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This week’s Sunday Music Show is devoted to one of the country’s most prominent jazz artists –flutist Jiří Stivín. The 68-year-old musician, who is reputed to be able to play on a blade of grass, says the feel for jazz is something you are born with and some of the best renditions come from children who are as yet unspoiled by the constraints of a music education.

In Sunday Music Show today, we’ll be listening to the music of Michael Kocáb. A distinct and versatile musician, Michael Kocáb also has a record as a human right activist who played a significant part in the Velvet Revolution.

In this week’s edition of the Sunday Music Show well be focussing on music in Czech film – rock and pop hits from the 1960s up to the Noughties. Everything from more recent films like Rebelové (Rebels) to family classics like Saxana and S tebou mě baví svět – sure to be fired up on the DVD or re-watched on TV during the upcoming holiday season.

This week’s Sunday Music Show is dedicated to the late Czech film-score composer Zdeněk Liška who was recently rewarded posthumously by the Culture Ministry for his outstanding contribution to Czech cinema. An extremely prolific composer, between the 1950s and 1980s Zdeněk Liška wrote the scores to some 500 feature films, television series and documentaries.

In this edition of Sunday Music Show, Peter Smith plays hits from chart topping Czech artists including 4Life and Kristof. There is also a chance to hear the vocal talents of Helena Vondrackova's less famous niece, Lucie.

This week’s Sunday music show is devoted to a refreshing female duo called Two Voices. At first glance they have little in common - Jana Rychterova is a classic chanson singer, who writes her own lyrics and accompanies herself on the guitar while mezzo-soprano Edita Adlerova studied opera. What brought them together is a sense of humour and a natural talent to entertain the crowd.

In this edition of the Sunday Music Show we profile Slovak pop star Miro Žbirka. The Prague-based singer, widely known by his nickname Meky, released his first album in Czechoslovakia in 1979 with the pop group Modus, a band with which he recorded now classic hits like Dievčatá, Drahá and others, before moving on to a successful solo career. Žbirka, whose mother was from Great Britain, also sings in English so we’ll be hearing a variety of material, including one song off from remastered material recorded in English in West Germany in the

In this edition of our Sunday Music Show we talk to singer, songwriter and guitarist James Harries, a Manchester native who has lived and worked in the Czech Republic for the last 13 years. His sixth and latest album, Growing Pains, is only one of the many interesting projects he is involved in.

On this week’s Sunday Music Show we mark the birthday of Antonín Dvořák, who would have 170 candles on his birthday cake this year. Unfortunately he only lived to the age of 63, enjoying a career of about four decades, but he saw the kind of success in his day that few composers could dare to hope for. Today’s show is a personal tribute to one of the greatest masters of Western musical history.

This edition of Sunday Music show is dedicated to the poet and lyrics writer Pavel Vrba who died last week at the age of 73. In a career spanning over five decades, Mr Vrba authored lyrics to more than 2,000 songs. His prolificacy along with a wide range of singers, musicians and bands he worked with made his lyrics a phenomenon in the Czech pop culture.