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Climate Week Prague puts climate change into everyday terms, Czech government declares war on illegal kratom sales, Neil Bermel on the future of Czech studies

Historian Cynthia Paces on Prague over the last millennium

Historian Cynthia Paces on Prague over the last millennium

Czech Pavel Hlava on capturing unique images of 9/11, Could climate change threaten the quality of Czech beer? Inside Phonopolis, the striking new game from Amanita Design

News, Hazardous chemicals in Sumava National Park, Czech classic Valerie and her Week of Wonders screened in Venice

Broadcast in English - 09/05/2026

Lost play by Václav Havel, Czech lace inspires new Žižkov mural, Václav Bartuška, Czechia’s ambassador to the UK

Czech demographic paradox and schools, getting kids to walk to school, Neil Bermel interview

PM Babiš on Invalidovna overhaul: “It’s a great project”, Returns to Brno: ŠTETL FEST revives the city’s Jewish stories, Secret Soviet bunker built to survive a nuclear blast opens to visitors in Czechia

Liberec sea lion dies after swallowing toy, Rohan Island plant could become urban farm, Can Kingdom Come teach history?, TerraDrought: global real-time drought tool

Czech film selected for 2027 Academy Awards, efforts to save critically endangered “glacial” plant, Ester Geislerová interview

Kryl inspiring statue returns, Romany anthology for Frankfurt, Prague new circus fest

Jan Svěrák’s comedy Five Plums to hit UK cinemas under the title What a Way to Go, Pat and Mat turn 50: Czechia’s clumsy handymen take DIY chaos worldwide, Inside Prague's summer school of Czech

RPI history series Part 6

TrutnOFF Open Air celebrates its “tribal chief” Václav Havel, Wild boars are increasingly venturing into urban areas, drawn by food and safety, Miss Czech Republic on her Japanese and Moravian identity, beauty and Miss Universe

Czechs enthusiastic stargazers,Czech communities troubled by drying wells and dwindling groundwater, Jewish book collection

Czech farmers change crops as weather shifts, Secret Soviet bunker opens, Jiřina Šiklová Library, Prague summer Czech school

Charles University seeks global science leader for new Prague Biocenter, Brno scientists chase total solar eclipse to Iceland and Spain, Keeping Czech alive abroad: How Krajánek ve světe helps children stay close to their roots

Czechia bids to host one of Europe’s giant AI Gigafactories, Hantec added to South Moravian folk culture list, Who is the greatest queer Czech?, Who reads what?

Series on the 90-year-long history of RPI Part 5

Time capsule beneath Wenceslas Square, Survey highlights unknown chapters of Czech queer history, Prague exhibition highlights artistic value of historic writing tools

Shortage of breast cancer drug in Czechia triggers emergency measures, Czech film Volklore wins Student Academy Award, Prague’s Little Hanoi

Czechia is Europe's fastest-growing tourism destination, Villa Tugendhat marks 25 years on the UNESCO World Heritage List, Summer School of Slavonic Studies

Why drought is unlikely to shut down Czech nuclear power plants, Czech goalie Horníček joins Newcastle in €30 million transfer, Inside Phonopolis, Amanita Design's new game

Prague Pride kicks off, Czech Centres overhaul, 700-year-old statue undergoes tomography at a Brno hospital

Series on the 90-year-long history of RPI Part 4

Government plan to loosen fiscal rules threatens public finances, České Budějovice hospital becomes first in Czechia to use AI in brain surgery, Prague launches cooling map to help residents beat the heat

Glen Hansard mourned by many in Czechia, Why do Czechs stay put? The surprising truth about labour Mobility, Jiřina Šiklová Library: A hidden feminist gem in Prague

Charles Bridge repairs, CzechBusiness announced, Odyssey keeps IMAX busy

Radicalisation warning, historic store restored, artistic value of writing instruments

Czech Fluxus artist, musician and ex-National Gallery chief Milan Knížák dies at 86, Remembering Pavel Jungwirth, the world-class chemist whose excitement was infectious, Who reads what? The surprising patterns hidden in 17 million library loans

Progress in artificial joint replacement, 2026/2027 season in Czech football kicks off, interview with climber František D'Agostino

President vetoes budget reform rules, designer Pavel Fuksa, Miss Czech Republic

Gov backs mobile phone ban in schools, future of Vaclav Havel Library at stake, interview with linguist Neil Bermel.

Series on the history of RPI -part 2

Broadcast in English - 07/17/2026

Prague Castle opens new Czech design shop amid changes under President Pavel, Recreational boating booming in Czechia, Wimbledon champion Linda Nosková for RPI: I want to enjoy my time on court

Fruit Gathering wins top prize while Juliette Binoche honoured at Karlovy Vary, Linda Nosková and Karolína Muchová reflect on historic Czech Wimbledon final, Turning the tide: How man-made forest ponds are bringing water back to the landscape

What do you call an all-Czech Grandslam final? A Czech-mate!, Should Czechia lower the age of criminal responsibility? New report highlights rise in violent crime, 1940s coal plant comes alive as Street Art Festival transforms unusual Olomouc landmark

Czechs to join PURL initiative, historic Prague tower taken off the market, Šumperák houses

NATO summit to test Czech defence spending pledge, Brno-made drug detector could transform police work, Anna Schinz on A Happy Family

The executions of 1621: how one morning changed Bohemia forever

Rediscovering Jan Hus: Beyond the myths and legends, Turning the tide: How man-made forest ponds are bringing water back to the landscape, Why study Czech today? Neil Bermel on language, translation and the future of Czech studies

Karlovy Vary to celebrate landmark(s) in style, What's killing Czechia's fish?, Exhibition spotlights second-generation Vietnamese Czechs

Is 41.9 degrees Celsius the new normal for Czech summers? Record temperatures in Czechia prompt calls for summer protection of homeless, Prague Zoo welcomes great-grandson of sea lion Gaston, Prague exhibition revisits the legacy of Vojta Náprstek

NATO summit row, Prague's CAMP closes for renovation, KoresponDance festival

Why Czechia failed at the World Cup, elephant Hansken returns to Czechia after 400 years, Evie Harbury on the magic of Czech cuisine

Pavel-Babiš clash over NATO summit heads to Constitutional Court, From silent films to Hollywood: St. Vitus Cathedral shines on the silver screen for almost a century, Prague’s Jewish Quarter: small district with big history

Broadcast in English - 06/22/2026

Prague Defenestration: the day councillors flew from windows

Metronome festival celebrates 10th year at new venue , Inside Prague’s Clementinum Observatory, Auschwitz Museum unveils Alfred Kantor’s extraordinary Holocaust sketchbook

Prague’s Jiřího z Poděbrad Square reopens, Troja Festival, Czech climber František D'Agostino

Government tightenes drug policy, Zdena Mašínová obituary, Victoriia Kralko, author of audio series Hovory

Lidice lives on in memory, the surprising patterns hidden in 17 million library loans, Prague approves plan paving way for massive number of new flats

News, Czech astronaut to fly to ISS, Czechs and FIFA, Czech linguists recording stories of El Salvador's Nahuat Pipil, Prague's new development plan

News, Czech priests executed by communists beatified, Vamberk bobbin lace first Czech craft to receive European protected status.Vojtech Naprstek exhibition

The bloody end of the Vršovci: a medieval purge that shaped Bohemia

Václav Havel Library loses co-founder Dagmar Havlová, ČEZ moves towards state ownership, rare hawk eagle hatches at Czech zoo, Holešovická tržnice

Black-clad broadcasters warn funding reform could threaten media independence, Closely Watched Trains turns 60, Amanita Design's Phonopolis

Prague approves new zoning plan, Jakub Menšík storms into Roland Garros semifinals, Mucha poster collection on display, Czech Academy of Sciences' song archive

From Czechia to Myanmar: Karlovy Vary unveils 2026 Crystal Globe competition line-up, Survey finds widespread experience of teacher-student relationships in Czechia, Stalin in Prague: A symbol of electronic music and free spirit

Czech hero honoured in Spain, system to help prisoners, New Czech dementia test

The massacre that helped create the Czech state? The bloody fate of the Slavníkovci

Night of Churches invites to explore and reflect all across Czechia, New gold coin celebrating Plzeň, Jan Zikmund on bringing today’s Czech writers to the world

Petřín funicular cars unveiled, Prague garden opens to public, eels saved

FM addresses UN Security Council, Czech Senate turns 30, Folimanka Park

Richard Falbr, former union leader and politician, dies at 85, Child dies of diphtheria in Czechia, prompting renewed calls for timely vaccination, Klánovice Forest

Prague Sounds line-up, Belvedere reconstruction, Sudeten German gathering in Brno

Blood in Bohemia: the dark story behind the murder of Saint Wenceslas

Nanoplastics penetrate the lungs’ protective barrier: "We have no way to eliminate them," scientists warn, “Brits and Czechs have a lot of shared DNA,” says Ambassador Matt Field at launch of new book, Štvanice: Prague crossroads of history and sports

Fragile Security conference: Ukraine war defining security challenge of our time, About half of the domestic harvest destroyed by spring frost, This year’s Open House Prague to highlight urban transformation through sites such as Bubny Station

Czechia to receive American doctor exposed to ebola, new plaques at Old Jewish Cemetery, Czechia popular conference destination

“Father of detox” Jaroslav Skála began helping people sober up in Prague 75 years ago, Lynx Bardi crosses Czechia from south to north in record-breaking journey, Jules Verne’s dream machine takes flight in Czech record-breaking replica

News, Globsec conference in Prague, Saint Zdislava's skull saved, new gallery space in Prague

Broadcast in English - 05/16/2026

Czech Radio Plus conference to spotlight Ukraine’s future and Europe’s defence strategy, Who is turning 100 and still making children laugh? Meet Hurvínek, Prague Fringe at 25: Steve Gove and Angus Coull on turning an idea into a leading fringe festival

Daniel Žižka takes Eurovision stage with Crossroads, Popular Czech bedtime story character Maxipes Fík turns 50, Baba, Prague’s modernist plateau

Pundit on Sudetens "controversy", skull theft curse warning, Book World Prague head

Wolfgang Beltracchi exhibition, new app helping adapt to climate change, Šumperaky houses

Slavia fan on shocking derby scenes, Czech-Italian Nico Moro sets off on another epic walk for a cause, Interview with Prague Spring artistic director Josef Třeštík

Looking at Czechia's communist legacy

Fighting the Nazis with humour: wartime broadcasts by the legendary Voskovec and Werich

Tens of thousands rally in Prague in support of public media, Prague fossil discovery, British Ambassador Matt Field on Czechia, Ukraine and role of public media

Prague Uprising remembered at Czech Radio, Anifilm at 25: myths, Japanese animation highlights, and Prince of Persia creator, Interview with linguist Julie Sedivy

Broadcast in English - 05/02/2026

News, Peter Sís stamp, drought threatening harvest, trip toTelč

News, kratom intoxications on the rise, Baroque Štiřín Chateau still unsold

Broadcast in English - 01/08/2026