Section Archive Pick of the Month
Pick of the Month
In this edition of Pick of the Month: a new book tells the sometimes tragic
stories of the original Jewish owners of art works on show at Prague's
Museum of Applied Arts; despite various campaigns, racism has still not
been eradicated from Czech football terraces; an enfant terrible of the
Czech art world discusses his work; and we look at the explosion in beauty
contests in this country in recent years.
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Pick of the Month
In this edition of Pick of the Month: it's 20 years since the unveiling of
the popular Skoda Favorit - an owner explains the car's appeal; it's the
end
of the road for aluminium heller coins; the great Lenka Reinerova tells us
it was considered strange that she continued writing in German after the
war - but suddenly things changed; a young film-maker compares
developments
in South Africa and the Czech Republic; and movie-going under the stars -
we visit open air cinemas in Prague. More
Pick of the Month
In this edition of Pick of the Month: as Charles Bridge celebrates its
650th anniversary, Prague's mayor outlines the importance of famous
landmark; the great Prague-born artist Vaclav "Wenceslaus"
Hollar is remembered, 400 years after his birth; a new ferry opens on the
Vltava; an expert on Czech beer tells us to get out of town; and are there
elements of Dada in the work of the anarchic creator of Svejk, Jaroslav
Hasek?
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Pick of the Month
In this edition of Pick of the Month; a former US soldier argues that
allowing his country to build a radar base in the Czech Republic could
threaten Czech security; the "Czech Lawrence of Arabia" Alois
Musil remembered; how Prague has become more expensive than some US
cities; and leading poet, literary critic and saxophonist Jan Stolba
discusses some of the people who inspired him.
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Pick of the Month
In this edition of Pick of the Month: President Vaclav Klaus speaks to us
at a ceremony remembering the Russian emigres shipped off to the gulags at
the end of the war; Czech researchers may have made a break through in the
fight against cancer; Czechs are more genetically mixed than you might
imagine, we learn from a Prague company; the German ambassador explains
why a "Trabant" is moving in his embassy's garden; American
Marsha Kocabova recalls life in communist Czechoslovakia; and photographer
Eva Fuka describes returning to Prague in her mid 70s.
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Pick of the Month
In Pick of the Month, we revisit some of the highlights in our broadcasting
schedule over the last thirty days or so. Some of the things in this
month's selection include a look at the significance of the Skoda
industrial dispute, the life and career of the recently deceased Czech
poet and philosopher Egon Bondy, Kurt Vonnegut Jr.'s surprising Czech
connections, the amazing story of Prague resident Adolf Burger who forged
dollars for the Third Reich, and an interview with Czech feminist scholar
Marcela Linkova.
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Pick of the Month
Pick of the Month is a new feature which takes a quick look back at some of
the highlights in our programming over the past thirty days or so. Some of
the things we have included in this month's selection are our look at
right-wing extremism in the Czech Republic, the visit we paid to the mint
in Kutna Hora, and interviews we had with British film director Leslie
Woodhead and the Czech translator of Tom Stoppard's new play Rock'n'Roll,
which was inspired by The Plastic People of the Universe.
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