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Dutch Horizons: Opus one

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The fiddler can be found in the foyer of the Stopera concert hall, on the edge of Amsterdam’s Waterlooplein. Placed in secrecy overnight in 1991, the statue is of a large head and hand holding a violin bursting through the tile floor of the building. (© Flickr/ frankfp47)

Bertine Krol’s very first edition of Dutch Horizons, a weekly programme on the Netherlands,  features three items:

  1. Bertine interviews in his workshop Dutch master violin builder Jaap Bolink. The report includes string music especially composed for an ensemble of brand-new instruments to show how good they sound. 
  2. Item on the maximum security prison in Vught, based on a book with profiles of inmates showing what life is like in institutions like this one.
  3. David Swatling talks to Simon Schama about his latest opus: “Rembrandt’s Eyes”. 

Producer: Bertine Krol

Broadcast: October 1, 1999