Prix Bohemia Radio presents shortlisted works selected for the main competition
About thirty works will compete at the Prix Bohemia Radio 2025 international radio festival. The 41st edition will take place in October in Olomouc. Overall, more then one hundred entries have been submitted to compete for the four main prizes in the Drama, Documentary, News Report and Podcast categories.
Thirty-four Documentaries, thirty-seven Dramas, thirty-five Czech and foreign News Reports and forty-five Podcasts have been entered into the next edition of the Prix Bohemia Radio Festival, which will take place from 19 to 23 October in Olomouc.
Expert juries chose the works selected for the main competition in all categories. Jury will be augmented by an independent student jury, which will decide on the winner of the Student Awards.
Visitors of the festival can again expect four days of listening to radio production and an accompanying programme of theatre performances, concerts, presentations of news and trends in the field of podcast production and many others.
Selected works in each category:
Documentary:
The Documentary national category is for radio documentaries with a maximum running time of 60 minutes, produced in the Czech Republic and broadcast by a Czech broadcaster between April 1, 2024, and March 31, 2025. Thirty-four documentaries in total were entered in this category. The jury selected six works for the main competition.
- The Biota of the City
Tereza Lišková and Ladislav Železný | Czech Radio - On Display
Jakub Horáček | Czech Radio - Mom, I’m trans
Andrew Novák | Czech Radio - Mám se tě bát, AILO?
Bronislava Janečková | Czech Radio - Racing and Restless
Ivona and Filip Remunda | Czech Radio - War Has No Soundtrack
Pavel Sterec | Czech Radio
News Report:
The international News Report category is open for a radio report with a maximum length of 10 minutes, published between April 1, 2024, and March 31, 2025 by a Czech or foreign broadcaster/distributor in the territory of the invited foreign broadcasters. Over 30 Czech and foreign News Reports were submitted to this section, from which the expert juries selected 4 Czech and 10 foreign finalists for the main competition.
- A Day in Odesa Under War
Diana Popkova | Suspilne Ukraine (JSC "UA: PBC") | Ukraine - Bulgaria: Labor migration is causing the country to die out
Martha Georgiew | ORF – Austrian Broadcasting Corporation | Austria - Dental services at home
Edita Vitė | Lithuanian National Radio and Television (LRT) | Lithuania - Druze in Golan Heights say goodbye to children killed in rocket attack
Štěpán Macháček | Czech Radio | Czech Republic - Fortress city: three years of full-scale war
Andrii Sokolov, Yuliya Nayda | Suspilne Ukraine (JSC "UA: PBC") | Ukraine - How police officers coped with the intervention at Charles University's Faculty of Arts
Marie Veselá | Czech Radio | Czech Republic - I don't owe anyone anything
Antoni Rokicki | Polish Radio | Poland - Parajanov is the National Legend of his Third Homeland - Ukraine
Anna Harutyunyan | Public Radio of Armenia | Armenia - Permanent address: Children's home - Samuel's story
Veronika Hlaváčová | Czech Radio | Czech Republic - 40-Day-Old Infant Rescued from Flood Returns to Karkop as Village Marks One Month Since the Disaster
Anna Harutyunyan | Public Radio of Armenia | Armenia - Romania: Why is the diaspora in Western Europe voting for anti-European candidates?
Markus Mueller-Schinwald | ORF – Austrian Broadcasting Corporation | Austria - The French story of an unknown war pilot from Czechoslovakia
Martin Balucha | Czech Radio | Czech Republic - We hope for the best, we fear the worst
Metka Pirc | Radio Slovenija (RTVSLO) | Slovenia
Drama:
The Drama national category is for original radio drama, adaptation or dramatization with a maximum running time of 60 minutes, produced in the Czech Republic and broadcast by a Czech broadcaster between April 1, 2024, and March 31, 2025. Thirty-seven works were entered in this category. The jury selected five finalists.
- Victoriia Kralko: Calls | Dramaturgy by Tereza Nováková, Marie Topolová, Directed by Bela Schenková, Music by Tomáš Zlámal, Sound Miloš Kot, Petr Janečka, Jiří Suchánek, David Šindelář, Production Denisa Burešová | AUDIOTÉKA.CZ s. r. o.
- Jiří Adámek Austerlitz: Mother of God, Banish Putin | Dramaturgy by Renata Venclová, Zuzana Šklíbová, Directed by Jiří Adámek Austerlitz, Music by Jiří Adámek Austerlitz, Pavel Šnajdr, Ladislav Železný, Sound Ladislav Železný | Czech Radio
- Lenka Veverková, Tomáš Dianiška: Snowdrops and Gangsters | Dramaturgy byTereza Nováková, Directed by Tomáš Dianiška, Music by Bojan Bojič, Sound David Šindelář, Bojan Bojič, Production Lucie Laňková | AUDIOTÉKA.CZ s. r. o.
- Delphine de Vigan: Gratitude | Dramaturgy by Marina Feltlová, Directed by Aleš Vrzák, Music by Miroslav Tóth, Sound Tomáš Pernický, Production Jana Knappová | Czech Radio
- Eva Blechová: Radiant Child | Dramaturgy by Klára Novotná, Directed by Natália Deáková, Music by Jan Trojan, Sound Dominik Budil, Production Dana Reichová | Czech Radio
Podcast:
The Podcast category was open to submissions of regular podcasts and closed podcast series in Czech that were published on the internet between April 1, 2024, and March 31, 2025. Forty-five projects were submitted in total, from which the expert jury selected ten finalists for the main competition.
- Operation: Blast
Authors Artur Janoušek, Vojtěch Koval and Ondřej Suchan, Sound Design Jaroslav Pokorný, Dramaturgy Markéta Chaloupská | Czech Radio - Cobain
Author Pavel Klusák, Script and Direction Pavel Klusák, Sound Design Ondřej Ježek, Music Václav Havelka, Cast Kateřina Císařová, Vojtěch Vondráček, Anita Krausová, Daniel Šváb, Sound Radim Dlesk, Creative producer Aleš Stuchlý, Production Barbora Vait and Petra Petříčková | Czech Radio - Odposlech
Authors Petr Gojda, Jiří Slavičínský, České centrum pro investigativní žurnalistiku | investigace.cz - Oh my hot
Author Hana Kuncová, Production and Direction Hana Kuncová, Script and Dramaturgy Adél Škvrna, Script Jasmína Lustigová, Sound design Pavel Jan, Matěj Lindner and Klára Ondračková | Oh My Hot - Crime Scene
Author Miroslav Vaňura, team Miroslav Vaňura, Dana Vaňurová and Leoš Sedláček | Czech Radio - Sirens
Authors Linda Bartošová, Aneta Martínková and Hana Řičicová, Production Hana Němečková (Storylab Audio), DOP Jan Jaskmanický, Social media Veronika Tichá | Storylab Audio - Delight
Author Linda Bartošová, Creative producer and Dramaturgy Veronika Ruppert, Visuals Iryna Drahun, Sound Jan Brauner, Music Laura Jašková | Czech Radio - Followers
Authors Vít Kubant, Martin Štorkán, Antonín Viktora, Damian Machaj, Reporters Vít Kubant and Martin Štorkán, Editor and Script Antonín Viktora, Direction Damian Machaj | Czech Radio/iROZHLAS.cz - Urgent
Authors Martin Pařízek, Ondřej Vaňura, Main Respondent Marek Dvořák, Sound Design Jaroslav Pokorný and Lukáš Sapík, Creative producer Lukáš Sapík | Czech Radio - Vinohradská 12: EXTREME
Authors Matěj Skalický, Jan Charvát and team Vinohradská 12 | Czech Radio
