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Outside the sun shines brightly and life goes by on the busy lower end of Wenceslas Square. Inside Stalin, Lenin, Brezhnev and Chruschev wave to the masses from a platform. Franz Kafka looks on, a whimsical smile on his face, the good soldier Sweik drinks his last pint and Albert Einstein swings high on a garden swing, oblivious to the company around him. In the cool dark interior of the Prague Wax Museum figures of the distant past rub shoulders with those of the present: famous scientists, artists and politicians. The hated together with the

While Czech supermodels wow the fashion crowds in Paris, London and Rome, here in the Czech Republic teenage models of lesser repute -but great promise- are also strutting down catwalks sporting the latest fashion trends.What is the Czech fashion scene like more than a decade after the fall of communism? Have Czechs become more fashionable and fashion conscious? This week I talked to Mrs. Anna Nandradzi, an image consultant who recalls queuing up all night to get her hands on a Western fashion magazine in the days of the Iron Curtain. And we began

In recent years the Czech Republic is said to have become a hunters' paradise. The country's pine forests filled with elk, deer and wild boar keep the nation's 100,000 hunters happy and attract thousands of hunters from abroad. While ten years ago the Czech Republic was a popular destination for hunters from Germany, Austria, France and Italy - now hunters come from as far as Canada, the United States and even Saudi Arabia. The regions need money -and are happy to organize hunts for foreigners. Even Princess Caroline is said to have attended a

Czech Radio is co-organizer of a project which involves tracking black storks to their wintering grounds in Africa and India. The aim of this project is not just to help establish the various migration routes that these birds take every spring and autumn but to help protect them along the way. The last experiment conducted with three black storks to which zoologists attached monitoring devices in Siberia last autumn shows how important it is to try and ensure their greater safety. Two of them perished - Katarina, a stork that had been monitored

Some time ago the UN Committee for Children's Rights published its annual report on the Czech Republic. The report was generally positive although the committee's inspection team found some areas that require attention: improving the state of the environment which has an adverse affect on children's health, especially in terms of rising asthma and allergies, bringing back the institution of school doctors and dentists - or at least ensuring compulsory medical check ups for children, and taking measures to curb the high incidence of accidents involving

This year's Valentine's Day signified something more than just love and romance in the Czech Republic, for it was also the country's first Day of Sexual Health. This initiative is the work of the Society for Sexual Health, which was established in the Czech Republic at the beginning of this year by three medical specialists: the urologist (that is, someone who treats problems of the urinary tract and the urogenital system) Karel Koci, the andrologist (or someone who treats sperm problems) Vladimir Kubicek, and the psychiatrist Ondrej Trojan. I

Czechs are the worlds biggest beer drinkers and breweries are doing good business - so why should they try to change anything? The answer is "ethics" says Ivan Sima secretary of the association of Prague breweries. Czech brewers want more people to drink their beer "in moderation", and they have worked hard to present the golden brew as something more than a pub drink. In this week's Magazine DL talks to Mr. Sima about a new code of ethics which the country's leading brewers have adopted, Czechs drinking habits, why most Czech pubs sell only one

Brother Laurence Cada is an American of Czech descent, whom the Marianist religious order sent to the Czech Republic in the role of missionary. In many ways it was a voyage of discovery to the land of his ancestors and five years after his arrival in the Czech capital Brother Cada appears to have settled down happily enough. He has a busy work schedule, many Czech friends and has established close links with dignitaries of the Catholic Church. But - from a professional angle Laurence Cada could not have been given a harder task. He was sent to

There's a restaurant in Prague called Noah's Arc -and it is exactly where you'd expect to find it - on the grounds of Prague's Troya Zoo- where five months ago employees worked night and day to save hundreds of animals from drowning in the devastating floods that swept the country. The zoos' plight triggered a wave of sympathy and support from around the world and today the Prague zoo is on the road to recovery. Find out more in this week's Magazine with Daniela Lazarova.

This week we travel to Brno to take a look at a new exhibit which looks at Czech and Slovak exiles from the past century. Later in the program we will talk to the one of the owners of a famous Prague cafe, the Globe, who is an American with Czech roots.