News; Puppets cheer up sick kids in hospital over Christmas; Frost hunter Ivo Rolk; the return of the wolf

Czech Christmas traditions observed at home and abroad

News; History of Czech Christmas traditions; Survey: What should go in Christmas Eve potato salad?; Gay US ex-Christian pastor Don Hall on losing everything before finding acceptance, love, and home in Czechia

News; Ledeck named Czech Sportsperson of Year; Czech project finds homes for wonky Christmas trees; Japanese comic artist Fumio Obata on searching for Kafka in Prague

News; Czechs gave record amount to charity in 2022; traditionalBoxing Day ice swimming competition; Czech sound-artist Lenka Morvkov on creating unique instrumentout of Bohemian crystal

News;Pundit on successes and failures of Czechia'sEU presidency; Prague installing electric charging points into smart street lamps; Yemi A.D. on being Czechias first space tourist

News; Expert: "Much harder" for Babi to challenge Pavel than Nerudov in run-off; Prague arthouse cinema Kino Pilot wins European award; Manu Chilaud: We said, How can someone freeze to death in 21st century Europe?

The last in our series A Stitch in Time, where young people tell stories from their familys past. We have a taste of sugarcane from Guangdong province in China, we meet a Jewish boy in Baltimore who remembers his own circumcision, and a teenager from Brn

News; esk Krumlov marks 30 years of UNESCO status; unconventional surrealist artist Toyen; marriages between Czechs and foreign partners.

News, a street in Luxembourg named after Vaclav Havel, a new exhibition recreates a futuristic early project by architect Jan Kaplicky, Christmas markets in Prague