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Police are currently investigating a new Czech translation of so-called “neo-Nazi bible” The Turner Diaries, a book said to have inspired the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing and other acts of far-right violence. The book – which describes an Aryan revolution that leads to the extermination of the world’s non-white peoples - is banned in many European countries and Czech police must now decide whether it should be banned here too.

This weekend we celebrate what is for all of us here at Vinohradská 12 a rather important birthday. May 18 was the day back in 1923 when Czechoslovakia began its first regular radio broadcasts. To mark the event we shall be bringing you a special programme on Sunday, looking back to those pioneering days. Here is a quick foretaste of what we have in store.

The Czech journalist Iva Skochová has been based in New York for the last seven years. She works freelance, writing in Czech for like the likes of Lidové noviny and Reflex, and in English for international publications and websites. When I spoke to Iva Skochová in Greenwich Village, I first asked her to compare journalism in the Czech Republic and America.

DNA testing to trace your ancestry or your parentage is all the rage at the moment, but it’s mostly about looking into the past. Predictive genetic testing looks into the future – and can tell you how likely it is you will develop the same health conditions as your parents or grandparents. There are now several commercial DNA clinics offering the service in the Czech Republic, and the field is expected to grow sharply in the future.

Four minutes can be a long time in hockey, especially when guarding the slimmest of leads, the situation for the Czech Republic in its quarterfinal match against Sweden on Wednesday at the Ice Hockey World Championship. In the final minutes, the national team led Sweden 2-1 but failed to block an equaliser sending the game into overtime. Worse, in OT, the Swedes struck again, making this the second year in a row the Czechs will finish outside the medals.

The inhabitants of Studenec, a small Moravian village near Brno, have voted to keep a bronze relief depicting Soviet dictator Josef Stalin on their community’s monument to the victims of the First and Second World Wars. Just over a half of the village’s adult inhabitants turned up to cast their ballots in the local referendum, while a majority of them said they wanted to keep the controversial portrait in its place.

A newly created internet page www.chceteje.cz, has attracted the attention of Czech police for its xenophobic and potentially illegal content. The website, which roughly translates as "Do you want them?", and refers to immigrants in the Czech Republic, attacks people from foreign backgrounds through coarse stereotyping and racial slurs. Its creators have clearly set it up as a counter-attack against, and a parody of, a website run by the Czech NGO People in Need as part of their ongoing campaign to highlight and explain the problem of neo-Nazism.

On Tuesday at 11am, anti-radar activist and chairman of the Czech Humanist Party Jan Tamáš began a hunger strike in protest at the Czech Republic’s impending acceptance of a US missile-defence radar base in the country. Dominik Jůn met with Jan Tamáš at his base of operations - a rented shop space in the centre of Prague, to discuss his motivations for taking such a drastic step:

Memorial services have been taking place at the site of a former concentration camp in the town of Lety. This is the 13th year the Czech Republic has marked the Romany Holocaust. But the site in Lety, still borders a pig farm despite repeated calls by various groups for it to be closed down. Radio Prague’s Rosie Johnston joins us from Lety.

The Czech Republic is known as one of the most secular states in Europe, with almost half the population identifying themselves as atheists. However, that does not deter some faith groups, such as the Mormons, from proselytising here. But what is it actually like trying to make converts in such a non-religious country?