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One on OneVeronica Hyks: the past is not always a foreign country
Although she was born in Britain and has never lived in the Czech Republic,
the actress and broadcaster, Veronica Hyks, is every bit as Czech as she is
English. She speaks Czech without a hint of an accent, and gives every
impression of being totally at home in Prague, even though it has never
been more than her “virtual” home. Veronica Hyks tells David Vaughan
how this came about in this week’s One on One. More
One on OneVeronica Hyks: the past is not always a foreign country
Although she was born in Britain and has never lived in the Czech Republic,
the actress and broadcaster, Veronica Hyks, is every bit as Czech as she is
English. She speaks Czech without a hint of an accent, and gives every
impression of being totally at home in Prague, even though it has never
been more than her “virtual” home. Veronica Hyks tells David Vaughan
how this came about in this week’s One on One. More
SpecialJan Gregor - reporter for a London-based magazine for Czechs and Slovaks
Jan Gregor is a reporter for Echo, a magazine for Czechs and Slovaks living
in the UK and Ireland. Jan, who comes from the Slovak city of Banska
Bystrice, is himself one of the many thousands of young people from this
part of the world who have moved to the British Isles since European Union
enlargement in 2004.
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SpotlightCzech-Slovak couple enjoying dream life as owners of castle in Scotland
The Edlmans are a Czech-Slovak couple who chose to escape the stresses of
London and build a very different life in a castle in the west of
Scotland. Castle Levan is located on the outskirts of the sea-side town of
Gourock, less than an hour from Glasgow. I'll let the owners introduce
themselves:
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One on OneLady Luisa Abrahams - a truly remarkable life
Lady Luisa Abrahams, who died last week at the age of 95, was a truly
remarkable woman. Born Luisa Kramerova in 1910 she grew up in the Prague
district of Bubenec, where her father ran a hospital. A leading ladies
golfer in pre-war Czechoslovakia, Lady Luisa stayed in the UK, where she
had gone to play a tournament, when World War II broke out. She spent the
rest of her life in Britain, but always maintained close contacts with her
home country. More
Current AffairsWorld renowned Czech architect Jan Kaplicky subject of new documentary
The Czech architect Jan Kaplicky is the man behind Future Systems, one of
the most innovative design offices in the world. He is perhaps best known
for the futuristic Selfridges building in the English city of Birmingham
and the remarkable media centre at Lord's cricket ground in London. Mr
Kaplicky, 67, is now the subject of a documentary entitled Profil, or
Profile. More
One on OneIvan Margolius - from child "undesirable" to propagator of Czech culture
In 1952, when Ivan Margolius was five years old, his father Rudolf, a
former deputy minister of foreign trade, was found guilty in the notorious
Slansky show trials, surely one of the darkest chapters of the Communist
era. Rudolf Margolius, who like Ivan's mother Heda had survived the Nazi
death camps, was executed. Ivan Margolius left Czechoslovakia in 1966 and
is now a successful architect in the UK. When I spoke to him recently, he
recalled growing up in the shadow of his father's death.
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