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Pick of the Month is a new feature which takes a quick look back at some ofthe highlights in our programming over the past thirty days or so. Some ofthe things we have included in this month’s selection are our look atright-wing extremism in the Czech Republic, the visit we paid to the mintin Kutna Hora, and interviews we had with British film director LeslieWoodhead and the Czech translator of Tom Stoppard’s new play Rock’n'Roll,which was inspired by The Plastic People of the Universe. Photo: www.nkp.czYou may have heard us reporting last month on architect Jan Kaplicky’scontroversial blob-like …

This week in Mailbox: We reveal the name of the mystery man from our Marchcompetition and we also announce the four lucky winners who can expectparcels from Radio Prague. Listeners quoted: Christine Takaguchi-Coates,Gina Cenkl, Bart Caspers, Mofizur Rahman, Uchenna Ezeani, Kirk W.Samlalsingh, Paul R Peacock, Colin Law, Harold Yeglin. Herbert LomWelcome to Mailbox. Another month has passed and that means it’s time toreveal the mystery person from our March competition and announce thenames of the four lucky winners who will be getting Radio Prague goodies. We asked you to tell us the name of a Czech-born …

There’s no doubt that Ma vlast - or My Country - by Bedrich Smetana is themost popular piece by this composer among Czech as well as foreignaudiences. The whole cycle of symphonic poems is played mostly on specialoccasions, such as the opening concerts of the Prague Spring festival. For Czech natives it is a work which makes them feel almost as if they werelistening to the national anthem. Czech Airlines is also aware of this, toa certain extent, “representative” role of the piece, and oftenplays it to their passengers inside the aircraft upon landing at RuyzneAirport in Prague. Along with words …

Some 100 extremists took part in the one-hour permitted march organised by the National Corporativism organisation.

The detained men will be accused of support for and promotion of movements leading to the suppression of human rights and freedoms, Felgrova said.

Police also detained another participant in the demonstration for driving a car without a licence.

Some 300 policemen monitored the march of right-wing extremists. The police also watched localities inhabited by Romanies who cancelled their planned ball in fears of incidents.

The extremists chanted nationalist slogans during …

Welcome to SoundCzech - Radio Prague’s Czech language series in which youcan learn useful phrases through song lyrics. Today’s song is calledJinde, or Elsewhere, and it is sung by Hana Hegerova - the country’s mostpopular chanson singer. The phrase to listen out for today is one you frequently hear in everydaylife - “Budu tu co nevidмt”. Listen in RealAudio”Budu tu co nevidмt” is the Czech equivalent of “I’llbe back in the blink of an eye” or - I’ll be back before you havetime to notice I’m gone. Other ways of expressing the same sentiment are”budu tady hned” - “I’ll be right back” - or”budu tady …

In the 1930s, a group of promising young men travelled to ski jumpingcompetitions abroad. Among them were the General Secretary of the YugoslavWinter-Sport Association Joso Gorec and the engineer Stanko Bloudek. Thanksto these men, Slovenes now consider themselves pioneers of ski-jumping andit is in Planica where it all began. Photo: www.planica.infoThanks to Bloudek and Gorec, Planica received its first ski jump in 1934,allowing jumps of up to 90 metres. At that time, there were only twojumpers in the world to have jumped over 80 metres. Bloudek howeverbelieved that ski jumpers would soon be able …

The Budapest office of the UNHCR, the UN’s Refugee Agency, has just awardeda small Hungarian theatre group with this year’s Asylum Prize. The group,under the direction of Rodrigo Balogh has been performing the drama Mirad- a Boy from Bosnia by Dutch author Ad de Bont with the aim of buildingtolerance towards refugees in Hungary. UNHCR press officer AndreaSzobolits told Radio Budapest why the prize was awarded: Mirad - a Boy from Bosnia, photo: Trisztan R. Szelei, kultura.huListen in RealAudio

The CSSD also calls on Supreme State Attorney Renata Vesecka to secure an independent investigation of the Kubice case, for instance, by assigning another police squad with it.

Paroubek said the CSSD fears that Interior Minister Ivan Langer (Civic Democrats, ODS), who supervises the Interior Minister’s Inspection, is influencing the investigation of the Kubice case and scandalising policemen dealing with it.

Paroubek added that Justice Minister Jiri Pospisil (ODS) is threatening both the state attorney and the judge with a disciplinary complaint in the situation where the investigation has not been completed yet.

ODS senator Jaroslav Kubera criticised Topolanek for his use of the German expression “Es kommt der Tag…” (The day will come) in an SMS message to journalists.

These words were used by Nazi-oriented members of the Sudeten German party in the 1930s as an appeal to the inclusion of the Czechoslovak German border regions in the Third Reich.

Asked by CTK about his reaction to the criticism Topolanek said he had not used any inappropriate statements.

Kubera, Mayor or Teplice, north Bohemia, told CTK today he had mentioned Topolanek’s vocabulary during the Executive Council’s meeting, and that the prime minister had reacted in a quite stormy way to the criticism.

Klaus, ODS honorary chairman who was elected president in 2003, has already announced he will seek reelection next year. He has no rival candidate so far.

On the contrary, delegates to the national congress of the senior opposition Social Democrats (CSSD), held in Brno last weekend, called on CSSD legislators not to support Klaus in the presidential election.

CSSD chairman Jiri Paroubek said in his speech at the congress that Klaus is a skilful populist, an ideological dogmatist and an outdated politician. The Czech Republic deserves a better president, Paroubek stressed.

The Social Democrats …