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 […]
Yearly Archives: 1982
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As part of a short series of Saturday Stage progammes, Jonathan Marks introduces a two-part programme on Paul van Vliet. In the 1970’s and 1980’s, van Vliet – a leading […]
Roald Dahl (1916-1990) was without a doubt the most successful 20th-century children’s book author in the pre-Harry Potter age. In 1982, he was guest of honour at the annual Children’s […]
Gerard Rakers talks to South African heart transplant pioneer Dr. Christaan Barnard about his book: “The Body Machine”. Producer: Gerard Rakers Broadcast: 1982
This documentary tells the story of the Battle of Arnhem in September 1944. It combines rare archive material with the memories of both civilians and soldiers who took part in […]
In 1982, Radio Netherlands’ Transcription Service produced a number of African short stories. Most of them have survived. A number of them were later (in 1985) also broadast in our […]
During the 1980’s, Pete Myers and his team hosted the weekly magazine Mainstream Asia. In this edition, the programme looks at the plight of the Vietnamese refugee community in the […]
This edition of Media Wars looks at how governments often make a mess of the message they are trying to put across. We started with Radio South Atlantic, which was […]