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There's a mixed bag of stories on the front pages of today's dailies - news
that Vladimir Zelezny could have a chance of regaining control of the
country's most popular commercial TV station Nova, the latest fatal road
accident in which four young people died when another vehicle failed to
give way at a crossroads, and proposals by Interior Minister Stanislav
Gross for the Czech president to be elected in a direct vote, rather than
today's parliamentary system.
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Perhaps no story draws more attention in today's Czech dailies than
President Vaclav Klaus' visit at Milos Zeman's cottage in the Vysocina
region. The two men - who are former political rivals of the highest
calibre - both ran for the Czech presidency last year, a race Mr Klaus
eventually won. Former prime minister Milos Zeman welcomed Mr Klaus at his
cottage on Sunday with typical Czech fare - a selection of pork dishes
from a zabijacka or recent pig slaughter. The two men spoke for about
two-and-a-half hours - in the end saying they had just spoken as
"regular guys" and not as politicians. Regular guys perhaps, but
guys who still make pretty big waves in the Czech Republic: photos of
their meeting made the covers of almost ever single paper.
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One on OneGary Edwards - clowning around in the country's children's hospitals
Rob Cameron's guest in One on One this week is someone who describes
himself as a "health clown". Gary Edwards really is a clown - a
professionally-trained clown who wears a bright red nose, plays the tuba
and falls over a lot - but he does these things in hospitals across the
Czech Republic, visiting sick and terminally ill children and trying to
put a smile on their faces.
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In this week's Mailbox we look into a new law extending the warranty
period, find out why it now takes longer to solve court cases, and see how
BSE varies from Creutzfeld Jakobs Disease. Listeners quoted are Susanne
Brighton, Stanley White, and Dennis O'Connor.
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Letter from PragueWhy reading Czech is much easier than speaking it
Before I started here at Radio Prague I worked as a translator at CTK, the
Czech Republic's only news agency and I still do translations to make a
bit of extra cash. I find myself doing the most bizarre translations,
often in areas of which I know next to nothing, such as ceramics, the
construction industry and, for my sins, Lord of the Rings mobile phone
games.
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The tragic Egyptian charter plane crash that left 148 dead and panoramic
colour images of Mars released by NASA after establishing contact with a
US probe to search for signs of life on the Red Planet make the front
pages of almost all the main dailies today. Domestically, it's a photo of
Czech actress Helena Ruzickova that dominates the papers. Mrs Ruzickova
died on Sunday at the age of 67 after losing a two-year battle against
cancer.
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MagazineMagazine
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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