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Coilin O'Connor's guest for One on One this week is Marek Eben. Although Mr Eben is well respected as an actor and musician, he is perhaps best known in the Czech Republic as the host of a hugely popular chat show on Czech TV. Mr Eben's genial on-screen persona has made him one of the country's best loved public figures, and he has won numerous broadcasting awards. Even though he has enjoyed massive success as a chat-show host, Marek Eben originally trained as an actor and still makes regular appearances in Czech theatres. Coilin met up with him

Rob Cameron's guest on this week's One on One is Gipsy, a young rapper with a lot to say about life in the Czech Republic. A member of the country's large Roma minority, Gipsy is highly critical of both white society and Romanies themselves, and believes change can only come from within the Roma community. He's just released his first album in English - Ya Favourite CD Rom - an album full of irony and humour and above all great music.

Many of you will have heard of Petr Ginz, the young talented Jewish boy from Prague who came to be known to the world almost sixty years after he perished at Auschwitz. A copy of his painting "Moon Landscape" was on board the Columbia space shuttle when it exploded in 2003. In the Czech Republic, Petr Ginz was honoured last month with a special stamp released by the Czech Postal Service. His younger sister Chava Pressburger, now 75, is a painter and lives in Israel. This year, she published "The Diary of my Brother" featuring recently discovered

Coilin O'Connor's guest on One on One this week is the translator and filmmaker Josef Rauvolf. Although he now works as Culture Editor of the Czech magazine Instinkt, Mr Rauvolf is perhaps best known in this country as the Czech translator of American Beat writers such as William Burroughs and Jack Kerouac. His translations of Burroughs's novels The Naked Lunch and Junky are particularly popular and have sold thousands of copies. In recent years, he has also helped make acclaimed documentaries on underground cultures in both the US and Communist

Tomas Radil was thirteen and a half when he was sent to Auschwitz with his family, after they were deported from their home town of Parkany - now Sturovo in Slovakia - in the spring of 1944. Most of his relatives were murdered, only his father survived. He was one of several thousand inmates who witnessed the liberation of Auschwitz by the Red Army on January 27th, 1945. A retired psychologist and neurologist, Professor Radil shared with Rob Cameron some of his memories of Auschwitz and the camp's liberation.

Zuzana Ruzickova is one of Europe's most respected harpsichordists; she has released around a hundred albums and played in concert halls around the world. She was born in Pilsen in 1927 into an upper class Jewish family, a family that was soon to be decimated by the Holocaust; only she and her mother survived. When I visited her in her flat in Prague 3, she told me how life gradually became unbearable for Jews after the Nazi occupation.

Rob Cameron's guest on One on One this week is Rostislav Vondruska, head of the Czech tourist board Czechtourism. Believe it or not a famous tourist destination like the Czech Republic does need promoting, especially in order to persuade tourists to leave Prague and see what else the country has to offer.

In today's One on One Jan's guest is Marek Tomin - a journalist, traveller, and Greenpeace advisor who is the son of well-known dissident parents who were among the first to sign the human rights charter, Charter 77, in communist Czechoslovakia. In today's programme you'll hear what it was like growing up in a dissident family, how Marek as a child registered just "what was going on".

Today we take a look back at some of the highlights of our weekly interview programme One on One in 2004. There were numerous interesting guests on the programme, and we have selected some of our favourite excerpts from the year's One on Ones.

In today's edition Jan Velinger's guest is Ken Nash - a well-known illustrator, designer, and humorist whose work has been featured in publications around the world, including the English-language weekly, the Prague Post. His extensive design work has also included clients like Czech beer manufacturer Pilsner Urquell. Aside from drawing many illustrations, greeting cards, and cartoons, Ken also regularly organises the Alchemy Reading & Performance series here in the Czech capital - the open mic is something that has always been popular among ex-pats