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  • Vojtěch Merunka – Developer of Interslavic language spoken in The Painted Bird
    One of the most striking aspects of director Václav Marhoul’s new film
    The Painted Bird is the language spoken in it. The characters communicate
    in Interslavic, or Medžuslovjansky, an artificial language combining
    elements from several Slavic languages that fits with the WWII story’s
    unspecified Eastern European setting. Interslavic has in large part been
    developed by academic Dr. Vojtěch Merunka, who was closely involved in the
    movie. When we spoke, I first asked him about earlier attempts to create a
    Slavic lingua franca.
    15 min
  • Czech Radio survey: the life of the traditional working class
    An in-depth survey commissioned by Czech Radio suggests that Czech society
    is divided into six social classes that differ in terms of resources and
    status. The study defines two types of upper middle class, three types of
    lower middle class and an impoverished class. Czech Radio found a typical
    representative of each social class. Today we introduce a representative of
    the traditional working class.
    4 min
  • New book sheds light on the post-war hunt for Nazi war criminals in Czechoslovakia
    After the end of the Second World War it was often very difficult to catch
    and bring Nazi war criminals and their collaborators to justice. Historian
    Vojtěch Kyncl from the Czech Academy of Sciences has written a new book
    called Beasts: Czechoslovakia and the Prosecution of Nazi Criminals, which
    explores the Czechoslovak side of this endeavour. I began by asking him
    when the allies, including Czechoslovakia, first committed to bringing Nazi
    war criminals to justice.
    11 min
  • Czech Radio survey: The life of the wealthy upper middle class
    An in-depth survey commissioned by Czech Radio suggests that Czech society
    is divided into six social classes that differ in terms of resources and
    status. The study defines two types of upper middle class, three types of
    lower middle class and an impoverished class. Czech Radio found a typical
    representative of each social class. First we introduce a representative of
    the wealthy, upper middle class.
    0 min
  • King’s Singers launch annual music festival Lípa Musica
    The international music festival Lípa Musica got underway this week with a
    performance by the British vocal ensemble King’s Singers in the Hejnice
    Monastery in North Bohemia. Over the course of the next few weeks, the
    festival will offer over 20 performances both on the Czech and German side
    of the border.
    0 min
  • Klášterec nad Ohří – home of the famous Thun porcelain brand
    A rose-coloured porcelain cup and saucer made 225 years ago has pride of
    place at the Museum of Porcelain in Klášterec nad Ohří. It is the
    oldest preserved item which was made within a series of experiments in
    porcelain production in 1794. The other pieces fell apart, but the
    rose-coloured cup and saucer heralded hope for the future. Today the famous
    Thun brand of porcelain is exported to countries the world over.
    0 min
  • Divided by Freedom – Large-scale Czech Radio survey finds six social classes in Czech society
    What is the makeup of Czech society 30 years after the Velvet Revolution?
    That is the question which Czech Radio tried to answer by commissioning a
    large-scale sociological survey across the Czech Republic. The results show
    that rather than a simple division between the haves and have-nots, Czech
    society is made up of six social classes. One is quite unique in the
    European context.
    0 min
  • Cofounders of Laydeez do Comics’ Czech branch on gender, graphic novels, and pushing boundaries
    ‘Laydeez do Comics’ is an international organisation that promotes
    female comics artists and their work. I spoke with the co-founders of the
    Czech branch shortly after the publication of their new book Komiksodějky.
    This anthology of essays and interviews about the genre, its history and
    specific Czech development, features a wild, eclectic mix of comics and
    illustrations by local female comics authors, many of whom poke fun at
    stereotypes.
    0 min

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