Zvuky Prahy / Sounds of Prague
terénní nahrávky, zvukové umění, rádio, zvukové procházky
field recordings, sound art, radio, sound walks
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Vila bratří Čapků na Vinohradech

Villa of Josef and Karel Čapek in Vinohrady

Tags: people interviews archive radio
Creator: alexander (Alexander Honzák)
Submitted: 2012-01-18
Recorded: 1937-12-24
Licence: Creative Commons Licence
Download: 120117003852.mp3

An example of the ethos with which Radio Prague joined the airwaves was an experiment done on Christmas day in 1937, when a live radio bridge was attempted between India, Prague and the United States to allow writer Karel Čapek and inventor František Křižík to exchange messages of goodwill for the coming year with Albert Einstein in Princeton and the Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore in Bengal.