14.03.2010 - Alchemy and wife swapping in Renaissance Bohemia
The philosopher, scientist and mystic, John Dee, was one of the great figures of Elizabethan England. He was a close confidante of the Queen and one of the founders of modern science, at a time of transition from the medieval to the modern age – a time when science and alchemy, magic and mathematics intertwined...
14.03.2010 - Mailbox
This week in Mailbox: The first Bohemian chronicler Cosmas, listening to Radio Prague on smart phones, listening in the Czech Republic, a comment on the reduction of the number of winners each month, saving wild animals in the Czech Republic. Listeners quoted: Joe T...
14.03.2010 - Is a president allowed to slouch?
Last weekend Czechs marked the 160th anniversary of the birth of the co-founder of Czechoslovakia and the country’s first president T.G...