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Sunday Feature: In the Shadow of Kafka - Prophet of Prague

Series 1, episode 0

As part of Radio 3's In the Shadow of Kafka season, Misha Glenny journeys to Prague to examine how Franz Kafka's life and ideas were shaped by his native city at a critical point in European history at the start of the 20th century. Misha visits key locations including the Workers Accident Insurance Institute where Kafka worked as an insurance lawyer. He examines the global influences on Kafka's ideas: the esoteric philosophies circulating in Prague's cafes, the politics and paranoia of an empire in decline and the rising tide of Czech nationalism which threatened to engulf the Jewish old town where the Kafka's lived