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This week in Mailbox: The winner of Radio Prague's Annual Competition, Helmut Matt from Germany, visits Radio Prague with his wife Linda, while enjoying their weeklong stay in Prague - the first prize in the competition.

In this week's edition: the winner of Radio Prague's October competition; compulsory primary education in the Czech Republic; the first electric railway in the country; the female child sex ratio in the Czech Republic. Listeners quoted: David Eldridge, England; Rabi Sankar Bosu, India; Masashi Sugiya, Japan.

This week: Czech exports to South Africa, railway museums in the Czech Republic, Radio Prague email newsletter. Listeners quoted: Clifford Riffel, South Africa; Edward Turnbull, England; Beverly Moss, United States.

In this week's Mailbox: Report on Slovak nationalist politician Andrej Hlinka on Insight Central Europe; village of Horni Benesov considers giving honorary citizenship to US presidential candidate John Kerry; Radio Prague's listeners' contests. Listeners quoted: David Eldridge, Sharon Curtis, Nooreddin Ahmed.

In this week's edition: the Czech election system, this year's summer school of Czech in Dobruska, a response to our programme on the Czech 1920s' racing driver Eliska Junkova. Listeners quoted: Rabisankar Bosu, Miguel Osers, Roz Brown and Colin Rose.

In this week's Mailbox: the Czechs' achievements in the football World Cup, Radio Prague's production of Vaclav Havel's play, winner of September competition. Listeners quoted: Geoffrey Hodson, George Smith, Joel Strafelda.

Topics discussed in this week's Mailbox: speed limits in the Czech Republic and Czech charitable organisations active abroad. We quote from letters from Ashik Eqbal Tokon from Bangladesh, Mick Horsefield from England and Muhammad Shamim from India.

In this week's Mailbox, we have letters from the US, India and Ireland. Mohammad Shamim asks about Czech participation in the Olympics, Jonathan Murphy recalls his recent visit to Radio Prague and Otto Schwartz has a question about dance schools in the Czech Republic. And you will also find this month's Radio Prague quiz question.

A week has passed and we're back again to read from your letters and emails that never cease coming - for which we are, of course, grateful. The first one is from Elizabeth M. from Canada. She's reacting to one of our broadcasts.

In this week's edition: final Czech tally from the Athens Olympics; Radio Prague's monthly competition. Listeners quoted: Muhammad Shamim, Marnix Barbiers, Christopher Keen, Nathan Harpelle.