This weekend we'll be celebrating 90 years since the first regular radio broadcasts in Czechoslovakia, and we'll be bringing you a special programme.

A new book of photographs of the late president Václav Havel, taken by the Czech News Agency photo reporters, was presented in Prague Wednesday.

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At just 13, Radomir Franz already knew he wanted to be a taxidermist. He credits a boyhood trip to a natural science museum with capturing his imagination. More than three decades later, he's one of central Europe's most sought-after experts in the field — and says he has stuffed animals from every country except, perhaps, Greenland.

The sixth edition of the annual Czech Beer Festival, serving more than 70 local brews, opens on Thursday.

The immortal love story of Prince Siegfried and the tender Princess Odette, who is turned into a swan by the evil sorcerer von Rothbart, is synonymous with classical ballet itself.

For singer Eva Miklas Takamine, who also has been head of the Czech Center in Tokyo since March, singing both Czech and Japanese songs is a way of expressing her identity.