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Petr Wagner is the front man of Czech Christian punk group Goro, a
presenter on Český rozhlas station Radio Wave, and a Hussite preacher
based in Čerčany, near Prague. Ahead of Monday’s national holiday in
honour of Saint Wenceslas, I met Petr in a sunny Prague park to ask him
what he thought the nation’s patron saint meant to Czechs a millennium
after his death:
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Current AffairsExhibition celebrates Czech patron saint
This year, some historians contend, marks exactly 1,100 years since the
birth of St. Wenceslas, the Czech king and chief patron of the Czech lands.
To celebrate this important anniversary, the National Gallery together with
the Prague Archbishopric, organised a special exhibition at St Agnes’
Convent in Prague entitled Svatý Václav – ochránce české země or
King Wenceslas – the Patron of the Czech lands.
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SpotlightStara Boleslav - the town where St Wenceslas was slain
In this week's Spotlight we will travel to the small town of Stara Boleslav
just northeast of Prague. According to legend, it was in this town that the
Premyslid Prince Wenceslas, later St Wenceslas, was slain by his own
brother Boleslav in the 10th century.
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Czech MusicEncore: Turning music into gold - alchemy in the court of Rudolph II
You wouldn't usually associate music with mysterious arts of the alchemist,
but in Prague, at the beginning of the 17th century, just about anything
was possible. In Encore today, we look at "alchemical" music -
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Czech BooksElizabeth Jane Weston: an Englishwoman at the Court of Rudolph II
The great floods of August 2002 may have been the worst for a century, but
they certainly were not the first to hit the Czech capital. Here is a
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