2011-01-29T02:01:00+01:00 Radio Prague http://www.radio.cz/en/article/135635 urn:uuid:1185b68c-88e8-5d90-85d3-3632b692dd2f 2011-01-29T02:01:00+01:00

Are you into high heels? Check out the “Chopin” shoe at the footwear museum in Zlín. Why do some Czechs expect their dogs to turn vegetarian – and desperate drivers create a map of the worst potholes around the Czech Republic! Find out more in Magazine with Daniela Lazarová.

urn:uuid:99ff8447-41e9-5c39-adee-020576dbbff4 2011-01-22T02:01:00+01:00

Getting your child into a good school is no mean feat – some parents are ready to queue all night for the privilege! Pregnant mums are now enjoying special concerts to “bond” with baby, and want to see a yellow submarine? Head for Brno! Find out more in Magazine with Daniela Lazarová.

urn:uuid:76ace9ad-4fd3-5c9f-98a4-418de320d9e0 2011-01-15T02:01:00+01:00

Last week was the time to check out Prague’s ghosts, lovers of good food are having a ball, and set your own price: a café owner finds a way to drum up business. Find out more in Magazine with Daniela Lazarova.

urn:uuid:e7a79dfa-4940-5cd0-9aa9-e6cb8577471c 2011-01-08T02:01:00+01:00

If there is anything worse than a bad mayor –it is a bad mayor with literary ambitions. The first ever café for dog-owners opens in the town of Plzen, west Bohemia, and who’s that on the sofa? Find out more in Magazine with Daniela Lazarová.

urn:uuid:b50101bc-5196-52f6-8cbd-5f914733c7f2 2010-12-18T02:01:00+01:00

A bid to make road junctions in the Czech Republic safer by pitching cardboard cut-outs of female officers has backfired. With their miniskirts and high heels the cut-outs have become crash-magnets instead. And, a student wins a million crowns in the lottery – and tears up the ticket. Find out more in Magazine with Daniela Lazarová.

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The animated film Kuky Returns is back – this time in English, a copper five haler coin minted in 1924 sells for half a million crowns and, Czech tattoo artists hold an auction of their work – on oranges and lemons. Find out more in Magazine with Daniela Lazarová.

urn:uuid:23699f5b-c19f-5163-8a67-c3e009ad3b8e 2010-12-04T02:01:00+01:00

A homeless man sets up house in a sewer, powering his electric appliances from a nearby street lamp. Czech celebrities dress up as famous people for charity. And where is my home – a Czech expat in search of his identity. Find out more in Magazine with Daniela Lazarová.

urn:uuid:981c3197-cf6f-5022-941a-cb85f0e3a393 2010-11-27T02:01:00+01:00

A wanted criminal makes a fatal mistake. Sick of Prague’s rude, unscrupulous taxi-drivers? Try a taxi service with a difference! And, a huge chunk of ice from the sky crashes through the roof of a family house. Find out more in Magazine with Daniela Lazarová.

urn:uuid:c8c4831a-e103-5251-a346-544184804e6f 2010-11-20T02:01:00+01:00

A French pilot lands on a busy motorway near Brno. A Czech beauty queen shows off a dress made of plastic bottles and, and what do Czechs say when they smile for a photographer. Find out more in Magazine with Daniela Lazarová.

urn:uuid:12cc5edd-04f0-502d-b00c-09ec14bcf695 2010-11-13T02:01:00+01:00

A sixty-year-old pensioner is in hot water after some left-over bird-seed he reportedly threw out in his back-yard sprouted producing a number of fine marihuana plants. A Macaque monkey is safely back in its enclosure at Olomouc zoo after repeatedly slipping out on his own private outings and, what’s to be done about a couple of gay vultures? Find out more in Magazine with Daniela Lazarová.

urn:uuid:ea696790-d1e9-5fe9-9a32-dfb22b780a70 2010-11-06T02:01:00+01:00

Bare students, bear tracks, bureaucratic howlers, and gum free public places. Plus the not so promising precedents for sealing the knot at an historic Prague theatre. Find out about all that and more in this week’s magazine by Chris Johnstone.

urn:uuid:60bd6b8c-525c-5acb-9562-5e001dfa02fe 2010-10-30T02:01:00+02:00

As temperatures drop even Prague’s statues are bundling up, former US secretary of state Madeleine Albright was in Prague this week for the launch of her book Read My Pins: Stories from a Diplomat's Jewel Box and, a man wins three quarters of a million on the outcome of the senate elections. Find out more in Magazine with Daniela Lazarová.

urn:uuid:c82e7c43-f21f-5be2-b65a-5189c5d761df 2010-10-23T02:01:00+02:00

A ram attacks a young woman shopping on the outskirts of Prague, why is the early arrival of ravens seen as a bad sign? And, before you take a ride in one of Prague’s horse-drawn carriages take a good look at the driver! Find out more in Magazine with Daniela Lazarová.

urn:uuid:2a05458f-ee5a-5550-8194-922bc201aec8 2010-10-16T02:01:00+02:00

Two unfortunate cops get a lesson in law from a man on a scooter; richest Czech businessman buys a new jet to fly in style; an historic plane which Jan Antonín Baťa flew around the world will return to the Czech Republic; and US actor Tom Cruise strips to the waist during the filming of Mission Impossible 4 in Prague.

urn:uuid:839fe70e-a7b9-589f-a2e3-787387d80064 2010-10-09T02:01:00+02:00

A driver draws his sword in heavy traffic, Lolita-style fashions come to Prague, and a millionaire turns up at the labour office for his monthly social welfare bonus. Find out more in Magazine with Daniela Lazarová.

urn:uuid:4beec2f5-986b-5fd6-a57f-fe31a94be990 2010-10-02T02:01:00+02:00

Czech cabinet ministers are asked to hand over their school report cards, Tom Cruise wows admiring fans in Prague and, Martina Sáblíková turns fashion model for a day! Find out more in Magazine with Daniela Lazarová.

urn:uuid:5e8f8120-9361-5bff-9075-025d6393a941 2010-09-25T02:01:00+02:00

The archbishop of Prague climbs the skies in a fighter-jet, if people are willing to buy perfumes based on their favourite food –then why not their favourite drink? And, who’s that in the kitchen? Find out more in Magazine with Daniela Lazarová.

urn:uuid:3e2e987d-20b5-5f85-b982-fffe5f216aba 2010-09-18T02:01:00+02:00

A drunk driver falls asleep in the middle of a cross-road, people in Brno are meeting a tiger being walked on a leash –and there’s a scramble for weddings on October 10th. Find out more in Magazine with Daniela Lazarova.

urn:uuid:6d7b428f-9250-58ea-989d-b26dab4ed2c9 2010-09-11T02:01:00+02:00

Hockey legend Dominik Hašek’s fifteen-year-old daughter Dominika steps out of her father’s shadow. Some of the stones extracted and replaced during the reconstruction of Charles Bridge will most likely have to be put back! And, Mountfield produces a collection of historic lawn-mowers people made at home during the communist years. Find out more in Magazine with Daniela Lazarová.

urn:uuid:5b7ebb5f-eeed-5163-b011-98e76da2a4f6 2010-09-04T02:01:00+02:00

Czech TV says no offense intended after featuring a pig-snorting competition during a break in a Parliament session broadcast live. A Czech town paints-over a mosaic ahead of the president’s visit, and why is the new clock on Brno’s main square getting so many insulting nicknames? Find out more in Magazine with Daniela Lazarová.