy
Television reporter Tomáš Etzler has become the first Czech ever to win America’s most prestigious TV award, the Emmy. Etzler was part of a team which won the 2008…
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The unhealthy relationship between big pharmaceuticals and small doctors
Czech law is structured in such a way that non-prescription drugs can be freely advertised, while prescription drugs cannot. This has led to a totally unregulated culture…
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New Jewish study centre, dedicated to rabbi Loew, opens in Prague
The Maharal Institute, a new Jewish studies centre dedicated to the 16th century rabbi, philosopher and scholar Yehuda Loew, opened in Prague on Thursday. Founded by the…
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Mailbox
Today in Mailbox: South Bohemian carp, the pronunciation of the name of the Czech-American sculptor Albín Polášek, the Czech animation artist Jiří Trnka. Listeners quoted…
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Dieting with a gorilla
Many Czechs are fed up with the corruption scandals that constantly fill the evening news and morning papers and look elsewhere for diversion. And, as always, Prague’s zoo…
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Magazine
A former minister walks the entire stretch of a highway after losing a bet it would be completed on time, Czechs poke fun of the government’s sugar cube campaign ahead of…
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Flood-damaged US Czech and Slovak museum receives millions in aid from Czech government
Disaster struck the National Czech and Slovak Museum and Library in the US state of Iowa in June, when extreme flooding submerged the museum building. The damage caused to…
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Free Emil Kučera: protesters demand release of Czech entomologist jailed in India
Around 100 people gathered on Thursday outside Indian embassies in the Czech Republic, Austria and Canada to protest the imprisonment of Emil Kučera, a Czech entomologist…
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