Slovakia Today, English Language Current Affairs Programme from Slovak Radio

News and Topical Issue. Hans Broos was a Slovakia born architect who moved to Brasil and bacame one of the top Brasilian architects. In the feature, you will hear an interview with Slovak film director Ladislav Kaboš who has recently made a documentary called Architect of brutal poetics (Architekt drsnej poetiky) about life and work of Hans Broos. Then you will hear a rerun of an interview with Zuzana Bieliková from Slovak Film Commission with whom we discussed sustainability and ecological principles in Slovak films.

News and Topical Issue. Since this is a rerun of our Sunday show, which premiered on 26 September, a part of today’s show is dedicated to your letters. Nevertheless, you will also hear great Slovak music, an interview with Slovak Singer Nina Rosa, and a discussion about Slovak folk songs and dances.

A special exhibition playing with the importance of potatoes in Slovak regions will close soon in the northern Slovak very colourful village of Važec. From 2021, 12th October is celebrated as a memorial day in Slovakia being dedicated to literature fighting for basic human rights.

On the Wednesday programming we discuss the Slovak take, but more importantly the takeaway from the Czech Republic's recently held general election. Afterwards we browse through the newly launched map of the U.S. – Slovak cooperation in the spheres of education and research.

For decades, astronomers wanting to use their high-powered telescopes to peer up into the night sky have had to deal with the problem of so-called ‘light pollution’, mainly from artificial city lights getting in the way of their observations. In recent years, however, a different source of light pollution has become more and more of a problem for them – the fast-growing number of space satellites orbiting the earth. Moreover it’s a problem that will soon get much worse, with companies like SpaceX and Amazon now planning to launch tens of thousands of communication satellites in the coming years. Jonathan talks with physicist and light pollution expert František Kundracik about this growing problem.

News and Topical Issue: In the first part of todays show we are going to discuss Slovak product design with Slovak Design Centre director Maros Schmidt. The interview was created on the occasion of Slovak Design Award 2021. Then you will hear an interview with film director Jakub Cibik with whom we discussed his latest film White Carpathians Fruit Treasure.

Interior, Health and Justice Ministries join forces to protect healthcare workers, who have been facing threats from the opposers of vaccination. This autumn, new and quite unique central bus station opened in Bratislava.

Slovak director and producer Peter Kerekes spent six years visiting and filming in a Ukrainian women's prison. The movie received recognition at the Venice International Film Festival.

October is known also as the month of respect for the elderly. On the show today we will speak to a social anthropologist Ľubica Volanská about the position of seniors in Slovak society. We talk also about projects that can actively involve seniors in social life, whether it is participation in public policies or intergenerational cultural events, such as the Old's Cool festival. Later we will rerun the 9th round of "Once there was a castle..." competition, when we take you to the Beckov castle.

These days many Slovak parents are living outside of Slovakia and bemoan the fact that their children neither speak their mother-tongue nor understand their culture. Slovak parents in Great Britain, however, have come together to solve this problem by providing something extra for their children - something they can only provide as volunteers working together as a group. Could space satellites be the answer to the future of high-speed global internet connectivity? We talk with an expert at the Vytah Space Conference which took place in Bratislava in March. (Repeat)