The date is November 17, 1989, eight days after the fall of the Berlin
Wall. A cordon of Czechoslovak riot police blocks the path of thousands of
university students staging a march through Prague, calling for democracy
Thirty years ago the communist regime in Czechoslovakia started to fall
apart. The main demonstrations and events were taking place in Prague. But
the key question was whether the regions would join in and support the not
Director and script writer Vojtěch Jasný, one of the leading individuals
involved in Czechoslovak New Wave cinema has died at the age of 93. Mr.
Jasný was resposible for films such as All My Compatriots and When the Cat
Czech president Miloš Zeman and his Slovak compatriot Zuzana Čaputová
opened the Czech House in Bratislava on Saturday, which will house a Czech
Centre as well as CzechTrade, CzechTourism and CzechInvest offices. Mr.
As the anniversary of the Velvet Revolution approaches, we take you to
places that are closely associated with the events that led to the collapse
of the communist regime in 1989. In the fifth and last episode of our
In the first episode of this two-part series we got to know Barbara Day,
who first came from England to Prague in 1965 and whose life has been
closely connected to this country ever since. She talked about her interest
