When the young soldiers who had fought in the trenches of World War I returned home after the armistice of 1918, they were no longer boys but men, many […]
“Classic Dutch” is a panorama of classical music composed or performed in the Netherlands through the centuries. Most of the music in this series was selected from among the huge […]
It was in the early 80’s that the first announcement was made about the disease that has come to be known as AIDS. In the late 80’s, David Swatling was […]
By the turn of the century, Afghanistan had been at war for nearly two decades. The Afghans first took up arms to oust the Soviet occupiers and then the conflict […]
On December 7, 1941, Japan launched a surprise attack on the American naval base in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, home of the U.S. Pacific fleet. The massive aerial attack claimed more […]
In this documentary made in 2006 we present personal stories from people who suffer from Lyme disease, a painful and exasperating ailment caused by the bite of the common deer […]
Prince Nico Mbarga, born in Nigeria in 1950, was a highlife musician renowned for his hit song “Sweet Mother”, which he recorded with his band Rocafil Jazz in 1976. Although […]
This is the story of two girls who kept diaries. One is Anne Frank, who lived in hiding in Amsterdam during the Nazi occupation. The other is Zlata Filipovic, who was […]
“Two countries divided by a common language” so said the Irish playwrite George Bernard Shaw about the difference between British and American English. American Robert Chesal and Brit Anne Blair […]
German has more native speakers in Europe than any other language in the EU: nearly one hundred million, most of whom live in the Federal Republic and Austria. Well into […]
Italian has about 70 million speakers in Italy. The language has the capacity to lift even people who cannot understand a word of the language to soaring heights, in the […]
The Romans never made it up as far north as Scandinavia and Christianity arrived late, so the languages in Europe’s far north did not undergo the influence of Latin that […]
When Columbus “discovered” America on behalf of King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella in 1492, he paved the way for Spanish to become the dominant language of Latin America. But Spanish […]