Sport has always played a big role in Czech life. At the time of the national revival in the 19th century, the Sokol gymnastics movement was founded on the idea that a healthy body was a recipe not only for a healthy mind, but also for a civilised nation

In the first of this series we heard the voice of Czechoslovakia’s first President, Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk. His wife Charlotte was American, and thanks to her influence Tomáš became a champion of feminism. Charlotte went on to inspire many women both with

We start this series with one of the great European democrats of the 20th century, Czechoslovakias first president Tom Garrigue Masaryk. Born in 1850, he was already in his late sixties when he became president in November 1918. He took inspiration fro