Part One: A Church Organist Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck was one of the most important composers of his time. Born in 1562, he became resident organist at Amsterdam’s Oude Kerk, or […]
Monthly Archives: March 2002
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After September 11, 2001, Muslims in the Netherlands became outsiders almost overnight. They are distrusted, feared and even hated. We find out how this could have happened from Yassin Hartok […]
In the 1980’s and the early 1990’s, the Netherlands had a leading position in this field in Europe. That’s gone now. Why? Liesbeth de Bakker talks to experts, politicians and […]
A group of international broadcasters exchanges documentaries with a common theme. This five-part series examines the way in which global forces are challenging business and industry, changing our lives. In […]
No matter how safe we feel, we’re always at the mercy of a predator. We could be at a beach we’ve known since childhood and suddenly 1000 kilos of shark […]
An intimate profile of Antoine de Bakker. His name in Dutch means “the baker”, and he earned his living making the machines necessary to produce Holy Communion hosts. These very […]
The corrido, or ballad, is one of Mexico’s oldest song styles. During the 19th and early 20th century, it was the Mexican equivalent of Spanish romances or cowboy songs of […]
Eric Beauchemin meets Kathy Barrera whose organisation, the Mothers’ Welfare Group, has been working for the past 13 years in a poor, remote village near the central Nigerian city of […]