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This week in Czechs in History, looks at a Czech whose name rings out on radio stations and in homes throughout the Christian world each Christmas: Prince Vaclav, the patron saint of the Czech people, otherwise known as Good King Wenceslas.

And now it's time for this week's edition of Czechs in History, and today takes a look at the eccentric life of one of the Czech Republic's most famous writers, Jaroslav Hasek...

And now it's time for this week's edition of Czechs in History, and today takes a look at the life of Eduard Goldstucker, diplomat, scholar and lifelong Communist, who passed away in October at the age of eighty-seven...

And now it's time for this week's edition of Czechs in History, and today takes a look at the life of Czech composer Zdenek Fibich:

And now it's time for this week's edition of Czechs in History, and today takes a look at the life of Prince Maximillian Lobkowicz:

With the IMF sessions and demonstrations currently in progress, many people have been given time off in case trouble ensues and may well be unaware that Thursday is a national holiday. looks at the life of the famous Czech 'good king' who is the namesake of this national day off.

And now it's time for this week's edition of Czechs in History, and today, instead of examining the lives of one Czech, takes a look at a whole family, the Roudnice branch of the Lobkowicz dynasty:

And now it's time for this week's edition of Czechs in History, and today takes a look at the life of John of Luxembourg.

106 years ago this week, a Czech man founded a business that would become one of the world's most recognizable brand names: Bata Shoes. Over a century, Tomas Bata, his son Tomas J. and his grandson Tomas G. created a company that would change the world of shoes forever. In this week's edition of Czech's In History, Ita Dungan talks to Tomas J. Bata about his father's entrepreneurial and philanthropic vision.

It's time now for this week's edition of Czechs in History, and this week Nick Carey takes a look at the life of the writer Franz Kafka...