Slovakia Today, English Language Current Affairs Programme from Slovak Radio

Slovakia has qualified for the UEFA Euro 2024 football tournament! Not just that, but they are going into the tournament looking to make a splash and suprise people. Ben Pascoe talks with former team captain Martin Skrtel and football commentator Martin Kaigl about what has led to this success and what we can look forward to.

In this show, Patrícia Arpášová talks to psychologist Slavomíra Trebuňáková about stress, its symptoms and what can help stressed people. We will provide travelling news and tips for trips around Slovakia. At the end of our show, we will continue with our Monday bonus feature called TOP SPOT.

Ben and Patka visit the gallery in the upside down pyramid, read letters from listeners and play some music for you.

Artist Maureen Shea talks about her residency in Slovakia, the homecountry of her grandparents. Late musician Igor Bazlik composed 2000 easy listening songs. Culture news feature Daniel Raiskin, the chief conductor of the Slovak Philharmonic, inviting to their concerts in South Korea.

Interview with Martina Horňáková about Slovak and Romani linguistics and phraseology. Cultural and academic tips for events in middle and eastern Slovakia.

Ben Pascoe sits down with historian Julia Itin to talk about her new book which looks at the tiles found all around Bratislava and what they teach us about the history of Bratislava.

Eastern Slovakia was struck by an earthquake at the beginning of October 2023. In this show, we will talk about earthquakes in the area of Slovakia with seismologist and Professor Peter Moczo as well as with eyewitnesses of the mentioned earthquake in 2023. We will provide travelling news and tips for trips around Slovakia. At the end of our show, we announce the beginning of our Monday bonus feature called TOP SPOT.

A phone call linking Bratislava with Prague on the occasion of the 34th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution opens a special program in which Martina, Ben and Martin are discussing not only the change of the communist regime in former Czechoslovakia but also revolutionary events in personal lives of listeners of Radio Slovakia International.

Inviting to the festival of queer films in Bratislava through their feature film "We have never been modern" are director Matej Chlupacek and script writer Miro Sifra. "Slovak namedays" series present some of the most familiar Martins in this country. Culture tips of this week feature Dosky, the critics award for the top theatre production of the last season.

An interview with two foreigners, Richard Swales and James Stevko, about their experiences with Slovak citizenship. Richard, from the UK, acquired citizenship after 17 years of living in Slovakia. James from America is applying for citizenship based on his ancestry.