Society
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Tracing my family tree
The topic of my Letter from Prague today has appeared in a number of our programmes over the last weeks. It is genealogy and tracing one's roots. By sheer coincidence that…
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Czech New Year's table
Welcome to the last episode of the culinary series of the ABC of Czech. Having explored the Czech Christmas table last week, today we'll close the series with a look at…
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Magazine
He's no diplomat but he has survived nine foreign ministers: meet the Czech Foreign Ministry's 50 year old mascot Pepik. Corruption is a serious problem, but it's giving…
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Czech gay porn biz said to employ high number of heterosexual men
Trim, tanned, and well-proportioned where it counts: those are some of the pre-requisites for making it in the gay porn business in the Czech Republic, which enjoyed a…
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Breathing new life into Terezin
The entire garrison town of Terezin served as a ghetto for Czech and European Jews during the Second World War and housed a Gestapo-run prison. Tens of thousands died…
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Czech Service to be axed as BBC launches Arab-language TV station
Presenters on the BBC Czech Service had the unenviable task of announcing their own demise this morning. The BBC World Service is about to introduce sweeping changes to…
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Court rules St Vitus' Cathedral belongs to Catholic Church
If you think of Prague, one of the first things that springs to mind is the magnificent 14th century Saint Vitus' Cathedral, towering above the city's skyline. But who…
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Food inspections uncover horrific practices at supermarket chains
When food inspectors uncovered horrific practices at a supermarket several weeks ago Czech consumers recoiled in horror at what they saw and heard - rotten meat being…
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Conference on "intelligent design" meets with little interest among Czech scientists
Is life on Earth a product of "blind evolution" or is the world as we know it the work of an omnipotent creator? Hundreds of supporters of the theory of "intelligent…
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Zora Cejnkova - TV producer incognito in Cuba
This week in One on One Rob Cameron speaks to TV producer Zora Cejnkova, who's just returned from Cuba where she was forced to work undercover after being refused filming…
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My address? The town hall.
Some houses have a very mixed bunch of inhabitants - but none more so than Czech town halls. Many of them are home to a vast number of people who want to stay invisible.
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Can nationalism in Central Europe be a force for good?
This week Czech Books comes from the Irish capital, Dublin. We talk to Dr Stefan Auer, a lecturer in European politics and society at the Dublin European Institute at…
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