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Felix Meritis is one of the Netherlands most remarkable and important historical buildings. Lying on one of the grandest canals in Amsterdam, it has been the centre of the Dutch Enlightenment, the headquarters of the Communist Party of the Netherlands and in the 1960’s and 70’s a world-famous theatre. Producer: Chris Chambers Broadcast: November […]
“Feelings without Frontiers” Nilgun Yerli is a Dutch writer and cabaret artist, born in Turkey in 1969 and who has been living in the Netherlands since the age of 10. She is the author of an award-winning novel “The Shrimp Peeler”, published in 2001. This Radio Books’ story is inspired by a two-year stay in […]
Kristina Goikoetxea Langarka: “Twelve hours is a long time” After spending 30 years at an African mission post, Daniel returns to his home town somewhere in southern Europe. He has his reasons for returning, but he has not informed his family of his imminent arrival. However, there is no question of a real homecoming because […]
David Swatling meets this petite woman with platinum blond hair and an other-worldly demeanour. She grew up as an Earthling, named Shirley, later wrote her autobiography “From Venus I came”, which includes the lost history of Earth. Her CD “Message from Venus” includes a guided meditation. She also has the story of Atlantis, preaches a […]
Theo Jansen is a sculptor, kinetic scientist and designer of a new species called “strandbeest“, beach animal. Born in the dunes near Delft, Jansen’s animals seem to be alive as they move across the windswept beach. He turns plastic tubes, the colour of bones, into an intelligent design and sets them in motion through a […]
© sueddeutsche/Koos Breukel and nationalgallery Gary Schwartz is a Brooklyn-born expert on Rembrandt and Dutch 17th century art. He studied art history in the United States, came to the Netherlands in 1965, fell in love with his wife and the country and never left. He even became a Dutch citizen. Gary Schwartz has written numerous […]
A profile of Amsterdam’s most multicultural district, De Baarsjes, where locals are active with many projects to bring the community’s diverse residents closer together. Producer: David Swatling, a long-time resident of De Baarsjes Broadcast: March 3, 2007
Hundreds of years after he lived, the painter Rembrandt continues to affect the lives of people in our own century. In every generation, there are people who study his work, trade in it and try to imitate or learn from his work. In this programme, the guests include an artist who decided to spend ten […]
Was he really a misunderstood genius? In the 400 years since he was born, the famous Dutch painter Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669) has been the subject of ever-changing myths and projections in films, novels and art theory. For some, like the poet Goethe and the painter Reynolds, he is the ideal of what an artist […]
Otto van Eck was just seventeen when he died of tuberculosis in 1798. His name and life had been totally forgotten until the recent discovery of his unique diary. It was started when he was ten years old under the guidance of his parents and gives a fascinating insight into the huge changes taking place […]
A montage documentary about one of the greatest of the Dutch Masters, Johannes Vermeer (1632-1675) of Delft, using six of his paintings to look at aspects of his life and fame. Our guests speak about the strangeness of his paintings, his clever use of the camera obscura, his early and dramatic death, and how his fame has […]
Though he was first and foremost a painter, Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) had a great love of literature, chronicled in great detail in the wealth of letters to his brother Theo. Some 800 references to works by more than 150 authors show a broad and eclectic literary interest. The Bible and Shakespeare, Charles Dickens and […]
Rivers cradle the world’s earliest civilizations. Mythology and religion were born on their banks. They provide us with life-giving water. We eat of their bounty. Create power from their energy. Radio Netherlands tells the stories of some of these “arteries of the world”. The river Vecht is just thirty kilometers long and yet it is […]
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 thin wafers are part of one of the most sacred rituals of Roman Catholicism: the sacrament of the Holy Eucharist. The program is produced and […]
1Vincent Van Gogh and Paul Gauguin were two of the greatest painters of their age. The nine stormy weeks they spent working together in Arles in the south of France at the end of 1888 marked one of the most important and intriguing examples of artistic collaboration in history. That story became widely known to […]
In 1999 the famous Mauritshuis Museum in The Hague hosted one of its most spectacular exhibitions: Rembrandt’s Self-Portraits. Few artists in history have painted themselves so often. Why? If what we see in these paintings is a mirror image, was he left or right-handed, and how did he work with mirrors to be able to […]
The people who many of us refer to as “gypsies”, but who call themselves Sinti and Roma, are a small ethnic minority in the Netherlands numbering between five and seven thousand at the time this program was made. In all of Europe they number between seven and ten million. Since their first arrival in […]
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