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As chairman and CEO of Ceska Sporitelna bank, Jack Stack is one of the best known foreign businessmen in the Czech Republic. As well as being personally popular, he is also admired for having turned around the bank's fortunes; when he took the helm at the turn of the decade it was deeply in the red - today it is making billions of crowns in profits. When I met Mr Stack at his Prague 4 office, I asked him what the secret of his success at Ceska Sporitelna was.

Dr Otomar Kittnar works at the medical faculty at Prague's Charles University. As vice-dean for international students, it is his job to co-ordinate the enrolment and teaching of students from around the world, in the English language. When the programme began in 1992 there were only five or six students a year. Today it takes in around 120. And, says Dr Kittnar, interest has increased even further since the Czechs joined the European Union.

It's not often you get the chance to talk about history with those who participated in it. But recently while covering a festival of Jewish culture in the south Moravian town of Mikulov, I had that chance. The festival marked the 70th anniversary of the foundation of Mikulov's Jewish museum for Moravia and Silesia, which was closed when the Nazis arrived in 1938. Among the guests was William Teltscher, son of the museum's founder Richard Teltscher. William Teltscher fled the Nazis in 1938 and emigrated to London, where he's lived ever since. Now

In today's One on One my guest is Czech restorer and lecturer at the University of Pardubice Petr Justa involved in important historic conservation projects in both the Czech Republic and abroad. Recently Petr Justa returned from New Orleans, where he and fellow specialists worked to assess the level of damage to that city's most famous cemetery. In the interview he discusses how that project developed and what he and fellow specialists found. Petr Justa - One on One.

Prague's Hare Krishnas are a busy bunch. The group operates the Govinda restaurants, which are known for vegetarian meals and relatively cheap prices, and also runs an ecological farm just south of the city. Perhaps they are more known for their brightly colored robes and energetic chants in demonstrations three to four times a week on Wenceslas Square. In this week's One on One, Brian Sabin meets with Ilona Nejkovova, also known by her spiritual name as Rasabihari Devi. She found Krishna consciousness shortly after the Velvet Revolution in 1989

Rob Cameron's guest in this week's One on One is Stepan Vymetal, chief psychologist at the Czech Interior Ministry. Stepan belongs to a team responsible for post-traumatic stress support for the Czech police force. He also co-ordinates psychological assistance for Czech Airlines, and is a member of the World Association for Disaster and Emergency medicine. He's worked with traumatized people after the 2002 floods, the 2004 tsunami in South East Asia, and the 2005 terrorist attacks in Egypt.

Jan Culik lecturers in Czech at the Slavonic Studies department at Glasgow University's School of Modern Languages and Cultures. He is also well known here in the Czech Republic as a political commentator and the man behind the Britske listy website. In the first part of our interview last week, he recalled aspects of his life in Prague before he left Czechoslovakia in the 1970s. Today Jan Culik talks about what happened when he moved to Glasgow.

Jan Culik is a senior lecturer in Czech at the Slavonic Studies department at Glasgow University's School of Modern Languages and Cultures. He is also well known here in the Czech Republic as a political commentator and the man behind the Britske listy website. In this, the first of a two-part interview, Jan Culik talks about his studies at Prague's Charles University, his translator father, his brief time at Radio Prague, and how he ended up in Glasgow.

Martin Fell is the half-Czech co-owner of a Czech style tea-room in the Scottish city of Glasgow. The cosy tea-room has the Czech name Cajovna (phonetically spelled Tchai Ovna) and is to be found on the city's Otago Lane, near Glasgow University. When I met Martin there recently he smoked away on a hookah water pipe throughout our conversation. Between drags he told me a little about his background.

In today's One on One Jan's guest is Ewan McLaren, a Canadian who has lived in the Czech Republic since 1990. For sixteen years Ewan - trained professionally in the theatre - has worked as an actor, director, and finally producer - with such companies as Prague's Studio Ypsilon and the cutting-edge Alfred ve Dvore - The Alfred in the Courtyard Theater. In the interview, Ewan discusses not only his approach to stage performance in the Czech Republic but also his overall fascination with Czech culture. Ewan McLaren - One on One.