Just south of Albany, New York, a beautiful example of early American Dutch architecture is being lovingly restored, using techniques dating back to when the farmhouse was originally built in […]
Monthly Archives: August 1999
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) was the greatest writer of his time and even Napoleon insisted on meeting him when the French conqueror happened to be passing through Germany with […]
Pilgrims have been walking along the “Camino de Santiago”, the road to Santiago, for over a thousand years. Louise Williams joins the path on the border between France and Spain […]
Dheera Sujan looks at 50 years of Indian independence and partition through the experiences of one family. For although the people of India had won the right to rule themselves, […]
In 1999, the Rotterdam Film Festival, together with a local gallery, presented a unique programme on Palestinian culture. Mindy Ran presents the personal and political voice of art and culture […]
Scopitone was a cultural phenomenon of the 1960’s in France and the United States. It combined a jukebox and a film projector, a kind of forerunner of the music video-clip. […]
Smallpox is regarded as one of the most consequential of all the pestilential diseases that have plagued humanity for the past ten thousand years. One in three could die from […]
The programme features interviews with two authors about Dutch women who settled in the U.S. in the 17th century. Dheera Sujan meets Professor Olwen Hufton, author of the book “The […]