Who Produced the Best News Report? Twelve Pieces Are Competing
A listening session and discussion will take place on the second day of the international Prix Bohemia Radio festival and the winner of the best news report will be announced. The international category is reserved for radio reports that had to satisfy several conditions.
The reports could not be more than 10 minutes long and had to be broadcast between 1 January 2017 and 31 December 2017 in the Visegrád Four – Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and Poland – or in one of the invited countries, i.e., Romania and Germany.
This year, twenty-two participants from the Czech Republic and eight from abroad applied. All eight foreign reports advanced automatically to the next round. Four reports will represent Czech Radio.
Unlike last year, which was dominated by the refugee crisis, the themes this year are disparate, and visitors can look forward to the diversity of the reports. The foreign reporters reported on, for example, soldiers in Afghanistan, the homeless in Hungary and a cinema in Poland. You can also listen to how a lesson in the Czech language is given in Saxony.
Jan Herget’s look at the work of physicians in Motol hospital was one of the reports selected from the Czech submissions. During the report, listeners will witness physicians trying to save the life of a patient who fell into the tracks of the metro. Jan Suchan then tries to acquaint listeners with five-a-side football, a sport the Czechs are world champions in and one that has existed in the Czech Republic for over seventy years.
You can hear the reports on Tuesday, 20 March 2018, at Palacký University Arts Centre, where a jury made up of experts will choose the winner in this category. The whole programme begins at 9:30 a.m.
Look HERE to see who was shortlisted in the News Report category.
