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Today we bring you an interview with Radio Prague's listener Costas Constantinides from Cyprus. We also speak about the legendary Czech-born tennis player Ivan Lendl and decathlon world record holder Roman Sebrle. We quote from e-mails sent by Christine Takaguchi-Coates from Japan and Narayanan Kalyanam from India.

Topics discussed in this week's Mailbox: The legendary Czech animator Jiri Trnka, writer Karolina Svetla, Czech records in the javelin throw. Listeners quoted: Jean-Claude Bonnard, Colin Law, Aloisie Krasny, and Mogire Omachuki.

Hello and welcome to Mailbox. Today we reveal the correct answer to our August competition. As well as revealing the identity of our mystery man, we announce the names of the lucky four who will receive small gifts from Radio Prague for their correct answers. We quote from e-mails by Prasanta Kumar Padmapati, Keith A. Simmonds, Timothy Merkel, Zhu Guo-mei, Christine Takaguchi-Coates, David Eldridge, Omar Elkharadly, Marnix Barbiers, Charles Konecny, and Colin Law.

Today in Mailbox: the fifty-heller coin once again, the upcoming renovation of the Czech Radio building on Vinohradska Street, the Prague public transport, and Radio Prague's One on One jingle. Listeners quoted: Bob Boundy, Colin Law, Aloisie Krasny, Robert Main.

This week in Mailbox: problems with accessing Radio Prague's website, weather extremes in the Czech Republic, Radio Prague podcast service, the fifty-heller coin. Listeners quoted: Christopher Lewis, Umesh Kumar Yadav, Michel Solis, Trevor Ayson.

This week in Mailbox: British stag parties in Prague, the 20th anniversary of Skoda Favorit and a new government scheme aiming to teach school children how to manage debt. Listeners quoted: Thomas Spencer, Barbara Ziemba, Frank Miata, Trevor Ayson, Lynda-Marie Hauptman.

In today's Mailbox we reveal the identity of July's mystery man and announce the names of the four lucky winners as well as a new question for the month of August. We quote from e-mails sent by: Gina Cenkl, David Eldridge, Kristina Fallin, Annette Harris, Peter Young, Christine Takaguchi-Coates, Teodor Shepertycki, Mary Lou Krenek, Harold Jackson, Colin Law, and Charles Konecny.

This week in Mailbox: the village of Lidice in Central Bohemia, where is the Red River Valley mentioned in a song featured in SoundCzech, a restoration project discussed in Insight Central Europe, and what colour is the red squirrel? Listeners quoted: Elizabeth Funnekotter, Charles Chambers, Dick Derksen, Aloisie Krasny, Paul Kail.

Today in Mailbox we air your views on a possible toll system on Prague's Charles Bridge, ground squirrels in the capital, plans by the US to build a radar station in the Czech Republic - and is it Lesser Town or Mala Strana? Listeners quoted: Glenn White, Steve Wisensale, John Novotney and Peter Andrews.

This week in Mailbox we quote from the annual listeners' competition entries by the two finalists for the English section, John Pastier and Elke Semerad.