Society
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Brit boyfriends filling Czech classes at London Czech Centre, says director
The Czech Centre on London's Harley Street is quite atypical in that you have to ring a bell to get in and it doesn't have the space for exhibitions, film screenings and…
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Czech cell phone mania
Czech magazines and music channels are full of them - ads for the latest and funniest ring tunes and logos for mobile phones. And Czechs are mobile mad - there are 115…
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Jan Gregor - reporter for a London-based magazine for Czechs and Slovaks
Jan Gregor is a reporter for Echo, a magazine for Czechs and Slovaks living in the UK and Ireland. Jan, who comes from the Slovak city of Banska Bystrice, is himself one…
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Hedy Fromings - part 2
Hedy Fromings was born Hedvika Honigenova in 1926. In the late 1940s she left Czechoslovakia, moving to the UK - where she had spent the war years - with her English…
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Czech Republic comes fifth in Reporters Without Borders press freedom index
The international press freedom organisation Reporters Without Borders published their annual "Press Freedom Index" this week, after surveying the media in 168 countries…
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BIS reports mafia has fingers in Czech judicial system
Organized crime has an increasing number of contacts amongst the judiciary in this country - that's according to a new report released by the Czech counter-intelligence…
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Hedy Fromings - Part 1
Hedy Fromings is a retired architect in her late 70s, though she is still very much active as the head of the Beskydy Dancers, a Czech dance and music group in London…
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Communist councillors lose hold over north-eastern village for first time ever
The Velvet Revolution may have led to the fall of Communism in Czechoslovakia in 1989 but it was not until this weekend that the Communists lost their hold over a small…
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Reflecting on the events of October 1956 in Budapest
This week, Hungarians are commemorating the anniversary of their dramatic anti-Soviet uprising exactly 50 years ago. On October 23, 1956 a pro-democracy rally brought 200…
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Talking Back
You may well ask why I always manage to dwell on this country's unfortunate past - the Communist era. The reason is that even sixteen years on, it still shapes almost…
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Mailbox
This week in Mailbox: Radio Prague launches digital broadcasting, and we talk to a listener from New Zealand who came to visit us here in Prague. As usual, we repeat our…
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Magazine
Thieves get into the Prague Castle compound. Impressive micro-surgery: a man gets a big toe in place of a missing thumb. And, a bottle of rum may cost you 30,000 crowns…
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