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SpecialPrague students bring the past to life for the radio’s 90th birthday
It is exactly 90 years since the very first regular radio broadcasts in
Czechoslovakia began on 18 May 1923. These were humble beginnings, starting
in a borrowed scouts’ tent on the edge of Prague. But within just a few
years, radio became central to the lives of millions of Czechoslovaks and
over the decades the archives here in the Czech Radio headquarters have
become an Aladdin’s Cave of sound, a living audio source for anyone
wanting to research into twentieth century Czechoslovak history. For our
90th birthday, we joined forces with a group of journalism students in
Prague to bring some of these voices from the past back to life. More
Current AffairsJoin us on Saturday in celebrating our 90th birthday
This weekend we’ll be celebrating 90 years since the first regular radio
broadcasts in Czechoslovakia, and we’ll be bringing you a special
programme. David Vaughan has been working with a group of Prague journalism
students, to discover some of the forgotten gems hidden in the radio
archive. He tells us more about Saturday’s special programme.
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SpecialCelebrating some of the greatest Czechs abroad
There are more than two million Czechs and their Czech-speaking descendants
living outside their homeland, or working abroad indefinitely, and Czech
Radio and the Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs undertakes a number of
activities – partly through Radio Prague – to support those
communities, to keep their connections with this country strong and to
help
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