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The long-running tradition of premiere screenings of digitally restored Czech films continues at #KVIFF59 with ECCE HOMO HOMOLKA. Jaroslav Papoušek’s sarcastic 1969 comedy about the life of a multigenerational family has been called the final film of the Czechoslovak New Wave.

Helena Lukas is the daughter of the photographer Jan Lukas. When she was 16 the family escaped from Czechoslovakia and settled in New York, where they knew the likes of Jiří Voskovec and Ferdinand Peroutka. Our conversation covers a lot of ground. english.radio.cz/helena-lukas-p…

At least 9 people have been killed, more than 70 injured in an attack on Kyiv and Kharkiv.The Russians will not relent in their atrocities. The world must continue to help Ukraine. It is Russia that does not want a deal. And those who do not want peace will only understand force.

Oh man this is pathetic, a cringeworthy halfwitted line for the ages

Okamura's expression -- priceless!

🎉 We're proud to announce that our director marius dragomir has won the 2025 Karol Jakubowicz Award for his work on the Media Capture Monitoring Report! IPI - The Global Network for Independent Media journalismresearch.org/2025/04/marius…

Prague's most spectacular bakery and cafe, a new branch of Antonínovo pekařství on the corner of Francouzská and Náměstí Míru, opens tomorrow. And ahead of that occasion I did a wide-ranging and colourful interview with the man who started the chain. english.radio.cz/antonin-kokes-…

Allen Ginsberg was named “king of May” in Prague on this day in 1965, when 150,000 took part in May Day celebrations. The whole story, including his expulsion from communist 🇨🇿 days later, is recounted in this article, which I translated some years ago: ustrcr.cz/data/pdf/publi…

My phone thinks people are more likely to visit space than Spain. Bloody tech bros!

“We love journalism, we love freedom of speech” — the great Michael Stipe on why REM have released an alternate version of their first single Radio Free Europe in support of the actual Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.

. RIDE were just brilliant in Prague last night. The post-comeback stuff was really good and all the old classics were out of this world. And I got to meet lovely bassist SteveQ, who I worked with in a music shop in Oxford in summer ‘89, after a gap of about 33 years!

This is great — a member of the team at top Czech production company Gen Live put a mic on Communist Party leader Konečná… while wearing a T-shirt of Miladá Horáková, “murdered by Communists”!

Volodymyr Zelensky and his wife Olena are in Prague! The couple will take part in events in the city this afternoon, with Prague Castle closed off for their visit.

Together with the First Lady, we have arrived in the Czech Republic on an official visit. Meetings are scheduled with President Petr Pavel and Prime Minister Petr Fiala, with the heads of the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate, leaders of parliamentary factions, as well as with

Czech President Petr Pavel welcoming Ukraine’s leader Volodymyr Zelensky and his wife Olena at Prague Castle today — you like to see it!

Very interesting perspective on Edvard Beneš – certainly food for thought.