This programme was broadcast to mark the 50th anniversary of the partition of the subcontinent, when India and Pakistan gained independence from British colonial rule in 1947. Floris van Straaten […]
decolonization
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Marijke van der Meer examines the future of Hong Kong on the eve of its return into the Chinese fold on July 1, 1997. She meets the locals: a legislator, […]
A Good Life reporter Sylvia Smith visits the Western Sahara and refugee camps in neighbouring Algeria. Control over the Western Sahara, an expanse of desert half the size of France, […]
The programme is part of the Radio Netherlands’ Transcription Series “We made a hoe and went along”, produced in 1986. The African struggle for independence. Based on the experiences of […]