It is one of the most lavish movie theatres to be built in its time, a pioneering monument to the new medium of cinema, a palace for the dreams of […]
With the anonymity of urban life in a globalized world, we hear every day of people who have died alone and unidentified. In Amsterdam there are about 20 such cases […]
“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 […]
This Research File Special is all about Global Warming and how it will affect the health of people all around the planet. It coincides with this year’s UN Climate Change […]
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 […]
In this first part of a six-part series produced for Media Network in the 1980’s, in the heat of the Cold War, Jonathan Marks delves into the earliest attempts to […]
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 has […]
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. […]
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 […]