For her time, Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717) was a modern, daring, scandalous, divorced woman who lived in a cloister and at age 52 went off to Dutch Suriname to fulfill […]
David Swatling’s portrait of Tennesseee Williams in New Orleans, highlighting his famous play “A Streetcar Named Desire” (with sound clips from the movie). The context is provided by a Williams […]
When this programme was made in 2000, the world celebrated the 20th anniversary of the global eradication of the dreaded smallpox disease. Encouraged by this tremendous achievement, a global campaign […]
In 1950, the topic of European unity was being talked about in Holland as much as it is today but for very different reasons. It was just five years after […]
The Black Death, or Great Plague, was one of the most devastating waves of disease and death in human history. Modern historians of the Middle Ages estimate that up to […]
In the early 2000’s, Dheera Sujan and Michele Ernsting teamed up to produce “Vox Humana”, a weekly documentary, which they themselves admit defied description. The programme won numerous international awards. […]
