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Slovakia Today, English Language Current Affairs Programme from Slovak Radio
Slovakia Today is an English language current affairs magazine bringing you the best from Slovakia. Our daily broadcast covers the latest from politics, society, arts and culture, business, science, healthcare and sports. Coming to you from Bratislava, from the studios of Radio Slovakia International – the foreign language channel of the public broadcaster STVR. Making Slovakia heard to the world!
Episodes
- Slovakia Today, English Language Current Affairs Programme from Slovak Radio
Art Film International Film Festival in Košice (25.6.2025 16:00)
On Friday, June 19th, the Art Film International Film Festival opened in Košice, drawing visitors from across the globe. This celebrated event showcases not…
- Slovakia Today, English Language Current Affairs Programme from Slovak Radio
Summer 2025: Cultural programs around Slovakia (24.6.2025 16:00)
Ben Pascoe takes a look at the cultural programs being offered all around Slovakia this summer.
- Slovakia Today, English Language Current Affairs Programme from Slovak Radio
Olympic gold medalist Matej Tóth, plus Slovak Sound Check (23.6.2025 16:00)
Matej Tóth, Olympic gold medalist in the 50 km walk from Rio 2016 and one of Slovakia’s most celebrated athletes, founded his Academy back in 2016 to help…
- Slovakia Today, English Language Current Affairs Programme from Slovak Radio
Week in Slovakia No. 25 (21.6.2025 16:00)
We take a look back at the week's headlines and some of our best stories from the past week.
- Slovakia Today, English Language Current Affairs Programme from Slovak Radio
The Fest Anča, ArtFilm, Kvantum, and Pohoda festivals in 2025 (20.6.2025 16:00)
What's new about Fest Anča, ArtFilm, Kvantum and Pohoda festivals in 2025? Teams, headliners, topics. Culture tips also about the final concerts of 2024/25…
- Slovakia Today, English Language Current Affairs Programme from Slovak Radio
A conversation with two Irish men who found their new home in Bratislava (19.6.2025 16:00)
Discussing life in Bratislava with two Irish men who found their new home in Slovakia.
- Slovakia Today, English Language Current Affairs Programme from Slovak Radio
Previously aired interviews by RSI's Kamila Galjuš (18.6.2025 16:00)
A re-run of some of the interviews published before prepared by our colleague Kamila Galjuš.
- Slovakia Today, English Language Current Affairs Programme from Slovak Radio
V4 Buisness Conference organized by the Council of Slovak Exporters (17.6.2025 16:00)
Ben Pascoe attends the V4 Buisness Conference organized by the Council of Slovak Exporters. He talks with organizers and learns about the MH2 concept car. He…
- Slovakia Today, English Language Current Affairs Programme from Slovak Radio
Dotyky a spojenia: Slovakia’s biggest theatre festival (16.6.2025 16:00)
Slovakia’s biggest theatre festival Dotyky a spojenia celebrates its 20th edition this June, running from the 16th to the 21st in the city of Martin. Since its…
- Slovakia Today, English Language Current Affairs Programme from Slovak Radio
Week in Slovakia No. 24 (14.6.2025 16:00)
We take a look back at the week's headlines and some of our best stories from the past week.
- Slovakia Today, English Language Current Affairs Programme from Slovak Radio
The removal of Cecilia Gonzaga bust from the Spiš Museum, The Days of Early Music Festival, and Culture Tips (13.6.2025 16:00)
Masked officials, accompanied by the Culture Ministry’s Chief-of-Staff, removed a bust of Cecilia Gonzaga from the Spiš Museum, prompting legal concerns from…
- Slovakia Today, English Language Current Affairs Programme from Slovak Radio
Spare Parts Theatre; Episode 2 of Windows to the World; and spotlight on Vávro Šrobár (12.6.2025 16:00)
In the programming, we will revisit an interview with Tomáš Eštok in which we’ll explore Spare Parts Theatre, an independent theatre group bringing…
- Slovakia Today, English Language Current Affairs Programme from Slovak Radio
Trenčín's mighty hockey legacy and the school at its heart (11.6.2025 16:00)
In this episode of Slovakia Today, we take you to the heart of Trenčín—a city with a mighty hockey legacy and a school that's been nurturing future stars for…
- Slovakia Today, English Language Current Affairs Programme from Slovak Radio
Fourth international hobby horsing competition in Bratislava (10.6.2025 16:00)
Bratislava recently hosted the 4th international hobby horsing competition. Ben Pascoe attended and talked with organizers, participants and parents about this…
- Slovakia Today, English Language Current Affairs Programme from Slovak Radio
HIV/AIDS Slovensko, plus Slovak Sound Check Episode 5 (9.6.2025 16:00)
Currently, 1,648 people in Slovakia are living with HIV. In 2024 alone, 63 new cases have been diagnosed. While proper treatment can ensure the virus poses no…
- Slovakia Today, English Language Current Affairs Programme from Slovak Radio
Week in Slovakia No. 23 (7.6.2025 16:00)
A look back at the week's headlines and some of our reports.
- Slovakia Today, English Language Current Affairs Programme from Slovak Radio
The Bratislava Declaration calls for European Act on Artistic Freedom, plus Days of Early Music Festival in Bratislava (6.6.2025 16:00)
The Bratislava Declaration was adopted last week in the Slovak capital, calling on the European Union to draft a European Act on Artistic Freedom—a legal…
- Slovakia Today, English Language Current Affairs Programme from Slovak Radio
Wetlands and Welds: Nature protection and scientific legacy in Slovakia (5.6.2025 16:00)
In today’s episode, we begin with Andrea Froncová from the BROZ conservation association, who highlights the crucial role of wetlands in protecting…
- Slovakia Today, English Language Current Affairs Programme from Slovak Radio
A look back at Kamila's favorite stories (4.6.2025 16:00)
A re-run of two previously published interviews with the producer Ada Solomon who visited Slovakia during the 2025 FEBIO Fest in Bratislava and the frontman…
- Slovakia Today, English Language Current Affairs Programme from Slovak Radio
Post Bellum, a civic association helping maintain the nation's memory (3.6.2025 16:00)
Ben Pascoe talks with Juraj Rizman from Post Bellum about how they help maintain the nation's memory and about his most recent visit to Ukraine.
- Slovakia Today, English Language Current Affairs Programme from Slovak Radio
Reintroducing Slovak musician Lotta through her music with KEXP's Kevin Cole (2.6.2025 16:00)
Reintroducing Slovak musician Lotta through her music with KEXP's Kevin Cole. Shortly after the Rose festival in Dolna Krupa, western Slovakia, we map the…
- Slovakia Today, English Language Current Affairs Programme from Slovak Radio
Week in Slovakia No. 22 (31.5.2025 16:00)
Weekly news digest combined with some of the stories from the past week.
- Slovakia Today, English Language Current Affairs Programme from Slovak Radio
The first English translation of "René, or: A Young Man's Adventures and Experiences", plus Slovak Sound Check & Culture Tips (30.5.2025 16:00)
The first novel ever written in the territory of present-day Slovakia has just been released in its first English translation. Martina Greňová Šimkovičová…
- Slovakia Today, English Language Current Affairs Programme from Slovak Radio
Pushing limits: Slovak female triathlete makes XTRI history. (29.5.2025 16:00)
In this interview, Romana Grajcarová speaks with Slovak triathlete Nikola Čorbová, the first woman ever to win Himalayan Xtri. Čorbová reflects on this…
- Slovakia Today, English Language Current Affairs Programme from Slovak Radio
Virologist Dr. Boris Klempa on zoonotic viruses, the European Virus Archive, & combating misinformation in science (28.5.2025 16:00)
In Slovakia, research is underway both in laboratories and even on farms, as scientists work to better understand and combat infectious diseases. One of the…
- Slovakia Today, English Language Current Affairs Programme from Slovak Radio
Part II: International summit Start with Children hosted by Bratislava (27.5.2025 16:00)
Continuing with interviews from the Start with Children summit recently held in Bratislava. Today Ben Pascoe talks with keynote speaker Eva Kail from Vienna…
- Slovakia Today, English Language Current Affairs Programme from Slovak Radio
Project Disconnect: Exploring loneliness and social isolation in Slovakia (26.5.2025 16:00)
RERUN Project Disconnect aims to comprehensively and interdisciplinaryly explore loneliness and social isolation in Slovakia. In this show, we are going to…
- Slovakia Today, English Language Current Affairs Programme from Slovak Radio
Week in Slovakia No. 21 (24.5.2025 16:00)
Weekly news digest followed by some of the topical stories of the past week.
- Slovakia Today, English Language Current Affairs Programme from Slovak Radio
WHO Pandemic Agreement: Slovakia’s abstention explained. Culture tips. Usefull Slovak phrases. (23.5.2025 16:00)
Professor Jozef Šuvada, Slovakia's representative in the WHO Executive Board, explains what it means that Slovakia abstained form the WHO Pandemic Agreement…
- Slovakia Today, English Language Current Affairs Programme from Slovak Radio
International Day for Biodiversity with EMYS, a project focusing on biotope restoration (22.5.2025 16:00)
In the interview with Andrea Froncová, we discussed biodiversity and a new project called EMYS, which focuses on biotope restoration and the protection of the…
- Slovakia Today, English Language Current Affairs Programme from Slovak Radio
The Slovak Theatre in London, plus two young filmmakers from eastern Slovakia (21.5.2025 16:00)
In this episode of the Slovakia Today programme, we bring you the interview with the founder and manager of the Slovak Theatre in London Simona Vrabcová and…
- Slovakia Today, English Language Current Affairs Programme from Slovak Radio
Part I: International summit Start with Children hosted by Bratislava (20.5.2025 16:00)
Bratislava played host to the international summit Start with Children. Experts from around the country and the world met to discuss how thinking about…
- Slovakia Today, English Language Current Affairs Programme from Slovak Radio
Exploring the problem of growing poverty in Slovakia (19.5.2025 16:00)
Recent data from Eurostat show that over 14% of Slovak population lives on the poverty line. In this show, we are going to explore the problem of growing…
- Slovakia Today, English Language Current Affairs Programme from Slovak Radio
Week in Slovakia No. 20 (17.5.2025 16:00)
Slovakia Today takes a look back at the past week. The biggest headlines and highlights from our reports.
- Slovakia Today, English Language Current Affairs Programme from Slovak Radio
Irish playwright Marina Carr, Culture Tips, and Slovak Sound Check (16.5.2025 16:00)
Famous Irish playwright Marina Carr dropped by Bratislava for a masterclass at the New Drama Festival. She chatted with Martina Greňová Šimkovičová about what…
- Slovakia Today, English Language Current Affairs Programme from Slovak Radio
ALKA: With authenticity and care. No sense does not mean nonsense. (15.5.2025 16:00)
Majka Reviľáková and Miška Vlasáková, founders of the ALKA project, talk about the process of including vulnerable children in everyday life at school and…
- Slovakia Today, English Language Current Affairs Programme from Slovak Radio
Country Roads: Trenčianske Teplice (14.5.2025 16:00)
As many tourists and foreign residents have discovered, Slovakia is much more than its charming capital, Bratislava. From villages adorned with mysterious folk…
- Slovakia Today, English Language Current Affairs Programme from Slovak Radio
A visit to the spring edition of Bratislava's Dobrý Trh, the Good Market (13.5.2025 16:00)
Ben Pascoe visits the spring edition of Dobry Trh, the good market, and shares with you the sounds and feelings that make the event so unique and special.
- Slovakia Today, English Language Current Affairs Programme from Slovak Radio
The life and work of Slovak musical legend, filmmaker, and thinker Dežo Ursíny (12.5.2025 16:00)
May 2nd, 2025 marked the 30th anniversary of Dežo Ursíny's passing. This radio show looks at the life and work of this Slovak musical legend, filmmaker, and…
- Slovakia Today, English Language Current Affairs Programme from Slovak Radio
Slovak anti-war literature in translation: a discussion with Julia Sherwood (9.5.2025 16:00)
Leopold Lahola was an acclaimed Slovak filmmaker who fled Czechoslovakia in 1949. His only collection of short stories, The Last Thing, is unsettling in the…
- Slovakia Today, English Language Current Affairs Programme from Slovak Radio
WWII 80: Queer desire in the Holocaust with historian Anna Hájková (8.5.2025 16:00)
In today’s program, you’ll hear an interview with historian Anna Hájková about her book People Without History Are Dust: Queer Desire in the Holocaust, as well…
- Slovakia Today, English Language Current Affairs Programme from Slovak Radio
East Slovak Gallery in Košice, plus Romani violinist Barbora Botošová (7.5.2025 16:00)
In this episode, we will bring you two previously-run interviews with the director of the East Slovak Gallery in Košice Dorota Kenderová and Miroslav Kleban…
- Slovakia Today, English Language Current Affairs Programme from Slovak Radio
Springtime and the world championship of hockey (6.5.2025 16:00)
It is spring in Slovakia, which means it is time for the world championship of hockey. To discuss the national sport of Slovakia Ben Pascoe sat down with…
- Slovakia Today, English Language Current Affairs Programme from Slovak Radio
Remembering the legacy of Holocaust survivor Eva Mosnáková (5.5.2025 16:00)
RERURN: Eva Mosnáková was not only a holocaust survivor, but also a long-standing figther against extremism. Even in her old age she invested a lot of time in…
- Slovakia Today, English Language Current Affairs Programme from Slovak Radio
Week in Slovakia No. 18 (3.5.2025 16:00)
Overview of news and stories RSI brought to you over the past week.
- Slovakia Today, English Language Current Affairs Programme from Slovak Radio
A look back: Slovakia's acceptance to the EU (2.5.2025 16:00)
Martina Greňová Šimkovičová takes a trip down memory lane as she recalls the days when Slovakia joined the European Union.
- Slovakia Today, English Language Current Affairs Programme from Slovak Radio
The history and symbolism of May 1st in Slovakia (1.5.2025 16:00)
Today we explore the history and symbolism of May 1st in Slovakia, from its socialist-era significance as Labour Day to its roots in international workers’…
- Slovakia Today, English Language Current Affairs Programme from Slovak Radio
Project Trebo – Culture Connects, a partnership between Slovakia and Norway, plus a look at controversial bear culling (30.4.2025 16:00)
In recent years, international relations have faced a series of setbacks. Yet amid the challenges, there have been encouraging examples of how people from…
- Slovakia Today, English Language Current Affairs Programme from Slovak Radio
1. May in Nova Cvernovka and Dobry Trh is back again (29.4.2025 16:00)
For the 15th year the artists and artisans at Nova Cvernovaka will open their doors to the public and there will be a day full of programs. On 10th May will be…
- Slovakia Today, English Language Current Affairs Programme from Slovak Radio
Celebrating the 80th anniversary of Slovakia's Centre of Folk Art Production (ÚĽUV) (28.4.2025 16:00)
This Monday show will commemorate the 80th anniversary of the Centre of Folk Art Production (ÚĽUV) in Slovakia. The discussion will feature Eva Ševčíková, the…
- Slovakia Today, English Language Current Affairs Programme from Slovak Radio
Week in Slovakia No. 17 (26.4.2025 16:00)
A look back at headlines and the stories brought to you as a tribute to the late Pope Francis.
- Slovakia Today, English Language Current Affairs Programme from Slovak Radio
Slovak saxophone player Michaela Turcerová, plus culture tips for May 1st (25.4.2025 16:00)
2024 Radio_Head winner for Best Experimental Album, Michaela Turcerová, lives in Copenhagen, where she studied at the prestigious Rhythmic Music Conservatory…
- Slovakia Today, English Language Current Affairs Programme from Slovak Radio
Efforts to protect and restore two unique natural sites in Slovakia (24.4.2025 16:00)
In this episode, we focus on two unique natural sites and the efforts to protect and restore them. First, we visit the Šúr nature reserve, located near…
- Slovakia Today, English Language Current Affairs Programme from Slovak Radio
A tribute to the late Pope Francis (23.4.2025 16:00)
In this episode of the Slovakia Today programme, we bring you a tribute to the late pope Francis in the form of an overview of contributions previously…
- Slovakia Today, English Language Current Affairs Programme from Slovak Radio
A look back at the 2024 Start with Children Conference in Bratislava (22.4.2025 16:00)
Ben Pascoe attended the Start with Children conference (2024) in Bratislava and talks with experts both foreign and Slovak about the importance of thinking…
- Slovakia Today, English Language Current Affairs Programme from Slovak Radio
Easter Monday special: Traditional Slovak Easter cuisine by region (21.4.2025 16:00)
We all celebrate Easter in Slovakia at the same time, but completely differently, especially when it comes to food. In today's holiday show, we'll talk about…
- Slovakia Today, English Language Current Affairs Programme from Slovak Radio
Week in Slovakia No. 16 (19.4.2025 16:00)
A look back at headlines and stories from the past week in Slovakia
- Slovakia Today, English Language Current Affairs Programme from Slovak Radio
Special: Good Friday (18.4.2025 16:00)
Good Friday special with the Holy Sepulchre in Spišská Sobota, the Calvary in Prešov and a talk with Ben Kosnac about Roman Catholic Good Friday practices, as…
- Slovakia Today, English Language Current Affairs Programme from Slovak Radio
Alice Garrigue Masaryková and the Czechoslovak Red Cross, plus Easter traditions in Slovakia (17.4.2025 16:00)
In today’s programme, we’ll explore the life and work of Alice Garrigue Masaryková, a key figure in the development of the Czechoslovak Red Cross and the…