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- Žatec: Czech town providing perfect location for major productions including JoJo RabbitThe Czech town of Žatec is best-known for its exceptional hops. But inrecent years it has also been the setting for many Hollywood productions,including the movies The Zookeeper’s Wife and JoJo Rabbit, which won anOscar earlier this month.5 min
- 26 Feb 1990: Soviet troops begin pulling out of Czechoslovakia, decades after a ‘temporary deployment’Exactly thirty years ago, Václav Havel was in Moscow meeting with MikhailGorbachev, and the pact on the total withdrawal of Soviet troops fromCzechoslovakia was signed. That very day, the first soldiers began pullingout, as a brass band struck up the “Internationale”, while outside thegarrison gates locals bid them a less-than-fond farewell.4 min
- The girl who speaks 17 foreign languages: I see languages as music and coloursEva Spekhorstova has a passion for languages. At the age of 15 she alreadyspeaks 17 languages and has an insatiable thirst to learn more as differentcultures open up to her. When she visited Radio Prague’s studio we spokeabout what attracts her to foreign languages, how she goes about learningthem and how different languages relate to her emotions. I began by askingher at what age she first started learning foreign languages.16 min
- David Černý’s “locomotive bridge” to connect two Prague buildingsA bridge in the form of a locomotive crashing from one building to anotheris the latest project by Czech artist David Černý, known for the blacksculptures of babies crawling up Žižkov’s TV Tower or a statue of St.Wenceslas riding a dead horse in Prague’s Lucerna passage. The design ofthe bridge was inspired by a real incident -the derailment of a train inParis in 1895.4 min
- Czech Republic’s first state of emergency exercise to focus on hybrid warfare threatsThis March, the Czech Republic will go ahead with its first state ofemergency drill. The exercise, called Defence 2020, will primarily test thecountry’s capacity to react in case of the onset of hybrid warfare.4 min
- Czech biochemist involved in developing potential coronavirus treatmentAs the new COVID-19 coronavirus spreads from China to countries around theworld, scientists are intensifying efforts to produce an effective cure.Among the most promising drugs so far is Remdesivir, which was originallydeveloped to fight the Ebola virus. One of the people behind itsdevelopment is the Czech biochemist Tomáš Cihlář.4 min
- “A puppet in some monstrous play” – Josef Toufar’s cruel fate recalled 70 years laterThe history of the Communist-era is filled with tales of martyrs, but fewof them are as well-known and distressing as the story of Father JosefToufar, who died on February 25, 1950. When a miracle was reported at hischurch in an eastern Bohemian village, the secret police tortured thepriest mercilessly – and forced him to take part in a macabre video“re-enactment”.5 min
- New Czech documentary shines light on online child abuseA hotly anticipated Czech documentary highlighting the danger posed byonline predators premieres in Prague on Tuesday. Presenting over-18actresses as 12-year-olds on fake social media profiles, Caught in the Netexposes a disturbing phenomenon – and has already led to police action.5 min
- Eda Kriseová – Part 1: I understood the meaning of normalisation at Jan Zajíc’s funeralWhen Eda Kriseová was barred from journalism after the 1968 Soviet-ledinvasion she chose an unlikely escape from the grim reality of that time:voluntary work at an isolated mental hospital. She also wrote in samizdat,which led to her gradually becoming part of Czechoslovakia’santi-Communist dissent. As we will hear, Kriseová – whose husband isfilmmaker Josef Platz – found novel ways to resist secret policepressure. But the first part of this two-part interview begins with theauthor’s early days.14 min
- Czech debate about Red Army monumentsMonuments to the Soviet Red Army, which were part of the townscape for manyyears, now find themselves at the centre of a fierce, protracted debatewhich appears to be gathering momentum. The Prague 6 district authoritiesrecently decided to remove a statue of the controversial Soviet MarshalIvan Koněv, from their premises, but an important thoroughfare in anotherpart of Prague still bears his name.13 min
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