We parodied the Spartakiad [sports parade] with coffee mills
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Čestmír Klos was born in 1943 in Velichovky into the family of a bricklayer and a working mother, which was unusual at the time. While attending grammar school, he developed an interest in mathematics and physics, but also in theatre and music. He went on to graduate from the Aviation Faculty of the Military Academy in Brno. During his studies, he played in a satirical theatre troupe, he then started working as a programmer of an ICT 1905 mainframe computer at Aero Vodochody and ČKD. At the same time, he recorded radio programmes at the Brno broadcasting studio. After quitting this job, from 1968 to 1983, he worked as an editor of the magazine Melodie, he co-created the television programme series Písničky pod rentgenem (Songs Under X-Ray), and he helped organise the music Melodie Awards. In 1983, he and the whole editorial staff of Melodie were fired because the magazine continued to retain its remarkably critical and independent approach even during the period of normalisation. He started working for the magazine Krkonoše (Giant Mountains), hoping to improve public knowledge about the reasons why the mountain range‘s forests were drying out. In the 1980‘s, he was also influential in stopping the extensive project of constructing a ski lift to the top of Mount Sněžka (the highest mountain in the Czech Republic). From 1990, he wrote articles for the renewed daily Lidové noviny (People‘s News), in 1994 he switched over to the newly established news magazine Týden (Week), whence he moved to the magazine Euro in 2002. Since 2010, he has published on the internet news site Česká pozice (Czech Position). In 1994, he began preparing the weekly radio programme Zeměžluč (Centaurium) for the Czech version of Radio Free Europe - this was later taken up by Czech Radio 6. From March 2013, the new channel Czech Radio Plus replaced Zeměžluč with a programme called Ekofórum.
