In Zimbabwe at the end of the 20th century, it was estimated that nearly one in five children had lost a parent to AIDS. Often it was just a question […]
Monthly Archives: November 1999
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In 1999, UNAIDS released a report on the socio-economic impact of the epidemic in Africa. The report confirms what researchers had suspected for several years: AIDS is exacerbating poverty […]
Crampons and spikes feature heavily in this heady documentary from James McDonald looking at the history of the challenge to climb the world’s highest mountain. Producer: James McDonald Broadcast: November […]
When the ancient Roman historian Tacitus witnessed how the inhabitants of what is now the Netherlands lived on mounds of muddy earth surrounded by water, he was flabbergasted that anyone […]
Michele Ernsting discovers that there are dozens of country and western shops which have opened up in the Netherlands in the past few years. The Netherlands is an urbanised and […]
The 1990’s saw another exodus of Dutch farmers to Canada. Fleeing Eurocrats and their environmental restrictions, as well as rising land prices, hundreds of Dutch farmers decided to try their […]
Martha Hawley visits Canada to meet Dutch settlers who went out there in the first half of the 20th century. Most of them were farmers. What do they remember of […]
Anne Marie Michel looks at 100 years of architecture in the Netherlands from Berlage as the father of the new architecture, the Amsterdam School (functional as well as fanciful), the […]