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  • Foreign minister to Czechs seeking “settled status” in UK: Time and reliable information are essential
    Czech citizens living in the UK have just over a year to register for
    “settled status” in order be allowed to remain resident in the country
    post-Brexit. Now, the coronavirus pandemic has thrown many people’s plans
    haywire. Many feel an urge to be with their families back home, others fear
    for their jobs which they considered secure just a few months ago. The
    Czech Foreign Ministry says that at this difficult time Czech expats in the
    UK need to consider their situation carefully and get information from
    reliable sources before coming to a decision. I spoke to Czech Foreign
    Minister Tomáš Petříček about the ministry’s efforts to assist them
    in this process.
    7 min
  • Prague Uprising - battle for Czech capital may have helped end war in Europe sooner
    The Prague Uprising, which took place during the last days of the Second
    World War, was arguably the largest Czech combat outing on the territory of
    their state in the twentieth century. The specific impact of the various
    forces which took part in it remains a subject of heated discussion until
    this day. Whatever their role, some historians believe that, had the Czechs
    not risen up, the war in Europe would have continued for 11 more days.
    10 min
  • Czech researchers testing wastewater for new coronavirus
    Czech researchers have started looking for traces of the coronavirus in
    wastewater. A laboratory in Brno is currently testing samples from two
    dozen wastewater plants around the Czech Republic. The monitoring could be
    used to reveal the scale of a coronavirus outbreak and also as an early
    warning of fresh outbreaks.
    4 min
  • Save the Beer initiative rescues hectolitres of craft beer from destruction
    Microbreweries are among the businesses hardest hit by the coronavirus
    lockdown in the Czech Republic. Due to the closure of restaurants, demand
    for their beer dropped significantly from one day to the next. To save
    hectolitres of craft beer from destruction, the owner of the Kytín brewery
    in Central Bohemia launched an initiative called Zachraň pivo or Save the
    Beer. It was promptly joined by over 300 microbreweries from the Czech
    Republic and Slovakia.
    4 min
  • Franz Kafka’s The Trial - ambiguous novel that asks deep metaphysical questions
    Written between 1914 and 1915, during one of Franz Kafka’s creative
    outbursts, The Trial revolves around the struggle of the main protagonist,
    Josef K., who finds himself suddenly arrested upon waking up one morning.
    As with much of Kafka’s work, the novel has been subject to much
    interpretation. In this episode of Czech Books You Must Read, we talk to
    Oxford University’s Taylor Professor of the German Language and
    Literature Ritchie Robertson and Professor Ricarda Schmidt from the
    University of Exeter about those interpretations, as well as the authors
    that inspired Kafka to write what is considered to be one of the best
    novels of the 20th century.
    16 min
  • Archaeologists discover secret passage in Milevsko monastery
    Archaeologists have made a unique discovery in the Milevsko monastery in
    South Bohemia. While creating a 3D scan of the monastery complex, they
    unearthed a secret corridor with an extended end hidden behind a massive
    medieval wall. It may have served as a safe for valuables concealed from
    raids by Hussite troops in the early 15th century.
    4 min
  • Project traces extensive correspondence of 17th century philosopher Jan Amos Comenius
    Researchers have made accessible nearly six hundred letters written or
    received by Jan Amos Komenský, or Comenius, the 17th century philosopher
    and thinker. The digitalisation and visualisation of Comenius’s
    correspondence was carried out by the Department for Comenius Studies and
    Early Modern Intellectual History of the Institute of Philosophy of the
    Czech Academy of Sciences as part of a larger project of Oxford University
    called Cultures of Knowledge.
    12 min

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