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Celebrating some of the greatest Czechs abroad

28-10-2012 02:01 | Christian Falvey

Běla Gran Jensen, photo: Milena Štráfeldová/ Czech Radio 7 - Radio Prague 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

19-09-2010 | Pavla Horáková

INXS, Never Tear Us Apart 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

02-05-2010 02:01 | David Vaughan

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.  More

Best of One on One 2009

01-01-2010 02:01 | Ian Willoughby

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

08-06-2009 10:44 | David Vaughan

John Tregellas, photo: David Vaughan 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.  More

Mailbox

09-03-2008 01:22 | Pavla Horáková

Foto: Barrandov film studios 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.  More

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