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Current AffairsBrno hosted the largest engineering fair in Central Europe
Brno, the second largest city in the Czech Republic, recently hosted the 46th
international engineering fair at Brno's historic exhibition centre. The
fair brings together over 2000 firms from 33 countries. Last week, over 100,000 people from not only the Czech Republic but as
far as Asia and North America have came to the fair to see what the
leading Czech, as well as other international engineering firms have to
offer. Martin Hrobsky spoke to Jiri Erlebach, spokesperson for the fair.
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One on OneGeoffrey Chew: fond memories of Brno in the 1960s
Geoffrey Chew has spent many years studying Czech music. He was born in
South Africa, but has lived in Britain for most of his life, lecturing in
music at the University of London. As a student in the early 1960s, just
as the political thaw was beginning in Czechoslovakia, he spent a year in
the old city of Brno on a British Council scholarship. It was there that
he fell in love with the work of the great Czech composer, Leos Janacek,
who spent most of his life in the city. A couple of weeks ago Geoffrey
Chew was back there again, for an international Janacek conference. I took
the opportunity to catch up with him, and ask him about his memories of
Brno then, and impressions of the city today.
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Current AffairsTwo very different exhibitions offer insights into the life and work of Leos Janacek
Last week we reported from the Czech Republic's second city of Brno on a
major festival devoted to the Czech composer, Leos Janacek. But the
festival isn't the only event under way in the city related to the
Moravian capital's greatest musical son. This year is the 150th
anniversary of the composer's birth, and on Friday two new exhibitions
opened in Brno, devoted to Leos Janacek. David Vaughan spoke with the
director of Brno's House of the Arts, Jitka Vitaskova.
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Today's Mailbox includes: Topics: cards, photos, etc. from listeners. Is
there a DX program on RP? Holocaust survivors, St. Barbara Cathedral in
Kutna Hora, prostitution in the Czech Republic. Quotes from: Hidemitsu
Miyake, William Cookson, Bradley Allen, D.M.Cook, James Witherman, John
Mellington,
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Current AffairsMuseum of Alchemy perfectly located in medieval town of Kutna Hora
The picturesque medieval town of Kutna Hora, around 70 kilometres east of Prague, was once one of the largest towns in Europe, and was a centre of copper and silver mining. Nowadays, it is extremely popular with tourists, and one of the latest attractions in the town is a museum of alchemy. I recently visited the alchemy museum, which is located in the perfect setting of the Sankturnin Palace, on Kutna Hora's main square.
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Business NewsFlextronics to leave Czech Republic
Over the past few years, the Czech Republic has attracted an enormous volume of foreign direct investment due to a combination of factors - cheap and skilled labour, ideal geographic location for supplying European markets, and generous investment incentive schemes.
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Current AffairsBrno expects a wave of lay-offs
The Czech Republic's second largest city, Brno, is preparing for massive redundancies at several local companies. Although the lay-offs are expected to cost thousands of jobs in a city of half a million people, the local authorities say they they will have little chance of finding new jobs unless a new strategic investor arrives. Vladimir Tax has more.
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Current AffairsInto the depths of Kutna Hora's silver mines
And staying in the country, our correspondent reports from the medieval town of Kutna Hora, and descends into the murky depths of the town's famous silver mines... More
