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- Senate rejects bill giving more powers to Supreme Audit Office
- Finance minister continues to top popularity ladder
- Anthropoid to open Karlovy Vary International Film Festival
Current Affairs
Failure of smoking ban bill sparks coalition war of words
Photo: Filip Jandourek
The latest failed attempt to ban smoking in Czech pubs and restaurants has left the country’s government looking distinctly shaky. Since Wednesday’s lower house vote coalition partners ANO and the Social Democrats have each been blaming the other for the collapse of the much-discussed bill. More
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Prague Fringe Festival launches with ‘cream of the crop’
One of the biggest events of the English-language cultural calendar in
Prague starts on Friday. For those not in the know – that’s the Prague
Fringe Festival – and it continues for a whole nine days.
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Marketplace
Czech Green groups say lawmakers preparing to sacrifice arable land for development
In the words of Mark Twain, you should buy up land because they ain’t
producing it any more. One might quibble with the accuracy of that
statement then and now, because as the Dutch have amply proved land can be
reclaimed. But the message, especially for the landlocked Czech Republic,
holds good.
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Sports News
Sports News
In Sports News this Monday: Footballers assemble ahead of Euro 2016 –
Vrba looks forward to rare period of prolonged training;
champions Plzeň to replace boss Krejčí with Pivarník; Hradec Králové
and Karviná win promotion; Czech swimmers leave London empty-handed; and
Šafářová and Kvitová advance to second round at Roland Garros. More
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Czech Books
Recording the Past: Miloslav Disman’s Prague Speaks
One of the familiar voices that will forever be associated with
Czechoslovak Radio belongs to Miloslav Disman, who worked here between 1930
and 1973, and who changed the style of radio broadcasting in this country,
with such informal programmes as Okénko (which you just heard a snippet
of), and through a radio children’s ensemble, which bears his name to
this day.
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Mailbox
Mailbox
Today in Mailbox: The young Czech author Kateřina Tučková, comments on
the proposed new name of the country, Radio Prague's 2016 QSL cards,
mystery Czech quiz. Listeners/readers quoted: Jane E. Vsetula, Robert
Tománek, Hans Verner Lollike, Li Ming, Jayanta Chakrabarty, Radhakrishna
Pillai.
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Sections
Business
Plzeňský Prazdroj up for sale as price of InBev deal
Czech brewing jewel Plzeňský Prazdroj is going up for sale. That’s the
result of the go ahead from the European Commission to the massive
worldwide beer deal under which global market leader InBev acquires its
nearest rival SABMiller. Plzeňský Prazdroj...
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Rusnok named new governor of Czech National Bank
Former interim prime minister Jiří Rusnok was named as new governor of
the Czech National Bank on Wednesday at Prague Castle. Rusnok, an economist
who also served as finance minister and minister of industry and trade and
is a friend of President Miloš...
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Topics
Sunday Music Show
Folk musical about robber bandit steals Czech hearts
Hello and welcome to Radio Prague with me Ruth Fraňková. In today’s
Sunday Music Show we look at a famous Czech musical film called Balada pro
Banditu or Ballad for a Bandit. Shot in 1978, the “folk musical” about
the famous Carpathian outlaw features...
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Travel Tip
Czech Canada - a vast, barren landscape in miniature
Czech Canada is the name of an area in south-eastern Bohemia within the
Jindřichův Hradec region. Spanning around 250 square kilometres, it is
characterized by a terrain of gently rolling hills, pine forests, and an
atmosphere of infinite vastness and...
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Arts
New Orleans-based pianist Sullivan Fortner talks jazz ahead of American Spring Music Festival
Sullivan Fortner is an immensely talented pianist who has been getting
plenty of attention on the jazz scene with numerous live performances and
with his successful debut Aria on Impulse. This summer he will be
performing at the Newport Jazz Festival;...
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Panorama
Pivο: Brewing it Czech style in divided Nicosia
Sunday’s parliamentary elections, ongoing negotiations over a
reunification of the divided island – and maybe football: these are some
of the main topics discussed in the garden of the Pivo "πίβο"
Microbrewery, recently opened in the heart of Nicosia,...
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