'Prague' - tagged features

The largest historical book in the world is to go on show at Prague's Klementinum Gallery this week. The book is known as the “Devil's Bible” because of a large illustration of the devil inside. This bible is by no means a satanic work, but contains the Old and New Testaments and other medieval documents and was written in what is now the Czech Republic in the early thirteenth century. During the Middle Ages it was regarded as a wonder of the world. Plundered from Prague by Swedish soldiers during the Thirty Years War, it is now to return to the city temporarily after an absence of over 350 years. Radio Prague’s Joshua Singer has more. 

Dozens of non-governmental organisations from the Czech Republic and around the world gathered in Prague recently for the annual NGO market. The 8th such event to be held in the Czech capital included lectures and debates on everything from the role of civic society in post-communist countries to water shortages in the Middle-East. The meeting was attended by members of the public from all walks of life, as well as Radio Prague's Rob Cameron. 

"Journeys of Franz Kafka" is the name of a new internet project in which award-winning Czech photographer Jan Jindra follows in the footsteps of the literary great, taking black and white pictures of many of the places Kafka visited. One of the project's aims is to dispel the idea that the German-speaking author never left Prague; in fact he travelled rather extensively, around the Czech Republic and to countries such as Germany, France and Italy. Radio Prague's Ian Willoughby has the story.