http://radio.cz/en All the Latest Articles in English en Mon, 13 Feb 2012 17:08:58 +0100 Mon, 13 Feb 2012 17:08:58 +0100 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Radio Prague CMS 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Radio Broadcasting cr@radio.cz (Cesky Rozhlas) webmaster@radio.cz (CRo Webmaster) http://radio.cz/en/section/one-on-one/international-radio-day-with-prize-winning-journalist-jan-bednar The fortunes of journalist Jan Bednář only beginning to unfold when he was kicked out of the School of Economics after signing the anti-communist Charter 77 and compelled to work as a night watchman for several years. The son of a dissident imprisoned for publishing samizdat literature, the regime was glad to be rid of him when he applied to leave the country in the early 80s. He went to England and was able to complete his studies in politics, philosophy and economics at Oxford University, from where he proceeded to join the Czechoslovak service of the BBC in 1985. Mon, 13 Feb 2012 17:08:58 +0100 urn:uuid:8e966225-1b4d-5cf6-a446-fdca61757f4f http://radio.cz/en/section/sport/sports-news-2012-02-13 In this weeks sports news, the Czech Republic progresses to the Davis Cup quarter finals; the national hockey team sees one debacle and one triumph; Czech basketball player Jan Veselý helps his NBA team to victory and ski jumper Roman Koudelka scores a career-best jump. Mon, 13 Feb 2012 16:20:55 +0100 urn:uuid:be825b79-f11b-5525-b0fc-29a7e44c72e4 http://radio.cz/en/section/curraffrs/roma-kids-from-special-schools-put-czech-education-system-to-shame-in-great-britain Thousands of teachers around the country are up in arms. They are unhappy about the government’s plans to gradually phase out special schools – or schools for children with a mental or physical handicap – and integrate as many of these children as possible into the education mainstream. Mon, 13 Feb 2012 16:17:11 +0100 urn:uuid:c46663d1-0627-532b-be0c-f8543cfd1ad2 http://radio.cz/en/news#7 Another poll has confirmed that the former prime minister Jan Fischer is the people’s top choice for president. Mon, 13 Feb 2012 14:50:16 +0100 urn:uuid:bb3b45f0-a278-5351-a24b-42fa8677e4ed http://radio.cz/en/news#1 The OECD has criticised the Czech Republic for eliminating socially disadvantaged children from mainstream education. Mon, 13 Feb 2012 14:50:15 +0100 urn:uuid:cfe85c7e-a47a-584b-b2af-71b3a2435f9f http://radio.cz/en/news#2 Fugitive businessman Radovan Krejčíř was arrested by South African police on Sunday on suspicion of armed robbery. Mon, 13 Feb 2012 14:50:14 +0100 urn:uuid:ad4e567e-d06a-50dd-82d9-c3df8edf093f http://radio.cz/en/news#4 Rail traffic in central Bohemia was badly disrupted on Monday by problems relating to the cold snap. Mon, 13 Feb 2012 14:50:13 +0100 urn:uuid:0c53e065-1f53-5f31-9f71-af640abe1089 http://radio.cz/en/news#3 Czech police have arrested an Albanian man sought on an international warrant. Mon, 13 Feb 2012 14:50:12 +0100 urn:uuid:0dc31f47-bdc3-52c2-9045-8b24d79be7bb http://radio.cz/en/section/news/news-2012-02-12 News 12.2.2012 Sun, 12 Feb 2012 23:59:59 +0100 urn:uuid:a81ad146-d54a-5d6a-b512-9a49c638c058 http://radio.cz/en/section/sunday-music-show/czech-music-composer-karel-svoboda This week’s Sunday Music Show is devoted to Karel Svoboda one of the country’s most prolific composers, the author of countless hit-songs, well-known scores for films, musicals, TV series and theatre productions. Although the man himself was never centre stage several generations of Czechs grew up with his music and people still hum many of his evergreens. Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:01:00 +0100 urn:uuid:4c9623be-00ca-517d-88ee-62f9fa68d0df http://radio.cz/en/section/news/news-2012-02-11 News 11.2.2012 Sat, 11 Feb 2012 23:59:59 +0100 urn:uuid:f2a9de80-8004-564f-8e0d-d464deb006d8 http://radio.cz/en/section/archives/satchmo-and-the-liberating-power-of-jazz-1 Nothing better symbolizes the political thaw in 1960s Czechoslovakia than the boom in jazz, which many saw as embodying the very idea of individual expression and freedom from constraint. It is not hard to imagine the excitement when Louis Armstrong came to Prague in March 1965. Many people felt that Czechoslovakia had at last come in from the cold, and his concert at Prague’s Lucerna Ballroom was a cultural milestone. It ended with Satchmo thanking his audience, commenting that the Czech passion for jazz had come as quite a surprise to him. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 02:01:00 +0100 urn:uuid:d6b24fdc-07d2-5784-8549-f1a52fea14a3 http://radio.cz/en/section/books/dickens-and-the-good-soldier-svejk Here is a question for the Dickens bicentenary. What is the connection between the great 19th century English novelist and the best-loved Czech literary anti-hero? The answer is, surprisingly enough, that without Dickens we quite possibly wouldn’t have Švejk at all. David Vaughan looks at this and some other Czech links with Dickens in this week’s Czech Books. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 02:00:59 +0100 urn:uuid:5c0c5ceb-4923-5e37-97df-61149c2f44b4 http://radio.cz/en/section/screen-czech/screen-czech-2012-02-11 The undisputed most famous Czech director alive today, Milos Forman speaks about his varied career in the Czechoslovakia and in Hollywood ahead of his 80th birthday. I’ll be talking to the model, singer and now actress Iva Fruhlingova about what it’s like to make her screen debut and the ups and downs of working with one of the most successful Czech directors still resident in the country, Filip Renc. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +0100 urn:uuid:ad0886b3-3a4e-5fc3-95d2-cd16d93ff7a4 http://radio.cz/en/section/news/news-2012-02-10 News 10.2.2012 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:46:09 +0100 urn:uuid:0ca86c8f-7ac3-555a-b819-443a88e43f31 http://radio.cz/en/section/curraffrs/eu-human-rights-court-rules-czech-state-denied-kinsky-fair-trial-in-property-restitution-case The European Court of Human Rights denounced the Czech state for having denied a fair trial to František Oldřich Kinský, an Austrian aristocrat who sued the country over his property claims. The court said that Mr Kinský, who passed away nearly three years ago, had been subjected to abusive treatment by the Czech authorities when he sued to get back family property worth around 40 billion crowns. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:41:00 +0100 urn:uuid:d705f40e-e38e-5673-9758-0775ad02240e http://radio.cz/en/section/economic/business-news-2012-02-10 In Business News: The government debt has reached almost 40 percent of the GDP; unemployment in January rose to 9.1 percent; the Czech state loses an estimated 25 to 30 billion crowns every a year on account of tax evasion; union representatives have rejected a 2.5 percent salary bump offered by car manufacturer Škoda Auto; the sale of winter clothing and apparel – including winter wear for dogs – has jumped markedly in the cold snap. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:09:15 +0100 urn:uuid:bd75f292-9dbf-5d8d-a955-840b7001b089 http://radio.cz/en/section/arts/sklo-sklu-sklem-on-view-at-villa-becher-interactive-gallery The first show of the season opened last Friday at the Villa Becher Interactive Gallery in Karlovy Vary: called Sklo-Sklu-Sklem/Glas-Glaser-Am Glasersten the new exhibition is a first foray by a number of Czech and German colleagues (painters, photographers, filmmakers and designers) in working in glass. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:00:25 +0100 urn:uuid:c4f06a40-186d-5c0e-a0a1-c611238f94ef http://radio.cz/en/section/news/news-2012-02-09 News 9.2.2012 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:17:39 +0100 urn:uuid:9e99f5b7-1276-5724-a211-dbb28161d3f5 http://radio.cz/en/section/panorama/czechs-and-the-internet Computers and the internet have become an integral part of our lives to such an extent that it is hard to imagine how we ever managed without them. However a recent survey conducted by the Czech Statistical Office shows that Czechs are still lagging behind many EU states when it comes to computer literacy and internet access. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:14:32 +0100 urn:uuid:30913cd8-05ca-550c-8ad0-c31ac1455a72