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  • Happy 2020 to Radio Prague International listeners the world over!
    As the year draws to a close all of us here at the English department of
    Radio Prague International would like to thank our devoted listeners the
    world over for their dedication to the station, for being with us and
    taking the time to drop us a line or write an email to share your views
    about what you found particularly interesting and what you’d like to hear
    more of on Radio Prague International.
    7 min
  • Adéla and Petr Mucha on Christianity, Christmas and the Underground Church under Communism
    Thirty years ago this Christmas, Czechs were in an especially festive
    spirit – the entire Communist Party leadership had resigned a month
    before, and in a matter of days a majority democratic parliament would
    elect Václav Havel as president, bringing the Velvet Revolution to a
    glorious end. Ahead of the holiday, I spoke to Adéla and Petr Mucha – a
    historian and theologian, respectively, born into practicing Catholic
    families under Communism – about their experiences with the
    “Underground Church”, religious figures active in the dissident Charter
    77 movement, and enduring legacies of the era.
    16 min
  • President Zeman uses Christmas message to warn against green ‘false prophets’
    In his traditional Christmas message to the nation, President Miloš Zeman
    began as usual on a positive note – highlighting the country’s economic
    successes – before turning to what he views as problematic areas. In a
    16-minute televised address otherwise void of religious symbolism, Zeman
    also branded himself a “climate heretic” and urged Czechs to think for
    themselves rather than follow “false prophets”.
    5 min
  • Czech Puppetry Alive And Well
    Puppet theater in Czechia and Slovakia is a way of conveying a vision of
    the world. That is one of the main reasons why UNESCO inscribed the art on
    its List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity three years ago.
    In the Christmas season, many a theater and community hall across the
    country is filled with young audiences out to enjoy holiday performances by
    professional as well as amateur companies.
    14 min
  • Christmas gingerbread from Pardubice
    Czech Christmas is unthinkable without a vast variety of cookies.
    Typically, Czech households start baking them at the beginning of the
    festive season so that they can stock up on them well ahead of the main
    holiday. Some of the cookies are for consumption, others are intended
    mainly as decorations for the Christmas tree. Vít Pohanka visited a
    Pardubice bakery to find out more about the latter:
    14 min
  • Czech-born video art pioneer Woody Vašulka dies at 82
    Woody Vašulka, one of the pioneers of electronic and video art, has died
    at the age of 82. The Czech-born artist, who had lived in the United States
    since the 1960s, inspired generations of video artists all around the
    world. Together with his wife Steina, he established the legendary art
    space The Kitchen in New York City, dedicated to electronic media of all
    sorts.
    4 min
  • Vánočka – a Christmas Eve sweetbread steeped in symbolism
    Christmas Eve is the most important festive day of the holiday according to
    Czech tradition. Although known as the “generous day” – Štědrý den
    – when it comes to food, one is meant to be quite modest. Few fast all
    day on December 24 but many do follow the Christian custom of eating
    meatless dishes for lunch that day, spruced up with a plaited Christmas
    sweetbread – vánočka.
    4 min
  • Jaroslav and Alžběta Hofrichter: the enduring power of love
    A few years ago I spent an unforgettable day with Jaroslav and Alžběta
    Hofrichter. It was 2013, Jaroslav was 93, Alžběta 91, and they were
    living in sheltered accommodation for Second World War veterans at
    Prague’s Military Hospital. I was there to hear their life story, a tale
    of courage, resilience, a touch of luck and, above all, of the enduring
    power of love. The Hofrichters were known by their many friends as the
    “turtledoves”. Having met them I could see why. If there is an elixir
    for a happy marriage, they had found it. Jaroslav spent four years serving
    in Britain’s Royal Air Force along with some 2,000 fellow Czechs and
    Slovaks, nearly a quarter of whom never came home. At the end of the war,
    he returned to Czechoslovakia as a hero, but before long, his record with
    the RAF became a thorn in the side of the new communist regime. For most of
    the next four decades he and his wife Alžběta were treated with constant
    suspicion. Here, in their own words, is the story of Jaroslav and Alžběta
    – or Elizabeth – Hofrichter, first broadcast in December 2013. Both
    have since died, but they are remembered with great fondness.
    21 min

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