Interpreter Jana Fraňková: Havel was always eager to learn – and his English constantly improved

For many years Jana Fraňková was the regular interpreter for President
Václav Havel when he welcomed foreign visitors and travelled abroad.
Fraňková was one of the few Czechs of her generation to graduate from
Oxford University and following her return to Prague in the 1970s was
harassed by the secret police for translating for Charter 77. She was also
involved, she told me at Radio Prague’s studios, with the Jan Hus
Educational Foundation, a group of Western academics who provided
underground support to intellectuals in Czechoslovakia.