Czechoslovakia: it has been described at the most polluted country in the world, the planet’s garbage can. The epicentre of Czechoslovakia’s ecological disaster lies in northern Bohemia, 100 or so […]
Yearly Archives: 1991
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Portuguese is one of Europe’s world languages. With more than 200 million native speakers in Brazil alone, as compared to just over 10 million in Europe itself, Portuguese shares the […]
When Columbus “discovered” America on behalf of King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella in 1492, he paved the way for Spanish to become the dominant language of Latin America. But Spanish […]
Riccardo Chailly, was chief conductor of Amsterdam’s prestigious Concertgebouw Orchestra from 1988 to 2004, and in 2017 he was appointed music director of the world’s most famous opera house, La […]
Did you know that Picasso did not grow up speaking Spanish, that Richard Burton did not grow up speaking English and that Napoleon did not grow up speaking French? Nor […]
These are excerpts from the cultural magazine programme “Images”, produced by Nevil Gray. John Eliot Gardiner, conductor of the English baroque soloists on how to play Mozart Françoise Gilot (Picasso’s […]
The Romans never made it up as far north as Scandinavia, and Christianity arrived late, so the languages in Europe’s far north did not undergo the influence of Latin that […]
Italian has about 70 million speakers in Italy. The language has the capacity to lift even people who cannot understand a word of the language to soaring heights in the […]