On today's show: Prague hosts three teams for cricket's Central Europe Cup; veteran car race to celebrate 130 years of Škoda production; and, for out feature, an interview with Serge Borenstein, who famously redeveloped Prague’s Karlín district.

No foreigner can have had such an impact on Prague in the modern era as Serge Borenstein. Indeed in three and a half decades, the Belgian-born developer has been behind new constructions totalling a remarkable half a million square metres in and around the capital. His most notable projects have been in Karlín, a district he has almost single-handedly transformed with a series of gleaming office buildings. And it was at Borenstein’s offices there that we spoke recently.

News; the Czech army plans to bring in garrisons to every region—but is still falling short; Expert Radek Špicar discusses current state of Czech economy and trade; “There’s no global resolution exclusively addressing youth mental health”, says UN Youth Delegate Veronika Novotná.

For today's show: the news; pilgrimage badge on display in Opava reveals connections of Czech medieval life; Czech scientist first to document Oceania’s largest rodent; and, for out feature, our exclusive tour of Pilsner Urquell Brewery.

For today's show: the News; an alternative statue of Holy Trinity created on Olomouc’s Upper Square; 1970s “bespectacled” rail veterans to get new lease on life; and for out feature, another edition of Prague Off the Beaten Track: Prague’s Little Hanoi.

What Czech films will compete at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival this year? We talk to two laureates of the 2025 Medal for Merit in Diplomacy awards and US journalist Matt Welch talks about his years in Prague.

Matt Welch was among the first wave of young Westerners who flooded into Prague in the early 1990s. Today a prominent journalist and commentator in his native US, back then he was one of the founders of Prognosis, Czechoslovakia’s first English-language newspaper. And Welch shared lots of colourful recollections of that formative period of his life from his study in New York.

News; Czech PM calls National Security Council meeting over suspect bitcoin transaction; The Netherlands send a bell made of Russian missiles from Ukraine to Prague’s Old Town; Beavers’ comeback: How a once-extinct species is reshaping the Czech landscape.

News; Bitcoin scandal shakes Czech government as opposition pushes for no-confidence vote; Czech leaders react to Nawrocki’s presidential win in Poland; British comedian Mark Watson on Prague and performing comedy abroad.