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Celebrations of the anniversary of the Velvet Revolution will be largely moving online and broadcast over Czech Television this year due to the coronavirus situation.

Jara Dušátko has been teaching Czech for over two decades at Stanford University in California and is also president of the San Francisco branch of Sokol, the Czech gymnastics and sports organisation. Recently she was honoured by the Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

On November 8, 1620, a major clash took place outside Prague between the Imperial Army of Emperor Ferdinand II. and those of the Bohemian Revolt. To find out more about the battle's significance Radio Prague spoke to Peter H. Wilson, Oxford University's Chichele Professor of the History of War, who is one of the foremost specialists on the Thirty Years War era.

Tereza Rosalie Kladošová is one of the Czech Republic’s top young fashion designers. Last year the designer, who is in her mid 30s, took the overall prize in the prestigious Czech Grand Design awards. In this entertaining, informal interview, Tereza Rosalie Kladošová discusses her DIY aesthetic, her love of home crafts – and a whole lot more.