On March 16, students taking part in the Practical Skills for Radio course paid a visit to the Czech Radio headquarters in Vinohradská Street, just round the corner from the Prague College campus. Lecturer David Vaughan reports on the visit:
We moved on to the main newsroom, which is at the heart of the new radio building, hidden behind Vinohradská Street and completed some fifteen years ago in what is known affectionately as the neo-brutalist style! Here, amid the grey concrete and orange plastic, we had chat with one of Czech Radio’s most respected and seasoned correspondents, Robert Mikoláš, who has reported from all over the world, including conflict zones in Syria and Iraq. He had a warning for Prague College students: at a time of conflict and when civilians are caught in the crossfire, the journalist should never assume that things are black and white. He spoke vividly of the suffering he witnessed in both halves of Aleppo.
We spent a few minutes in the Radio Prague studios, where programmes are prepared in six different languages for the international service of Czech Radio, and we ended the visit talking to members of Radio Prague’s English Section. Last year, several Prague College students contributed to the section’s broadcasts and we hope to see more of the same this year."