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This edition of Music Profile is dedicated to the great 1960s Czech pop singer Petr Novák. In just a few years Novák, with the groups George and Beatovens and Flamengo, released a string of often charming singles that have come to define the optimistic Prague Spring era.

Hello and welcome to another edition of Music Profile which, this month, centres upon the Prague-based rock group ‘Psí Vojáci’ (or ‘Dog Soldiers’), led by the charismatic songwriter, singer and pianist Filip Topol. Psí Vojáci started as an underground band during the Communist regime, but enjoyed probably their biggest success after its fall in 1989. From the very beginning their sound was dominated by Filip Topol’s piano as well as dark, expressive lyrics. We begin with a song called ‘Černý sedlo’ or ‘Black Saddle’.

Hello and welcome to this month’s edition of Music Profile in which we introduce Hana Hegerová, an actress and singer who is known as “the Slav Edit Piaf” or “the queen of chanson”. And we begin with her rendition of Edith Piaf’s smash hit Milord from 1959.

This week, the Czech music world mourned the death of one of its more prominent stars, Karel Hála, who died aged 74 in the Czech capital, Prague. Mr Hála was known as a singer of swing music, similar to the rat-pack music sung by the likes of Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin. Here’s a clip from the song “Že prý někde padají ” or the more familiar title “Pennies From Heaven.”

Hello and welcome to this month’s edition of Music Profile. Today we are going to look at the work of Jaromír Nohavica, one of the country’s most respected singer songwriters. He released his first album Darmoděj in 1988. By that time, however, his songs were already well-known, as fans circulated amateur recordings from his concerts. He now has numerous albums to his name and sells-out concerts without having to put up a single poster.

Hello and welcome to this month’s edition of Music Profile. Today, we’re leafing through the back catalogue of Václav Neckář – who you might know better for his acting than for his singing. Neckář can boast a string of number one albums in this country, spanning a period of over forty years, and he’s got an Oscar to boot. For what? Find out in Music Profile.

In this month's Music Profile, we go back in time to the 1930s and the Liberated Theatre, where political satire and dadaist cabaret collided head on to a soundtrack of the latest scorching hot American jazz and blues. The music: near-blind piano virtuoso & composer Jaroslav Ježek. The words: avant garde merry pranksters Jan Werich and Jiří Voskovec. Tune in to Music Profile to find out more.

The Czech band Support Lesbiens first got its start in the early 1990s, introducing a hard, punkish sound often drawing comparisons with the then popular Seattle scene and grunge music. The band was founded by a group of young Czech musicians that included then-DJ Kryštof Michal a slight but dynamic individual with a talent for vocals who soon became the most energetic of frontmen. Support Lesbiens - in Music Profile.

In this edition of Music Profile we take a brief look back at the long career of the undisputed king of Czech pop music, Karel Gott. The multi-million selling singer released his first single, a jazzy duet, in 1962. Just twelve months later Gott was voted Czechoslovakia's best singer; by the end of the decade he had become an international star.