TURNING THE PAGES In 1935, Robert Brouwer bought an autograph book from a small shop in Amsterdam. A few days each week he would stand outside the city’s world […]
During wars and their immediate aftermath, the United Nations and international aid organisations try to help deal with people’s most immediate needs: food, shelter, water and sanitation. In recent years, […]
Bev Ditsie was 17 when she first met Simon Nkoli, founder of South Africa’s first gay and lesbian organization: GLOW. Simon became her mentor, her role model and, most […]
Rotterdam’s Poetry International Festival 2003 had a special program to highlight minority languages, such as Welsh, Mayan, Corsican, and Livonian. This program features interviews with the Welsh and Livonian poets. […]
In this programme we hear the strange story of the Dutch Island of Schokland. For centuries islanders battled against the raging Zuider sea. In 1859 they lost the fight and […]
There are very good reasons for calling “the most excellent and great sovereign prince Pyotr Aleskeyevich, leader of all the Russias” czar Peter the Great. It is impossible to exaggerate […]
India literature produced the single longest poem in history, the great epic Mahabarata. Today the ancient story-telling and poetry recital traditions of India live on in “Bollywood”, the world’s biggest […]
While some people are simply reminded of handkerchief designs at the sight of a canvas by the Dutch artist Piet Mondrian (1872-1944), there is no doubt that he was one […]
Born in Seoul, South Korea in 1948, Kyung Wha Chung became an internationally renowned violinist. She was a child prodigy, even by the standards of her siblings, a family of […]
Isabelle Agneta Elisabeth van Tuyll van Serooskerken (1740-1805) was her full name at birth, an impressive enough name on its own. She came to be known as simply Belle […]
India relaxed its laws on foreign investments in 1991 and opened its doors to market liberalization. By the time this programme was made a few years later, India was being […]
Now if you live in the Far North and you think you’ve spotted a polar bear rummaging through your trash, or a moose wandering around your back yard, or even […]
Shipwrecks can take many forms, and they do not always involve ships. The great poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge knew this, and he used the imagery of the fight for survival […]
Kristina Goikoetxea Langarka: “Twelve hours is a long time” After spending thirty years at an African mission post Daniel returns to his home town somewhere in Southern Europe. He […]
Ivo Michiels: “Amandine, or the thousand letters of love” Every now and then she has to open doors for colleagues of the Red Cross aid agency, but she also writes love […]