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One on OneBejamin Kuras - broadcaster, writer, commentator, eurosceptic
My guest today is Benjamin Kuras, who himself worked at Radio Prague for a
couple of months in mid-1968. Not long afterwards Mr Kuras - who is now a
well-known author, playwright and conservative political commentator -
left Czechoslovakia for the United Kingdom, where he lives to this day.
When I spoke to Mr Kuras at his quiet north London home, he told me he was
extremely close to graduating from university when he emigrated.
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Current AffairsLondon Czech Centre uses arts to present modern image of Czech Republic
The London Czech Centre is located on the busy Great Portland Street,
around five minutes walk from Oxford Circus. To escape from the noise at
street level, I spoke to the centre's young director Tomas Zykan in the
building's basement, and asked him just what it is that the Czech Centre
does.
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Business NewsCzechInvest in London attracts British and Irish capital to the Czech Republic
The Czech Republic has attracted record volumes of foreign direct
investment over the past few years. One of the reasons why the Czech
Republic has been so successful in attracting foreign investors is the
generous investment incentives and an all-inclusive assistance the Czech
government provides to investors through its agency CzechInvest whose nine
offices are scattered around the world. Ian Willoughby recently spoke to
CzechInvest's director of operations in the UK and Ireland, Rene Samek, at
his office on London's busy Harley St. Mr Samek started by outlining
CzechInvest's raison d'etre.
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Current AffairsVelehrad: a "spiritual refuge" for Czechs in London
Every day, Father Jan Lang leads a Czech mass in an upstairs room at the
Velehrad religious, cultural and social centre on London's leafy Ladbroke
Square. Velehrad has been a welcoming meeting place for young Czechs - and
Slovaks - for many years and also serves as a hostel. Father Lang is in
his 80s, and I asked him how long he'd been in London.
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