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Petra Hůlová: A child's mixed memories of the grown-ups' revolution

Radio Prague |
26 October 2009
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The young Czech novelist is putting the finishing touches on her new novel spanning the years just before and after Czechoslovakia's Velvet Revolution. Her debut novel of life in contemporary Mongolia is now available in English under the title All This Belongs to Me.

Prague's velvet and steel, 20 years later

The Philadelphia Inquirer |
26 October 2009
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The ills of capitalism are apparent. But though communism is gone, its brutality isn't forgotten.

Feels like walking under broken glass

Prague Post |
23 October 2009
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Prague's historic glass mosaics are in decline and need restoration.

The new frontier

Prague Post |
23 October 2009
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Digital projecting technology opens possibilities for stargazers at Prague Planetarium.

No more borders for collies: changing canine lifestyles after 1989

Radio Prague |
23 October 2009
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In the early 1990s it wasn’t just political change that was on Radio Prague’s agenda. In many ways the social changes under way at the time were just as radical.

The four corners of the Czech Republic: Zaolzie

Radio Prague |
22 October 2009
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The location of the Czech-Polish-Slovak tri-border can be described in a number of ways. Geographically, it’s in the Beskydy mountain range. Politically, it's Silesia, the oft-forgotten "third" region of the Czech Republic, a strip of mixed Czech, Polish, German and Jewish heritage straddling the north-east border.

Biking around Břeclav

The Journeys of Captain Oddsocks |
21 October 2009
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For most travellers, Břeclav is one of those places like Kolín or Přerov that you pass through dozens of times without ever getting off the train.

The past, present and future of Banská Štiavnica

By Günter Bartoš | Prague Daily Monitor |
30 Oct 2009

A former mining town struggles to find a new identity.

The cars they left behind

By Pavel Baroch | aktuálně.cz |
26 Oct 2009

What became of the thousands of vehicles abandoned by East Germans fleeing Communist Czechoslovakia?

Aleš Rumpel, head of the Mezipatra Queer Film Festival

By Jan Richter | Radio Prague |
20 October 2009
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This autumn, the Mezipatra Queer Film Festival will celebrate 10 years of showing gay- and lesbian-themed films. Radio Prague chats with festival director Aleš Rumpel.
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