Debate 70 years of Radio Free Europe (online 20. 5. 2021)

On May 1, 1951, from a studio in Munich, Germany, the voice of free Czechoslovakia, the radio station Svobodna Evropa, was heard on the air for the first time. Neither jammers, nor agents, nor bomb attacks silenced the broadcast of "Svobodka". After August 1968, when thousands of people, including artists and journalists, fled abroad, the writer Josef Jedlička, Karel Jezdinský, the poet Ivan Diviš, the singer-songwriter Karel Kryl, the journalists Lída Rakušanová and Petr Brod collaborated with the editors of Svobodna Evropa. The latter will be one of the guests of the debate that will be moderated on the Havel Channel on 20 May 2021 at 7 pm by the former dissident and initiator of the Museum of Memory of the 20th Century, Hana Kordová Marvanová. Joining them to talk about Radio Free Europe will be historian Radek Schovánek and former Voice of America editor Jolyon Naegele. The recording will be available on the Václav Havel Library's YouTube channel. The discussion is part of a series of joint evenings of the Václav Havel Library and the Museum of the Memory of the 20th Century.