Society
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Tea rooms: a modern Czech phenomenon
Take some new age music, mix it with Turkish rugs, Moroccan tiles and Chinese lanterns and finally, add some tea - what you get is a typical Czech cajovna or tearoom, a…
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Masaryk's car, preserved against all odds, goes on show in Vienna
A large black 12-cylinder Tatra T 80 from early 1930s that was once the personal car of first Czechoslovak president Tomas Garrigue Masaryk was hidden under a pile of…
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Building up Letna Plain
Letna Plain is one of the last open spaces in central Prague. Overlooking the Vltava River and located only some 1500 metres from Prague Castle, it was a strategic…
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Plans to bring persecutors of wealthy farmers to justice
During the enforced nationalisation of the hard-line 1950s, one class who came in for particular persecution were the 'kulaks' or wealthier, propertied farmers. As part of…
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Michal Prochazka - lightening Kundera's unbearable burden of history
Last week the best-known living Czech author, Milan Kundera, was awarded the State Prize for Literature. The award sparked plenty of debate about the 78-year-old writer…
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At the sign of a Czech Jack O'Lantern
Since the 1990s a number of imported holidays - like St Valentine's or St Patrick's - have made something of an inroad in Prague and perhaps other Czech cities, not least…
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Mailbox
Today in Mailbox: the planned new national library building in Prague, Radio Prague shortwave frequencies. Listeners quoted: Christine Takaguchi-Coates, Odette Parsons…
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Memories of a Czech asylum seeker in Britain
In this edition of Czech Books we introduce a completely new piece of Czech writing. A couple of years ago in this programme we featured the Romany writer Ilona Ferkova…
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Magazine
Czech doctors have operated on the tallest man in the Czech Republic to make him stop growing, an eighteen-month-old baby crashes the family car and what is making Czechs…
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New Radio Prague feature unearths Czech Radio gems
Starting next Thursday, our colleague David Vaughan will be introducing new series entitled From the Archives. As the name suggest he'll be dusting off some of the many…
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Team of experts to decide on new National Library building
The ongoing controversy over a planned new National Library building in Prague has come to something of a head; the conflicting sides have agreed that an expert team…
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International trains will halt for an hour as clocks go back
On Sunday at 3 o'clock in the morning, clocks will go back in the Czech Republic as well as in the rest of Europe, as it is the end of this year's daylight saving period…
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