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Current AffairsZlín surgeon restores patient’s sight after 53 years of blindness
Over the past 50 years artificial corneas have returned sight to more than
a hundred eyes around the world. The last such operation carried out in the
Czech Republic though was a landmark success in a pioneering field. Dr.
Pavel Stodůlka of the Gemini clinic in the Moravian town of Zlín has
succeeded in returning the eyesight of a man who had been completely blind
for more than 50 years, probably the longest period of blindness from which
a person has ever been cured. Earlier today, Dr. Stodůlka spoke to us
about this extraordinary achievement.
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Eating under cover of night: Prague has joined a number of world cities in
providing an unusual experience: wining and dining in utter darkness. Why
is the Czech Football Union dying of embarrassment? And, a multi-fruit tree
in celebration of the EU. Find out more in Magazine with Daniela Lazarová.
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Current AffairsCzech wine company produces labels with Braille text
Studying wine labels can be a daunting business if you are not a
connoisseur and if you spend hours making up your mind what to select from
your local wine-shop think how much harder things are for the blind, who
would need to bring a friend or depend entirely on the shop assistant. Now
a wine producer in Moravia has taken a step to change that. The Galant
winery from Mikulov has started producing the first wine labels with
letters in Braille. We spoke to one of the firm's co-owners Martin Marian
to find out more about this pioneering endeavor in the Czech wine
business.
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Current AffairsKarlovy Vary film festival: enjoying a cup of tea at the unusual Café in the Dark
The Czech Pop Idol Aneta Langerova has been enjoying quite a bit of success
here in the Czech Republic and she's been using it for a good cause. She
staged an open air concert during the Karlovy Vary film festival to which
she invited a number of special guests - young and talented singers, who
have not been able to make it in the music scene because they are blind.
The concert was in support of a Czech Radio project called Svetluska,
which organized a number of events at the festival to bring people who do
not have visual disabilities closer to the world of the blind. More
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Emergency aid for drunk cyclists. Making ornaments in the town of Happiness
and where are the prostitution road signs in the west Bohemian town of As
disappearing to? Find out more in Magazine with Daniela Lazarova.
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SpecialA world without sight
Most of us can not imagine what it is like to be visually impaired or
blind, what it's like to function in the world without sight. In the Czech
Republic, some estimates have suggested that as many as 100, 000 people
suffer from limited eyesight or are blind. That number was recently put
forward by the organisers of a exhibition aimed at designing household
objects for everyday use by the visually impaired, a task that organisers
say is not addressed in the Czech Republic nearly often enough. In today's
Special we look at the project and visit an institute helping professionals
work with the blind.
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Current AffairsDesign solutions for the dark
All of us, at one time or another, have suffered the misery of
poorly-designed objects: the spill-proof bottle that leaks, the vase with
a poor centre of gravity, an inaccessible computer jack. If, however you
are
visually impaired or blind, even well-designed objects can be a misery. A
new exhibition, currently underway at the National Technical Museum - in
conjunction with the Prague City museum - addresses the problem of design
in everyday objects for the visually impaired. It presents new solutions
where there have often been few in the past. More
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Give Czechs snow and they'll make a bottle of beer! The Skoda car maker
takes the Yetti to Geneva. And, re-enacting the devastating fire of 1881
which burnt down the National Theatre in Prague - a group of puppeteers
have taken on the challenge. Find out more in Magazine with Daniela
Lazarova.
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The shoes that look where you are going - a brand new invention to help the
blind! It's a dog's life! The smallest dog in the world is not allowed to
rest in peace. And, Jane: the first cheetah in the world to get an
artificial hip. All here in the Czech Republic. Find out more in Magazine
with Daniela Lazarova. More
Talking Point"Czech Blind United" - making Czech towns and cities friendlier to the blind and visually impaired
Many foreign visitors to Prague or elsewhere in the Czech Republic are
often puzzled by the ticking sound of traffic lights at pedestrian
crossings. It is the acoustic equivalent of the green and red lights and
for several years it has been helping the blind and visually impaired to
move around cities much more independently and confidently.
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