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Today in Mailbox: Where and how you listen to Radio Prague, looking for a long-lost record, the events of 1989 in Czech Radio. Listeners quoted: Ralph Sorrentino, Charles Konecny, Josef Svoboda, Terry Price.

Born in the Sudetenland, Dora Slaba spent World War II in England, returning with far better English than her Czech school teachers. She later put her language skills to use here at Radio Prague, where she worked for a decade and a half until the cataclysm that was the 1968 Soviet invasion. Dora Slaba told me all about that and more when she visited our studios.

As we do every year, Radio Prague has issued a brand new series of QSL cards to be sent out to our listeners in exchange for their reception reports. Some of you probably received the special QSL card we issued last year for the 70th anniversary of Radio Prague, and many of you have the complete collections from recent years or going even further back.

For many people, for many years, the Olga Szantova was THE voice of Radio Prague. Almost three and a half years after she passed away, a new book has been published in her honour. It is in Slovak, Czech and English and has the Slovak title Nezila som nadarmo, I Didn't Live in Vain. Radio Prague's former editor-in-chief David Vaughan was a good friend of Olga Szantova's; at its launch, he explained the thinking behind the new publication.

When it comes to moving between floors in Prague's taller buildings, there are more options than just elevators, escalators, and the stairs. The paternoster, an unusual early variant on the elevator, is still in wide use throughout the Czech Republic.

This week in Mailbox: New Radio Prague programme leaflets are in print! Response to last weekend's programmes, the CzechWrecks rally, typos in the transcripts of our programmes, an incident during a military excercise in Sweden and more. Listeners quoted: Baber Shehzad, Jonathan Murphy, Jerry Fridrich, Ed Riley, Frank Miata, Stephani Shelton, Vic Maddex.

The winner of Radio Prague's annual radio competition, Dimitrij Balykin of Russia, has arrived for a week's stay in the Czech capital. Mr Balykin, along with several hundred others took part in the competition, but his entry on the topic of "Czech sounds" was judged the best by the jury. Mr Balykin wrote about the usefulness of audio in Prague's metro especially for the blind and poor-sighted. Mr Balykin himself is blind. His week in the capital will include visiting a number of key tourist sites, as well as sitting down for an interview with Radio Prague - the international service of Czech Radio.

This week in Mailbox: Radio Prague launches digital broadcasting, and we talk to a listener from New Zealand who came to visit us here in Prague. As usual, we repeat our monthly competition question.

Show trials featuring trumped up charges and fabricated confessions remain one of the strongest symbols of Communist state repression throughout the former Eastern Bloc. Czechoslovakia's most infamous show trials involved senior Communist Rudolf Slansky and resistance leader Milada Horakova, both of whom were given the death penalty. But not all defendants were so high-profile: a newly discovered recording reflects Communist Party efforts to use the courts to crush a whole class - relatively wealthy farmers.

This week we quote from letters and greetings sent in to Radio Prague for the 70th anniversary of its first broadcast. Listeners quoted: Jay Ham, Nadia Alkon, Fernando Ferreira, Christine Takaguchi-Coates, David Eldridge, Helmut Matt, Mike Talbot, Joel Strafelda, Eva Pilik, Peter Fort, Borje Nilsson, Erik Koie, Gautam Kumar Sharma.