The first program in a three-part series commemorating the 225th anniversary of the arrival in Amsterdam of John Adams. He would later become the second president of the newly independent […]
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. […]
This programme was produced in 2003 to mark the 500th anniversary of what many consider to be the most famous painting in the world. The mysterious smile of Leonardo da […]
In 1989, civil war broke out in the West African nation of Liberia. During the seven year battle for power, it’s estimated that over 150,000 people were killed, and one […]
As a young rising star in radio at the BBC, Pete Myers interviewed some of the most memorable people in the entertainment world of his time. He decided in 1972 […]
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 […]
Lieve Joris: “Bollieke” Lieve Joris is an internationally acclaimed, award-winning travel writer from Belgium. Her writing focusses chiefly on Africa, the Middle East and eastern Europe, and several of […]
NILGUN YERLI : “Feelings without Frontiers” Nilgun Yerli is a Dutch writer and cabaret artist, born in Turkey in 1969 and living in the Netherlands since the age of ten. […]