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New exhibition celebrates the legacy of Czech inventor František Křižík, Suspected British spy and slave labourer gets royal honour: Jaroslav Peprník’s story, Cannafest takes place during first year home cannabis cultivation is legal in Czechia.

Czech astronaut Aleš Svoboda prepares for ISS mission, Foreign minister apologises after backlash over remarks about female hockey players, Bohemia versus Moravia

Lurdes Gloria Manuel named Czech Athlete of Year after dream season, New exhibition explores Jaroslav Čermák, the 19th-century Czech painter who made his name in Paris, Ostrava Zoo: home to 451 species, including some extinct in the wild

The Czech government's plan to abolish television and radio licence fees has sparked strikes at public-service broadcasters and protests in the streets of Prague. While Prime Minister Andrej Babiš insists that a new funding system can guarantee stable financing, critics fear that greater dependence on the state budget could undermine media independence. In this weekend edition of Czechia in 30 Minutes, Vít Pohanka speaks to demonstrators and brings you the views of government politicians and Czech Radio's Director General René Zavoral on a dispute that is far from over.

An exhibition in Prague looks at a now destroyed socialist-era sculpture; ex-US astronaut Andrew "Drew" Feustel discusses Czechia's contribution to space science and more.

News, Czechia receives rare books and publications from Czech-American communities abroad, more Czechs turning to AI for health advice -doctors ringing alrm bells.

News, battle over funding for Czech public broadcasters, the Czech who "helped save the internet" and Czechia’s unusual cargo for space.

Sports great Hašek demands laws to block Russian athletes, Czech military must prepare for prolonged war but lacks the funding and Egon Bondy’s 1970s novel Unsound Siblings gets English translation.

In this weekend edition of Czechia in 30 Minutes, we mark the anniversary of the founding of independent Czechoslovakia with President Petr Pavel's October 28 speech, presented in full in English translation. We then explore the question of Moravian identity: why do some people still identify strongly as Moravians, even though the historical border between Bohemia and Moravia has long since lost its administrative significance? Through conversations with ordinary people, a former Moravian political leader and a historian, we examine what it means to be Moravian in today's Czechia.

News, juvenile violence on the rise -schools strengthen crisis-response training, Kumar Vishwanathan on three decades of supporting Roma in Czechia