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October 1526: First Prague-Vienna mail route established
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Briton @LukeDaleLive first came to Prague as an actor in Kingdom Come: Deliverance, a video game set in Bohemia in the early 1400s that became a major international hit. Dale has since moved to the city, where he recently opened the restaurant Nobleman.
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Unsound Siblings: 1970s Egon Bondy novel gets English translation
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The Foreign Ministry has presented its annual Gratias Agit Awards to Czechs and foreigners for promoting the good name of Czechia abroad. This year, 12 personalities and one organisation received the awards.
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Last week the Prague-based Pavel Haas Quartet picked up a prestigious Gramophone award for the album Martinů: String Quartets Nos 2, 3, 5, 7. We discussed their latest success with cellist Peter Jarůšek.
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Two 355-metre-high radio transmitter towers in Central Bohemia were demolished on Thursday. For nearly 50 years, the towers, which were 120 metres apart, had been the tallest structures in the country.
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Czechs are among the leading nations in Europe when it comes to growing food at home. Indeed, one survey found that no less than 70 percent of Czechs cultivate their own fruit and veg. But why is this practice so common?
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What Czechia’s local election results mean for Andrej Babiš’s government
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President Petr Pavel has come in for criticism after his office announced that he will not vote in local elections because he is on a private holiday. Czech heads of state almost always take part in elections, so is his decision a political misstep?
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A new book by the late Czech writer Ivan Klíma has just been published, almost 25 years after he wrote it. His family only discovered the manuscript after his death.
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Radka Denemarková has delivered a forceful defence of literature as a moral and political force at the Frankfurt Book Fair. The Czech writer warned of the rise of authoritarianism, nationalism and the manipulation of language.
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Forty editors-in-chief from across the Czech media have issued a joint appeal to the country’s politicians. They are calling on them to reject violence and threats against journalists and to guarantee equal access to information from public institutions.
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Radio Prague International retweeted
Before I began our interview for @CRozhlas, I wanted to tell President @BillClinton that, knowing Václav Havel, I was sure he would have been very proud that his close friend, a politician he admired, chose to spend time talking about him on his special day.
But to my surprise, he thanked me for giving him the chance to remember his friend. And that is how our interview began: Bill Clinton thanking me. I still haven't recovered! 😉
"Well, thank you for giving me a chance to relive my relationship with one of the most interesting people I ever met. I just wish he were still here. We could use him today, I'll tell you that."
Full interview in English, with audio, right here @RadioPrague ⬇️⬇️ english.radio.cz/bill-clinto…
Czech Radio's US correspondent @janacigler interviewed former President @BillClinton at some length about his old friend Václav Havel, and their whole conversation can be listened to and read here. ⬇️
@CRozhlas @Radiozurnal1
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Václav Havel would have turned 90 on October 5. Politician and diplomat @AlexandrVondra first encountered him as a young underground publisher in communist Czechoslovakia and later became one of his closest collaborators and his foreign-policy adviser.
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Radio Prague International retweeted
Václav Havel believed that truth was better than fear, freedom was worth fighting for, and Europe’s future belonged to everyone. He devoted his life to those convictions and helped change the course of history.
On what would have been his 90th birthday, I’m remembering my friend with gratitude for his courage, his love of our common humanity, and the work we did together to bring the Czech Republic into NATO and build a Europe no longer divided.
We also shared a love of music. So today, I’m playing a few notes in his honor. Happy birthday, my friend. The world could use more of your spirit.
“Happy birthday, friend.” A very special message that President @BillClinton recorded after speaking to Czech Radio/@CRozhlas about Václav Havel, in connection with the 90th anniversary of the Czech democracy's leader birth.
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“I don't know that I enjoyed being with anybody in politics more than him. He and I were friends." Former US President @BillClinton remembers Czech democracy leader Vaclav Havel, born 90 years ago OTD, in an interview for @janacigler of @CRozhlas.
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“I don't know that I enjoyed being with anybody in politics more than him. He and I were friends." Former US President @BillClinton remembers Czech democracy leader Vaclav Havel, born 90 years ago OTD, in an interview for @janacigler of @CRozhlas.
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Jaroslav Ježek is a prominent 20th century Czech composer, pianist and conductor whose music became an inseparable part of the Liberated Theatre of Jiří Voskovec and Jan Werich.
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