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Gratifying to this week’s SoundCzech, which this week sounds deficient Czech add-on further German. This interval we are farewell to endure looking at German contents that are usually scruffy up-to-date Czech, with the addition of to happen a universal instance, I’ve elect the tune “Ksicht” by means of the well-known ska cast Sto zví?at (“100 Animals”).

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Today in Mailbox: driving habits in the Czech Republic, response to Letterfrom Prague, the “Forward Left” signature tune. Listeners quoted: ColinRose, Charlie Cockey, Andrea Lazzeri. Welcome to Mailbox, Radio Prague’s listeners’ feedback programme.Let’s take a look at your e-mails that we received over the past week.Colin Rose follows our programmes both in the UK and in the CzechRepublic. A recent Talking Point titled “What is to be done to make Czechroads safer?” inspired him to write in:“I drive for three months of the year in Czech Republic and find thestandard of driving appalling. In Prague it is bad but probably no worsethan in many other cities. Elsewhere is the biggest problem. Overtaking isa national pastime. The preferred place is the brow of a hill or a blindbend; the purpose is to get in front. When achieved you then slow down tostop the car behind getting in front again. Headlights are an incentive forsuch dangerous action, maybe it makes the driver feel he is now an officialin a position to scare others off the road (I do remember seeing this inthe ‘previous’ times when two spotlights were the sign ofofficialdom).”On a happier note, our listener Charlie Cockey from Brno enjoyed lastSunday’s Letter from Prague by Christian Falvey: “Just a short note to say bravo for a delightful piece on the haplessFinn’s unfortunate experiences during his hostel stay in Prague. They saythat humor and misfortune go hand in hand, but it requires a sure hand inthe telling to raise a series of misfortunes such as these from thepathetic to the hilarious - hilarious to all except of course the poor,and eventually besotted Finn. Humor is NOT easy to write, and Mr Falvey hasmanaged it in high fashion - so, once again, Bravo! I’m still laughing- or, as I like to say, ‘Charlie chuckles’…”And if you missed that particular Letter from Prague, you can go back toit on our website at
www.radio.cz/english and click Letter from Prague in the menu on the left hand side.Andrea Lazzeri writes from the Italian city of Pisa:“From the ’70s to 1989 I used to listen the Italian Service of RadioPrague. I was very familiar with its tuning signal. From your website Iknow that this signature tune was the ‘Forward Left’ anthem. Can youtell me more about it (full title, author) or give me directions where tofind more information?” The song “Kup?™edu lev??” or “Forward Left”, celebrating thecommunist takeover of 1948, was composed by Jan Seidel and the lyrics werewritten by Bed?™ich Bobek. Jan Seidel was born just over a hundred yearsago, on December 25, 1908 in the central Bohemian town of Nymburk where hestudied high school. He went on to study civil engineering, architecture,fine arts and later composition at Prague’s conservatory under JosefBohuslav Foerster and Alois H??ba. Among his works are a number of songscelebrating the communist regime but also the score to the film version ofThe Good Soldier ? vejk. He was a teacher, art director in theatres andrecord companies and for a period of time he was director of Prague’sNational Theatre Opera and also the Prague Spring music festival. JanSeidel died on May 23, 1998, away from media attention. Just a reminder that you have a few more hours until the deadline of ourmonthly competition in which you are asked to send us the name of themystery man who was born in 1862 in the North Bohemian village of Ji?™et?­npod Bukovou into a family of a glass cutter. He went on to start his ownglass cutting business in Austria and his surname today is a brand name forprecision cut crystal glass. Next week you will find out whether your guesses were correct and whetheryou are one of the lucky winners of our prize. The addresses for yourletters and e-mails are english@radio.cz or Radio Prague 12099 Prague.Thanks for listening today and until next week bye-bye.

Some years ago I attended a news conference at an upmarket Italian stylerestaurant in Prague’s Slovansk?? d??m, a palace at the N??m?›st?­Republiky end of Na P?™?­kop?› St. The event, something to do withathletics, took place outside in the then quite recently renovatedbuilding’s courtyard. It was at least five minutes before it hit me -wait a second, I know this place, this used to be the beer garden! Slovansk?? d??m courtyard nowadaysHeaven knows how many evenings I had spent in that very space a decadeearlier. The beer garden was leafy, lively, big, cheap and about ascentralas it gets. It was also the place where, a few days into my first visit toPrague in 1992, I chipped a tooth on an extremely stale piece of ? umavabread.Today Slovansk?? d??m, which means Slavic House, is home to shops,offices, a multiplex cinema and several eateries, with the Italian styleplace mentioned above where the Czech president likes to holdcelebrations.But in the early 1990s it had clearly seen better days. It hadn’t alwaysbeen “Slavic” either - apparently from the 1870s to 1945 it was hometo a German casino and was known as Deutsches Haus.When my mates and I were frequenting Slovansk?? d??m the word was that ithad served as a social centre for Nazi officers during the war. I’venever come across any substantiation of that claim, but there wascertainlyenough faded grandeur about the place to make it seem plausible.As well as the beer garden outside, a large part of the interior was inthose days home to one of the best nightclubs I’ve ever been to. The TamTam had a room with nice lighting and mellow music, a bigger, louder bararea and a large hall that served as a music venue. It took me right backwhen I found myself at a party in that hall - now all shiny and new -after a film premiere about a year and a half ago. Wandering into to aroomnext door also brought a sense of d?©j?  vu - it was there we watchedthe1994 World Cup.Often if we weren’t drinking in Slovansk?? d??m we were to be found atthe nearby Obecn?­ d??m, for my money the most magnificent building in acity that’s full of them. Pre-renovation, it was also home to pubs and aclub.At the time carousing in such places was just one more thing that madePrague great. But now I realise that we - and the pub and club operators- were enjoying a brief window between the fall of communism and therenewal that was bound to follow once capitalism gained traction. It wasgood while it lasted.