The first part of a three-part co-production looking at aspects of national cuisine and the customs associated with serving and receiving food in Scotland, Ireland and the Netherlands. Part One […]
Monthly Archives: January 1998
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By the time Queen Beatrix celebrated her 60th birthday in 1998, she had been on the throne of the Netherlands for almost 20 years. By this time, she had acquired […]
It is difficult to adequately assess the political and spiritual importance of the life of Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948). He was assassinated in Delhi on January 30, 1948, but his legacy […]
Dheera Sujan meets two Indian conservationists who are worried about the plight of the Asian elephant. There are around 25,000 of them in India, but ivory poachers and a shrinking […]
In many parts of Africa, the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome or AIDS has become the main cause of death for people between the ages of 15 and 45, in other […]
The image that many people have of Holland is one of an extremely tolerant and, in fact, overly permissive society when it comes to sex, drugs, prostitution, religion or euthanasia. […]
In the 19th century, 100,000 tigers stalked the Asian forests. But big game hunting, illegal poaching and the destruction of their habitat has shrunk that number to less than 6,000, […]
This award-winning programme tells a trans-Atlantic tale of love, music and politics. It is the story of Leon Perlee and Mercedes Sosa, both of them linked to the wooden street […]