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Celebrating some of the greatest Czechs abroad
There are more than two million Czechs and their Czech-speaking descendants
living outside their homeland, or working abroad indefinitely, and Czech
Radio and the Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs undertakes a number of
activities – partly through Radio Prague – to support those
communities, to keep their connections with this country strong and to
help
them spread knowledge about the Czech Republic. More
Mailbox
In this week's Mailbox: Music videos filmed in Prague, music in Radio
Prague's broadcasts. Listeners quoted: Evelyn Coviello, Maren Brown,
Stephen Hrebenach, Chun-Quan Meng. More
Ivan Jelínek: a poet in the newsroom
If you had been listening to Radio Prague back in the late 1930s, it is
very likely that you would have heard the voice of Ivan Jelínek. He was
one of the pioneers of broadcasting in Czechoslovakia, and an early
presenter of our broadcasts to Britain and North America. From the radio
headquarters here in Vinohrady, he witnessed many of the dramas leading up
to World War Two, including moment of the German occupation itself. During
his wartime exile in Britain and in the decades that followed the war, Ivan
Jelínek became a familiar voice in the Czechoslovak section of the BBC,
and he continued to broadcast from London until his death in 2002, at the
age of 93. But Ivan Jelínek was not just a broadcaster. His lifelong
passion was poetry. In Czech Books this week, I’ll be looking at
Jelínek’s fascinating life and work.
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Best of One on One 2009
In this special New Year’s Day programme, we look back at some of the
best of our interview programme One on One in 2009. Among those featured:
Catholic intellectual Martin C Putna, historian Igor Lukeš, academic
Peter
Demetz, former Radio Prague man John Tregellas, jazz musician Rudy Linka
and the great American cartoonist Robert Crumb. More
John Tregellas: going native in Prague
I first met John Tregellas just after the Velvet Revolution, when we both
started working for Radio Prague at a time of huge changes in Czech
society. At the time neither of us suspected that nearly two decades later
we would both still be here. These days, John, who grew up in the English
county of Devon, runs a successful business organizing tours in Central
Europe for choirs and orchestras from all over the world. Speaking near
perfect Czech, he says that he now feels every bit at home in Prague as he
does in his native Britain. I went to see him at his smart new offices in
Vinohrady, just a few hundred yards behind the radio building, and I began
by asking him how his interest in things Czech began.
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Mailbox
This week in Mailbox: the beneficial properties of sea water once again,
the Barrandov film studios in Prague, an Oscar for Czech musician Markéta
Irglová, the 30th anniversary of Czech cosmonaut Vladimír Remek’s
flight into space. Listeners quoted: Robert Fraser, Howard Barnett, Stephen
Hrebenach, Thomas Kuca.
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