The Edison Award, the annual Dutch distinction for achievement in music, is one of the world’s oldest music awards. First presented in 1960, the Edison goes to musicians and performers […]
Yearly Archives: 1989
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This is an unedited 40-minute interview with His Holiness the Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhists and one of the world’s most revered advocates of non-violence and altruism. […]
Dutch writer Jan de Hartog (1914-2002) was just in his mid-20’s when he suddenly became famous throughout Holland because of the unprecedented success of his best-selling novel “Hollands Glorie” (“Captain […]
By the late 1980’s, the Dutch prison system came in for praise from abroad for its low prison population – 6000 prisoners for a population of nearly 15 million – […]
In this unedited interview, Chris Chambers talks to lawyer and gay rights activist Kees Waaldijk who was the driving force behind the legalalisation of gay marriage in the Netherlands. He […]
Veronica Wilson speaks with couples, both African and Dutch, about the impact their choice of a partner has had on their relationship, their families, their lives and the difficulties of […]
Veronica Wilson’s studio guest is Del Richardson, lead singer and lead guitarist with Osibisa, the first African (pop) band that had a world-wide impact in the 1970’s. He talks about […]
Anne Blair Gould meets Robert Swan, the first man to walk to both the North and the South Pole. Apart from being a leading Pole explorer, Swan is also deeply […]