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 […]
Monthly Archives: December 2001
11 posts
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 […]