Dutch psychiatrist Jan Bastiaans (1917-1997) identified this syndrome and developed a treatment for it, sometimes using LSD, which was highly controversial but effective. It not only applies to victims of […]
Yearly Archives: 1985
Pete Myers reports on how radical theology works in the Philippines, the only predominantly Catholic country in Asia. The programme includes a contribution from correspondent Keith Dalton, an interview with […]
In this documentary, Roger Broadbent looks at the confusion that has arrived with the introduction of cable and satellite TV (and thus foreign commercial TV). It means a violation of […]
At the height of the international debate on the deployment of a new generation of nuclear missiles in both East and West, Amsterdam hosted a five-day conference on what an […]
Pete Myers and Bert Steinkamp present a documentary about the Dutch hunger winter of 1944. People who lived through this horrible period towards the end of the Second World War […]
Highlights from the 1985 Afroscene season: John Hammond (1933-2012) lists all the (attempted) coups in the continent that year – November 1985 Reverend Beyers-Naudé, Secretary General of the South African […]
Pete Myers remembers his earliest exposure to music, from his childhood in India to the days he accompanied African performers to the Soviet Union. Part 1: Childhood memories of Fred […]
40 years after the the end of World War Two, Pete Myers presents a collage of studio-read recollections of the war years. There are also contributions from survivors themselves. The […]