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The great Czech photographer Eva Fuka recently celebrated her 80th birthday at the opening of an exhibition of her work at Prague's Kampa Museum. She had returned to the city of her birth in the early part of this decade, after spending half her life in America. In this the second half of a two-part interview, Eva recalls how she and her first husband, the artist Vladimir Fuka, left Czechoslovakia in 1967 in something of a hurry; after getting permission for a short trip abroad, they had to leave almost all of their belongings, in case the communist

Eva Fuka, who turned 80 earlier this month, has been described as one of the most important post-war Czech photographers. Some of her best known pictures were taken in the mid 1960s in New York, a city she was to settle in a few years later, when she left Czechoslovakia with her husband Vladimir Fuka, himself a leading artist at that time. Today, in the first half of a two-part interview, Eva Fuka recalls growing up in the First Republic, the war era, the problems she and Vladimir had with the Communists, and her first visit to the city she later

Marsha Kocabova is a former modern ballet dancer from North Carolina who almost overnight ended up at the side of a prominent dissident in communist Czechoslovakia. Her husband Michael Kocab was the frontman of the popular 1980s underground rock group Prazsky Vyber, which was banned by the Communists; her daughter Natalie is now one of the country's most successful young up-and-coming writers and singers.

In today's One on One Jan's guest is Belgian developer Serge Borenstein who has lived in the Czech Republic since the 1990s and heads the Karlin Real Estate Group. Over the years Mr Borenstein has successfully invested billions of crowns into redeveloping Karlin, a formerly-industrial area that is growing more hip by the day. Serge Borenstein first visited the Czech capital in the early 1980s, describing his relationship with Prague as "love at first sight".

My guest on One on One today is Jarmila Kabatova, head of several development aid programs at the Catholic charity organization Caritas. Now 26, Jarmila joined the organization in her second year at university where she studied sociology and economics. She now supervises development programmes in Africa, Asia and Eastern Europe, where Caritas runs hospitals and long distance adoption programmes. Her work takes her to developing countries several times a year and I began by asking her to recall her first trips and impressions:

My guest in One on One today is Marcela Linkova, a young researcher at the Institute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences and coordinator of the National Contact Centre - Women in Science. The centre was opened five years ago to support women making a career in science. Since then it has been involved in many activities both on a domestic and international scale from creating databases of women scientists to promoting young female scientific talents. I met Marcela in her office in downtown Prague and first asked her what in her opinion

Ondrej Hejma studied English and Chinese before becoming Prague correspondent of Associated Press in 1987. He is also a musician, and has been leading the rock band Zluty Pes for almost 30 years. On top of that he has - among many other things - been a judge on a popular TV talent show. Like a number of prominent figures, he has also been accused of collaboration with the StB secret police during the 1980s - an allegation he denies. When I met Ondrej Hejma at AP's office on Narodni, the conversation began with his native Prague 6, which was a hotbed

In today's One on One Jan's guest is successful Czech-Japanese businessman Tomio Okamura. Today in his mid-thirties, Tomio moved to Prague from Tokyo in 1994 and within a number of years found his passion in the travel industry. Gradually, he has become a household name here in the tourism business, bringing thousands of Japanese visitors to the Czech Republic each year. But, Tomio makes clear success didn't come easily.

Rob Cameron's guest in this week's One on One is Jan Tamas, a member of the Czech humanist movement, and also the spokesman of "No to Bases", an initiative against the stationing of a US radar base in the Czech Republic. Humanists - who exist in more than 80 countries worldwide - say they're not a governmental organisation, they're not a humanitarian organisation, they're not a political party and they're not a religious movement. So what are they?

British director Leslie Woodhead first made a name for himself as a reporter for the popular 1960s World in Action current affairs programme at Britain's Granada television. He has also made a number of acclaimed documentaries and is considered one of the pioneers of the docudrama genre, which comprises dramatised recreations of real events. This was a particularly popular format in the 1970s and 80s during the Cold War, as it allowed journalists and filmmakers to cover events "behind the wall" in the Soviet Bloc despite not being able to have any