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To drink or not to drink? And if so, from what kind of glass? The man whom
Czech Prime Miniater Vladimir Spidla made rich. And, what are the
advantages of being a chimneysweep in the Czech Republic? Find out more in
this week's edition of Magazine with Daniela Lazarova.
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Our ancestors certainly knew how to enjoy life: in 1610 Emperor Rudolf II
held an ice-skating ball on the Vltava river. What people make the best
angels? And -the man who played dead for six years in order to avoid
paying alimony. Find out more in this week's Magazine with Daniela
Lazarova.
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WitnessJaroslav Rudis and a question of teeth
If you listened to Czech Books on Sunday, you'll know that the popular
young Czech writer Jaroslav Rudis is something an eccentric - with an
inexhaustible passion for trains. But, in a country where beer-drinking is
a profound cultural phenomenon, Jaroslav - like so many Czech writers
before him - also finds inspiration in the pub, engaging with the various
characters that prop up the bar. For Witness today, Jaroslav tells a story
from one of his more recent visits to a Prague pub.
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A Czech town declares war on bureaucrats, on average every tenth child born
in the Czech Republic has a different biological father than presumed, and
a man gets one million crowns in compensation for unwittingly fathering
twins- find out more in this week's Magazine with Daniela Lazarova.
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Current AffairsBeer inspires art exhibition at Manes
A most unusual art exhibition opened at Prague's Manes Gallery on Friday
night. Titled Prazdroj Ceske Kultury or "The Fount of Czech
Culture" it brought together close to a hundred works of art inspired
by beer - pictures, paintings, photographs, sculptures and installations.
The idea was sponsored by the famous Pilsner brewery Pilsner Urquell which
turned it into a major social event. Among the VIPs present were culture
minister Pavel Dostal, film director Zdenek Sverak, actor Pavel Landovsky
and writers Michal Viewegh and Radko Pytlik. The exhibits sparked some
deep philosophical discussions and pints of free beer helped the
conversation to flow. Alexej Bechtin of the famous Pilsner Urquell brewery
explains what inspired the event:
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All kinds of different stories make the headlines today: shows an
uncompromising Kofi Annan, the U.N. Secretary General, responding strongly
to Tuesday apparent suicide attack in Baghdad that killed at least
twenty-four and injured over a hundred. Meanwhile,
highlights the return of weather-worn German tourists, kidnapped and held
for five months by Islamic fundamentalists in Algeria. Reportedly 4.6
million euros were paid out to ensure their safe release.
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The carnage caused by Wednesday's bombing of the United Nations
headquarters in Baghdad is splashed across all the front pages. The papers
carry eyewitness accounts of the massacre including a report from the
senior Czech envoy to Iraq, who says she lost a close friend in the blast.
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How much beer do Czechs actually drink, what's a "beer barrel
race", and where do you go to meet the winner of the Miss Garlic
contest? That and more in this week's Magazine with Daniela Lazarova.
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One topic shared by most Czech dailies on Tuesday is the continuing heat
wave. LIDOVE NOVINY carries a story about a north Bohemian village whose
water sources have dried out for the first time in history. According to
the paper, a total of twenty-four villages in the region have problems
with water distribution. Drinking water has to be carried to the villages
in cisterns and fire-fighters fetch service water for watering gardens and
house work.
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