Stanislav Motl Awarded Main International Prize for His Radio Programme "A Boy and the Stars" at Czech Radio 2 - Praha
Stanislav Motl´s radio programme “A Boy and the Stars”, part of the Czech Radio 2 – Praha series Traces, Facts, Mysteries, has received the prestigious 2010 AIBs International Media Excellence Award for the Best investigative documentary.
“It has been a great honour for Czech Radio 2 – Praha that their editorial team has such a journalistic personality among their members and that it has the opportunity to broadcast such an important programme cycle Traces, Facts, Mysteries,” said Jaromír Ostrý, CR2 – Praha editor-in-chief, about the co-operation with Stanislav Motl.
The Czech Radio 2 – Praha programme cycle Traces, Facts, Mysteries has been broadcast since January 2010 every Saturday at 12.15hr, repeated every Tuesday at 17.30hr. Each part is also available for download via the iradio application at Czech Radio webpage rozhlas.cz/iradio. So far 36 parts have been broadcasted.
“A Boy and the Stars” tells a story of a young Jewish boy Petr Ginz and his fascination with astronomy. At the age of thirteen, he came to the Terezin ghetto where he published together with his friends a magazine called Vedem, full of beautiful poetic texts and pictures. At the end of September 1944, Petr Ginz was transported to Auschwitz where Josef Mengele sent him to death in the sadly infamous gas chamber. He was sixteen years old. In 2003, the Israeli astronaut Ilan Ramon took with him on board of a space shuttle Columbia a picture Moon Landscape by Petr Ginz. On its way back Columbia encountered serious technical problems and all the astronauts died tragically. It happened on the 1st of February, a day of birth of Petr Ginz.
The ceremonial of the international media awards for the best radio and television programmes took place in St. Luke Church in East London which has been the traditional setting for the London Symphony Orchestra concerts. Czech Radio programme prevailed in a tough competition over such significant world radio stations as Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty, Middle East Broadcasting Networks, BBC World Service and others.
The award ceremony took place on Tuesday, 9 November 2010. AIB has been awarding these prizes for the fourth year already.
Mgr. Rene Zavoral
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