Society
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Czech - wanted by authorities in connection with shocking abuse case -surfaces in Norway
Barbora Škrlová, a 33-year old woman wanted by Czech authorities in connection with a brutal case of child-abuse in this country last year, has been extradited to the…
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How have Czechs taken to the audiobook?
The audiobook is enjoying record popularity around Europe at the moment - sales are thought to be rising by 15% on average each year. The growth of the medium might be…
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New exhibition celebrates advances made by Czech homosexual minority in recent decades
An exhibition celebrating the history of the gay and lesbian movement in the Czech Republic has just opened here in Prague. It is mostly focused on gay culture in the last…
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Jiří Stanislav – an actor turned politician
In this week's One on One, our guest is Jiří Stanislav, a politician and actor who spent half of his life abroad in Canada and the UK. Most recently he appeared in the…
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Change of fortune lands homeless man in psychiatric clinic
It was a story that sells papers – a homeless man finds an abandoned baby boy in a garbage can and saves his life. Miroslav Szamseli, a man who’d been homeless for 15…
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Europe’s narrow escape from “Czechoslovak Chernobyl”
April 26th, 1986, is a day that will live in infamy. When Reactor Number Four at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant exploded, the resulting fire left a cloud of radiation…
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The secrets of the Czech complexion
I never understand how it is that Czech girls can look so good at this time of year. We are in the depths of the bleak midwinter, and most normal people are looking flaky…
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Mailbox
Today in Mailbox we reveal the identity of our December mystery Czech and announce the names of the four lucky winners. We also have a brand new quiz question for you…
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Magazine
Close to two thousand people jumped aboard this year’s sci-fi train to celebrate the last hours of 2007, a small aircraft took off without the pilot and –“ sorry, boss it’…
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Greats of US punk music interviewed in book by Czech music journalist Alex Švamberk
The Czech music journalist Alex Švamberk is the author of a book on American punk and hardcore music entitled Nenech se zas oblbnout, which translates as Won’t Get Fooled…
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Explosive prank could spell prison for members of artistic group
Last June, a group of artists called Ztohoven hijacked a Czech Television programme to broadcast images of a nuclear bomb going off on a peaceful Czech hillside. The mock…
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Czech scrap metal thieves get Darwin Award
The Darwin Awards are given for astoundingly stupid judgement leading to self destruction. Named in honour of Charles Darwin, the father of evolution, the awards…
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