In the fourth and last programme in the Collective Memory series, Michele Ernsting goes to the Jordaan, the famous Amsterdam district, to find out more about the residents’ passion for […]
Yearly Archives: 2001
To mark the 100th birthday of one of the great sex goddesses of the 20th century, David Swatling presents an impression of the lady, as seen through the eyes […]
In the autumn of 2001, Radio Netherlands organised a Dutch music week in Japan. The crème de la crème of Dutch jazz musicians gave several concerts in Tokyo and Nagasaki. […]
Two people from two continents are brought together by a little girl’s suitcase found at Auschwitz after the war. The story of the search for Hana’s suitcase was produced by […]
As part of a series on the collective memory, Michele Ernsting presents the meaning of sila: the Inuit perspective on climate change. In what now seems like a distant past, […]
There’s a medical condition that can cause a huge range of problems – for example, brain damage, physical abnormalities of the face and heart, problems with behaviour, vision and the […]
Over a decade after it began, the conflict between the Anglo-Dutch oil multinational, Shell, and one of Nigeria’s smaller ethnic groups – the Ogoni people – has lost little of […]
As part of the series Collective Memory, Michele Ernsting presents “The House”. It is the unusual story of a Czech emigré who unexpectedly hears that the old family home in […]