Slovakia Today, English Language Current Affairs Programme from Slovak Radio

Ben Pascoe attends a benefit concert raising money to help a sick local musician. He talks with musicians, organizers and attendees about how Slovakia today has many faces, including the one where people band together to help those in need.

In this show, we will present personality of the Catholic Church Jozef Tomko on the occasion of 100 years since his birth. We will provide travelling news and tips for trips around Slovakia. At the end of our show, we will continue with our Monday bonus feature called TOP SPOT

Sundays are about our listeners. Ben and Patka deal with climate changes as they try to enjoy early spring on a cafe patio. They discuss the week, read some letter and of course play some music to make your Sunday as pleasant as possible.

What was the week like in Slovakia? Overview of the news in the FrontPage magazine and pick of the interesting parts of our programming this week.

Celebrating the International Women's Day, Martina and Kamila talk to tourists in front of the Presidential palace shortly before the first ever Slovak female President will leave it to another man.

RSI starts series of information about Presidential elections in Slovakia that will be held 23 March. On the occasion of the International Women's Day, we have a look at the Slovak project supporting female entrepreneurs in Ukraine. Female artist and mother Katarina Blazova brings memories of her late son, artist Marko Blazo whose solo exhibition is the first ever display of art located in the rec...

According to last year's Deloitte property index, Slovakia has the most expensive real estate, relative to income, in Europe. It takes the average Slovak 14 annual incomes to afford a 70 square meter dwelling. To find out how Slovaks view their housing situation, we spoke with three citizens from the Trencin region. Also in this episode, we spoke with researcher Ján Výbošťok from Comenius Universi...

Ben Pascoe sits down with Hatice Duzu and Alaaddin Uslu from the Spolocna Cesta, or Common Path civic organization to discuss Slovakia today and how we can work together to make it better.

In this show, we will talk about how Ukrainian youngsters have been doing in Slovakia especially since the war in Ukraine broke out in 2022. At the end of our show, we will continue with our Monday bonus feature called TOP SPOT.

Celebrating the International Women's Day, Martina and Kamila talk to tourists in front of the Presidential palace shortly before the first ever Slovak female President will leave it to another man.

What was the week like in Slovakia? Overview of the news in the FrontPage magazine and pick of the interesting parts of our programming this week.

Ben and Patka visit the Ukrainian culture center in Bratislava, discuss the week, play some music and of course read some letters. Re-run

Paying tribute to the last rose breeder in Slovakia who passed away on Saturday, 24 February 2024, we get back to the series tracing the work of internationally acclaimed 19th century rose breeder Rudolf Geschwind. As he was a great role model for Szilvester Gyory, we will present to you some of Geschwind's rose varieties that have been popular in Norh America, Iceland, Scandinavian countries as w...

In this edition of the Slovakia Today programme, we bring you an interview with Michael Baum, the head of the political section of the British Embassy in Slovakia as well as an interview with Beáta Ničová, a majorette trainer in the gold-winning majorette club MK Flowers based in Prešov, eastern Slovakia.

Ben Pascoe talks space exploration with scientist/research engineer in space science and technology, member of International Academy of Astronautics, Dr. Jan Balaz at his workshop at the Department of Space Physics at the Slovak Academy of Sciences.

In this show, we will present what the kitchens at the noble courts in the Kingdom of Hungary in the modern period looked like. We will commemorate the first ride of the tram from Bratislava to Vienna. We will provide travelling news and tips for trips around Slovakia. At the end of our show, we will continue with our Monday bonus feature called TOP SPOT.

Sundays are about our listeners. Ben and Patka visit the Ukrainian Cultural center in Bratislava and discuss the week, play some music and read your letters.

What was the week like in Slovakia? Overview of the news in the FrontPage magazine and pick of the interesting parts of our programming this week.

As the new semester starts at Comenius University in Bratislava, Patrícia Arpášová and Martin Bednárik talk about student mobility programmes including ERASMUS+. We read the letters of our listeners and play some music.

While talking about her long-running research, Slovak Academy of Sciences academic Ivana Hostova gives her tips for Slovak poetry to be read in English. 2024 brings several changes into evaluation of quality design of quality Slovak books. Playing music in the memory of murdered couple - Jan Kuciak and Martina Kusnirova. Tips for culture invite English speakers to a festival of chamber music and t...

As Slovakia's manufacturing sector privatized and modernized, many hulking and once prosperous factories and mills were left rusting and forgotten. This was true for the Merina textile factory in Trencin. It may have survived two world wars and tremendous political upheaval, but it could not withstand the fierce competition from cheap, foreign textiles. In this episode, we look at this factory com...

To commemorate the 25th anniversary of Ivan Bella’s trip to space Ben Pascoe talks to Ivan Bella, the first and so-far only Slovak to travel to space. He also talks with scientist and research engineer Dr. Ján Baláž and Vice-President of the International Astronautical Federation (IAF) Michal Brichta.

In this show, we will talk about history of Slovak cuisine, specifically in the modern period. We will provide travelling news and tips for trips around Slovakia. At the end of our show, we will continue with our Monday bonus feature called TOP SPOT.

As the new semester starts at Comenius University in Bratislava, Patrícia Arpášová and Martin Bednárik talk about student mobility programmes including ERASMUS+. We read the letters of our listeners and play some music.

What was the week like in Slovakia? Overview of the news in the FrontPage magazine and pick of the interesting parts of our programming this week.