While millions of Dutch chickens are killed to fight the Avian Influenza virus spreading like wildfire, the first cases of the disease are reported in Germany. For a reportage about the outbreak for the program Morgenmagazin from the German first public TV channel ARD reporter… Read More

The youth program Higher Geography from the Scottish BBC produce an extensive program about urban environment issues in Europe. For the program a crew form the Scottish BBC also travels to the Netherlands to report about urbanisation, air pollution and waste management. The Netherlands is… Read More

Coffeshops and calvinists. And now this – Dutch support for the war in Iraq. People? Nothing asked. Liberal model? What’s going on? Is that it? The live program Morgenmagazin from the German first public TV broadcaster ARD organises a live transmission from the Rotterdam harbour… Read More

While a new Dutch government is being formed, the United States decide to invade Iraq. The Dutch support the Americans and Brits politically, but not military. A crew from the German French TV broadcaster Arte travels to the Netherlands to find out why the Dutch… Read More

For the program Foreign Correspondent the Europe correspondent Michael Brissenden from the Australian public broadcaster ABC visits the Netherlands for an in depth reportage about the status of the Dutch multicultural society. A so called black school (with a majority of pupils with a migrant… Read More

After the sensational win of the new populist party Lijst Pim Fortuyn (LPF) from the gay politician Pim Fortuyn and after his brutal assassination on the 6th of May 2002, the Europe correspondent Michael Brissenden from the Australian public broadcaster ABC travels to the Netherlands… Read More

A White mother who gave birth to one white and one black child after a fertility clinic made a mistake has agreed to hand over the black baby to his biological parents. The saga of the Fasanos’ babies has highlighted the dangers of fertility treatment… Read More

During the recordings of the album Let It Be by the British pop band The Beatles, all sessions were filmed. Since the first name for the album initially was ‘Get back’, the tapes were called ‘The Get back tapes’. When the film Let it be… Read More

After the government with the populist party List Pim Fortuyn resigned, the Dutch are organising the second national elections within a year. After the rise and fall of the new politician Pim Fortuyn the Dutch are openly discussing the sensitive issues in their society. Preceding… Read More

After a Dutchman designed the Gatso meter, the famous speeding camera so often seen besides roads, now experiments take place in the Netherlands with a new speeding system called ‘route control’. A system where different camera’s record traffic over several kilometres meters highway and a… Read More

After the oil spill disaster at the Spanish coast caused by the oil tanker Prestige, senior reporter Alexander Steinbach from the documentary Weltjournal from the Austrian public broadcaster ORF, wants to find out what the safety situation of oil tankers is in general and what… Read More

Two years after the Dutch prostitution branch became totally legal, by lifting the so called Brothel Law, filming director Ralf Gierkes travels to the Netherlands to make reportages for the program Europamagazin from the German first public TV channel ARD and for the for the… Read More