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The undisputed most famous Czech director alive today, Milos Forman speaks
about his varied career in the Czechoslovakia and in Hollywood ahead of his
80th birthday. I’ll be talking to the model, singer and now actress Iva
Fruhlingova about what it’s like to make her screen debut and the ups and
downs of working with one of the most successful Czech directors still
resident in the country, Filip Renc. More
Sunday Music ShowMusic from the Noughties
In this week’s Sunday Music Show we highlight some of brightest new rock
and pop acts in the Czech Republic. Listen to fresh tracks from Bek Ofis
and a brace by Prague funk outfit Monkey Business – as well as a classic
from the first winner of Czech Pop Idol. More
Current AffairsIva Fruehlingová hoping debut book will help others avoid pitfalls of modelling profession
At the tender age of 14, Iva Fruehlingová moved to France, on her own, to
pursue a successful career as a model. In recent years, she has returned to
the Czech Republic, where she is now a successful pop singer. On top of
that, she has just brought out her first book, a collection of short
stories entitled Příběhy modelek [Models’ Stories]. I spoke to
Fruehlingová at the launch of the book, and began by asking her what had
inspired it.
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Czech BooksFrench connections and European visions
Hello and welcome to Czech Books, which this week has a French accent. It
would be hard to overstate the very important and longstanding relationship
between the Czech and French cultures. Historically many writers and
artists such as Alfons Mucha, Toyen and more recently, Milan Kundera, have
found a home in France, and the tradition continues today with the
translator and writer Patrik Ouředník, whose very powerful and remarkable
book, Europeana, we'll be discussing today.
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Czech BooksRichard Weiner: a European mind
In this edition of Czech Books we look at the work of Richard Weiner, a
Czech writer of the first half of the twentieth century, who was immensely
influential on his own and later generations of writers and yet today is
little read and little known outside the Czech Republic. Even within the
country, among the writers of the period of the First Republic, he is far
from being a household name. This neglect is very much undeserved, and one
person who has been trying to draw attention to Richard Weiner and his
legacy is the translator and literary scholar, Martin Tharp.
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Current AffairsExceptional French painting fails to interest Czech art collectors
This weekend a painting by a famous French Fauvist painter Maurice de
Vlaminck was sold at an auction in Prague’s Dorotheum for 5.3 million
crowns (approximately 280,000 US dollars). Even though it was valued at 7
million crowns, in the end it only slightly exceeded the starting price.
Vlaminck’s “Landscape with Buildings”, dating back to 1914, has thus
become the 13th most expensive work of art to be sold at a Czech auction.
The head of the auction house Marie Galova says it is not easy to explain
the lack of interest on the part of buyers but it may be connected with the
local character of the Czech art market.
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Current AffairsCzech pop band Krystof back with new album "Rubikon"
A number of years ago the Czech band Krystof - led by frontman Richard
Krajco - broke onto the Czech pop scene with their first album
"Magneticke Pole" (Magnetic Fields), their single
"Lolita" bringing them overnight success. Since then, the band
has released four more albums, including the critically acclaimed
"Mikrokosmos". But, none was perhaps more anticipated than its
latest "Rubikon", which some Czech critics are already calling
one of Krystof's best. The lead single has climbed to third spot on the
charts (in popular TV music programme Eso) and it's now getting a fair
amount of rotation. More
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