Episodes
In the show today: news; Pardubice ice hockey stadium set to be biggest in the world; Brno's beautiful Villa Arnold restored; Sergio Almedia on cyclists' rights and safety in Prague.
Published 10/21/24
David Vaughan talks Audrey Knoth about the discovery from her Czech past that changed one American family's life.
Published 10/19/24
News; animal cruelty on Czech farms; Identita exhibition shows story of Czech graphic design; international coffee festival in Prague.
Published 10/18/24
On the show today: news; scientist develop probe to save infected trees; Prague Cemeteries and Funeral Services host open days; Moravian cimbalom player Matěj Číp on his journey to Berklee College of Music
Published 10/17/24
On today's show: news; Czechia has been ranked second in fixed sports matches; new 'poetry jukebox' is unveiled at Prague Airport; we explore Prague's passages with architect Štěpán Beneš.
Published 10/16/24
News; Experts creating 3D model of Terezín; Slavic fortress in Germany now under Czech ownership; Edith Pargeter: Murder-mystery novelist and self-taught Czech translator
Published 10/14/24
News; new plans unveiled for Wenceslas Square; Jan Žižka's face reconstructed; 40 years since Jaroslav Seifert won the Nobel Prize for Literature
Published 10/11/24
News; senate approves restrictions of kratom and HHC; land exchange in flood-risk areas; songbook marks Velvet Revolution; Veronika Novotna, Czech UN Youth Delegate.
Published 10/10/24
News, Signal Festival in Prague, Czech scientists develop atomic antibiotics, portrait of Vaclav Havel "in his own words".
Published 10/09/24
News; Czechia struggling with pensions reform; St. Wenceslas Vineyard on the slopes of Prague Castle; Disinformation in Czechia continues to threaten democracy
Published 10/08/24
News; three-day strike by judicial workers; the recipients of this year's Thalia awards; Evan Rail on absinthe and its Czech connections
Published 10/07/24
News, The European Commission calls on Czechia to stop discriminating against Roma children, what are Czechs most concearned about and why? Duke Wenceslas Future Leaders Programme in Prague.
Published 10/04/24
News; method to detect pancreatic cancer; solar bikes from Czechia to the Sahara; conductor Jakub Hrůša wins two 'classical music Oscars'; André Amalio theater performance
Published 10/03/24
News; Czechia vetoes EU call for ceasefire in Lebanon; Designblok 2024 to celebrate youth and longevity in art; Marek Hovorka on 28 years of Ji.hlava
Published 10/02/24
News, Adolf Loos building in Plzen to become museum, Kutna Hora featured in Kingdom Come:Deliverance II, life of Lidice survivor Jaroslava Sklenickova.
Published 10/01/24
News; ANO’s win in 2024 Czech regional and Senate elections; first-ever astronomical clock in US; Ministry of Foreign Affairs opens archives; Jirka Chroustovský interview.
Published 09/30/24
News; a new report shows increase in social media addiction among teens; Czechs at the Brooklyn Book Festival; historian Rosamund Johnston on radio under communism.
Published 09/27/24
News; Petr Pavel at UN General Assembly; Architecture Day explores places related to Kafka; initiative at Charles University seeks to change firearms laws
Published 09/26/24
News; Czech government faces shake-up as junior partner may walk out; People in Need helping flood-hit regions; scientists say human activity partly to blame for floods
Published 09/25/24
News; Old's Cool festival begins in Smíchov; the Serial Killer TV and internet festival kicks off in Brno; writer Jana Prikryl on her family's flight from Czechoslovakia.
Published 09/24/24
News; Pundit on regional elections results; Prague aims to have a thousand charging stations for electric cars; Bruce Weber gets major retrospective in Prague
Published 09/23/24
Harpsichord maker Jukka Ollika on making the Omniwerk, inspired by Leonardo da Vinci; Zlín: modernist architecture, bustling industry and big personalities
Published 09/21/24
News; Voting in elections “tough test” for flooded municipalities; Biggest Czech festival of illustration and comics kicks off in Prague; Czech Please: You can eat as well in Prague as in major world cities
Published 09/20/24
News; Prague rated the coolest student city in Europe; Ivan Theimer 80th birthday; Adam Štěch’s architecture and design exhibition Elements opens in Vienna.
Published 09/19/24
News, Czechia gets International Partnerships portfolio in EC, government helping flood-hit regions organize voting in elections, trip to Loučen Chateau in Central Bohemia
Published 09/18/24