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In this week's Mailbox: Music videos filmed in Prague, music in Radio Prague's broadcasts. Listeners quoted: Evelyn Coviello, Maren Brown, Stephen Hrebenach, Chun-Quan Meng.

Today in Mailbox: New signature tune, vocabulary concerning same-sex marriages, wetlands in the Czech Republic, a question about an internet TV channel, Czech tennis players. Listeners quoted: Gary Glaser, Meng Cheng, José Ramírez, Ted Schuerzinger.

Come Monday, September 6, our sharp-eared regular listeners are sure to noticed a change in our programme right from the beginning in the form of a new news jingle. That’s just one of a few new changes to Radio Prague’s audio format: as of Monday, several of our programmes will have new signature tunes, and the way we use other music and copyrighted sounds in our stories and features is going to be a bit different – and that goes for all six of Radio Prague’s broadcasts in different languages.

If you had been listening to Radio Prague back in the late 1930s, it is very likely that you would have heard the voice of Ivan Jelínek. He was one of the pioneers of broadcasting in Czechoslovakia, and an early presenter of our broadcasts to Britain and North America. From the radio headquarters here in Vinohrady, he witnessed many of the dramas leading up to World War Two, including moment of the German occupation itself. During his wartime exile in Britain and in the decades that followed the war, Ivan Jelínek became a familiar voice in the

Today in Mailbox: listeners’ response to the fact that Radio Prague is to stay on shortwave, a new frequency schedule, SoundCzech, Czech men and doctors. Listeners quoted: Michael Fanderys, Don Hetherington, Uday Nayak, Michael Matejka, Lynda-Marie Hauptmann.

This week in Mailbox: the future of shortwave broadcasting, discussion about full body X-ray scanners. Listeners quoted: Ed Reid, Christopher Lewis, Stuart Severin, Alastair Pamphilon, Jonathan Murphy.

Today in Mailbox: Radio Prague is to stay on shortwave! Listeners quoted: Mogire Machuki, Yvonne and Gerwyn Roberts, Dmitry Mezin, Dibyendu Madhab Das.

In this special New Year’s Day programme, we look back at some of the best of our interview programme One on One in 2009. Among those featured: Catholic intellectual Martin C Putna, historian Igor Lukeš, academic Peter Demetz, former Radio Prague man John Tregellas, jazz musician Rudy Linka and the great American cartoonist Robert Crumb.

Back by popular demand, it’s the New Year’s programme on Radio Prague! In this year’s edition Jan Velinger and Christian Falvey spoof talk radio as well as popular shows like Czechs Today. Along the way they also cover topics such as drinking in the workplace, cute sound technicians, and the future of the station in 2010.

This week in Mailbox we look back at 2009 and read from your letters of support and encouragement regarding the future of Radio Prague. Listeners quoted: Charles Konecny, Simon Hockenhull, Jayanta Chakrabarty, Rich Bisignano.