The 10-day celebration of the 10-year anniversary of the start of the broadcast will start at 8:15 p.m. on The First of September with live coverage of the concert from prague’s Doupa Club, during which two dozen performers will perform, among them David Koller, PSH, Dagmar Peck, Adam Plachetka, Stefan Margita, Kamil Střihavka or Lenka Dusilová.

One of a number of gifts will also be the premiere of a documentary about the 90-year history of the Barrandov studios called Magic Hill. Actors and directors Iva Janžurová, Jan Kačer, Jaromír Hanzlík, Hynek Bočan or Karel Smyczek recall the filming of important titles from their filmography and domestic cinema. “The key to the narrative was not to look for the most difficult period, but for important creators and drivers of barrandov events, on whose micro stories and fates we wanted to tell the story of the famous studios,” states director and screenwriter Roman Vávra. The picture will be released by Art at 8:15 p.m. on Saturday, September 9.

Eight episodes on a distinct period in the history of Czechoslovakian architecture are documented in a new series whose creators sought a comprehensive view without ideological prejudice. “The Architecture series 58-89 covers the most important but also the most interesting and perhaps neglected structures. We have documented, for example, the demolition of Transgas in Prague’s Vinohrady or the telephone exchange in Dejvice,” says author of the theme and musician Vladimir 518. “We knew with the cameraman Jiri Malko that in order to say anything about the structures, we had to spend some time with them. To be in them. Notice the details,” the cycle’s director Jan Zajíček further explains.A variety of perspectives on music, production and other topics will be brought to the audience by the eight-part documentary The Musicians. He introduces three female artists in each episode. “This is an intimate insight into the lives of twenty-four musicians, who are a kind of representative sample of a very large and growing stream of women who in the Czech Republic have chosen to express themselves on life through music and sometimes authortext,” says Dagmar Smržová, the cycle’s director.

On October 25, Marek Eben will welcome a nine-hundred-year-old guest on his talk show On the Floor. He will be actor and musician Russell Crowe. Next January, the show will celebrate twenty-five years since the first half-hour interview aired. “I had the longest conversation in front of the cameras with Quincy Jones, a regular genius who produced Michael Jackson’s most famous albums, and as it turns out, he’s not only a great musician, he’s also an excellent storyteller. And then with Ivan Passer, the director and screenwriter, who I could listen to all day. After all, they were the only two guests on whom we needed to make swimming pools two, because anything cut out would be a sin,” presenter Marek Eben notes.

In addition to the mediated cultural experiences in its programme, ČT art will also offer a visit to several selected museums and galleries in Prague, Brno and Ostrava on the first weekend of September, free of charge for those interested. Details, interviews and photographs for the Gift Week as well as art’s autumn chart are available on Czech Television’s ePress.