News, Previously lost play by Václav Havel, Warning, to get its first performance, Czech lace inspires new Žižkov mural by Polish artist, interview with Václav Bartuška, Czechia’s ambassador to the United Kingdom.

Václav Bartuška is today Czechia’s ambassador to the United Kingdom. He first came to public attention as a student leader during the Velvet Revolution. Soon after he was tasked with investigating Czechoslovakia’s recently deposed StB secret police, a subject the then journalist covered in a best-selling book. More recently, Bartuška served for nearly two decades as the Czech government’s envoy for energy security – and we discussed all of these chapters in his fascinating life at our studios in Prague.

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