David Vaughan (Guest Speaker)

David Vaughan is a freelance writer, broadcaster, journalist and university lecturer. His novel Slyšte můj hlas (2014) won the Czech Book Prize readers’ award in 2015. The English version of the novel was published as Hear My Voice (2019) by Jantar Publishing in London. His previous book Battle for the Airwaves (2008) is a study of the role of the media – and radio in particular – during the period of the “Munich Crisis” of September 1938. As a broadcaster, David Vaughan has a long history of working with Czech Radio and the BBC. For eight years he was editor-in-chief of Radio Prague, the international service of Czech Radio, and prior to that he was the Prague correspondent of the BBC.