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This week in Mailbox: A linden tree in the village of Nebahovy; winner of Radio Prague's July competition; new question for August. Listeners quoted: Adolph R. Kivch, USA; Teodor Shepertycki, Canada; Mary Lou Krenek, USA; and Karel Jicha, UK.

Hello and welcome to our Mailbox programme in which we read from your letters and answer your questions. First of all, let's hear two views on the role of international radio sent to us by our listeners as part of a debate we launched earlier this year.

This week in Mailbox: the Prague street that was renamed Viktoriastrasse by the Nazis; more response to Radio Prague's new signature tunes; and the Czech pop legend Karel Gott. Listeners quoted: D.M. Cook, Scotland; Stephen Conlin and Philip Hines, UK; Vladimir Val Cymbal, United States.

In Mailbox this week: Radio Prague's new and old signature tunes, the Czech 311 RAF squadron that helped sink U-Boats, and the Prague throughway that was renamed Victoria Street by the Germans in 1941. Listeners quoted: Ted Schuerzinger (USA), Michael St. Amand (Canada), D.M. Cook (Scotland).

In Mailbox this week: Problems with reading Czech characters in ABC of Czech, Radio Prague's reporting on tax freedom day, the answer to the June competition question. Listeners quoted: Mary Kretschman, US; Brack Brown, US; Katherine Faa, US; David Eldridge, UK; Mark Zubik, US; Admas Mulatu, Ethiopia.

Welcome to a very special edition of Mailbox. It is special because today we will announce the winner of the 2005 Radio Prague listeners' competition. This year the question was "What Czech beer means to me?"

Today in Mailbox: How do we refer to the inhabitants of Prague? The Czech national anthem, the Czech Republic's membership in the UN. Listeners quoted: Lindley L. Becker, US; Margaret M. Lally, US; Srikanta Nandy, India.

In this week's programme: requests for Czech recipes, how to make "langos", Radio Prague's listeners' competitions. Listeners quoted: Lynda-Marie Hauptman, US; Arcadia Wylie, New Zealand; Ralph M. Francis, Canada; Deborah Floyd, US; Amela Omerspahic, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

This week we read some more views on the role of international broadcasting sent in by our listeners and we announce the winner of our May competition as well as the question for the month of June. Listeners quoted: Stephen Hrebenach, USA; Sergey Kolesov, Ukraine; Miss Farah Anjum, Pakistan; Erik Koie, Denmark, David Eldridge, UK.

This week in Mailbox we talk about the differences between a transcript of a radio report and a newspaper article and we read from an e-mail from Michael Pober, Czech Republic. Also in Mailbox: only two weeks remain until the deadline of Radio Prague's annual listeners' competition.