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Exactly 60 years ago, on 5th May 1945, the Prague Uprising against the German occupiers began here in the very building that houses Radio Prague. "Calling all Czechs" went the now legendary appeal over the airwaves, as defiant radio journalists here at our headquarters in Vinohradska Street, called on the people of Prague to rise up against their occupiers. In the three days that followed over 2,000 Czechs lost their lives in intense street fighting that focused more than anywhere else on the radio building.

This week in Mailbox we announce the winner of our April listeners' competition and we return to the debate on what makes good radio that we launched last week. We read from letters sent to us by: Gina Cenkl, US; Mary Lou Krenek, US; Zdenek Sotola, Czech Republic; Qiu Lei, China; Ted Schuerzinger, US; David Eldridge, UK; Don Schumann.

Having lived in one of the grey prefab housing estates on the outskirts of Prague for most of my life, I continue to be amazed at how much history surrounds me now that I have moved closer to the centre. The buildings in Vinohrady, the district where I live and work, are in fact only around a hundred years old but the last century has been crammed with events which have left their marks everywhere.

In this week's edition: response to the tsunami disaster in South Asia, the number of political parties in the Czech Republic, Radio Prague's languages. Listeners quoted: Jitka Vomackova, Czech Republic; Gordon Blom, USA; Mark, USA; Mostava Kamal, Bangladesh; Jaisakthivel, India.

In the lobby of the Czech Radio building on Prague's Vinohradska Street there is a large yellow candle. Many people have come to light their own candles from it. But what is its significance? Martin Mikule explains what the candle means.

In this week's edition: Responses to Radio Prague's programmes covering the 15th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution. Radio Prague's programme structure. Listeners quoted: Janice Pacl Hare, USA; Gilles Letourneau, Canada; Alisdair Cook, Canada; William Flynn, USA.

In this week's edition: Radio Prague celebrates 10 years online; Radio Prague English broadcasts on Saturday, November 6; the end of compulsory military service in the Czech Republic. Listeners quoted: David Eldridge, Robert East, Karen Huelson.

In this week's Mailbox, we have letters from the US, India and Ireland. Mohammad Shamim asks about Czech participation in the Olympics, Jonathan Murphy recalls his recent visit to Radio Prague and Otto Schwartz has a question about dance schools in the Czech Republic. And you will also find this month's Radio Prague quiz question.

Getting around in the Czech Radio building is something of an adventure at the moment. Bit by bit, the whole place is being rebuilt, and to get from our offices, in the old building at the front, to our studios in the new steel and concrete building attached at the back - we have to go down two flights of back stairs, through gloomy underground garages, past workmen with drills and piles of bricks and mortar - and then take the lift up again to the fourth floor. At a brisk pace you can just about manage the trek in five or ten minutes - but I wouldn't

Over a hundred people gathered in front of the Czech Radio building on Saturday to commemorate the anniversary of the Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968. Vinohradska Street, where Czech Radio is situated, was one of the places that saw the biggest clashes between occupying Warsaw Pact troops and Czech demonstrators, and therefore is a venue where eyewitnesses and public personalities recall these events every year on the 21st August - the day Czechoslovakia was occupied.