That lesson, about the Netherlands’ nude beaches, is followed by another: homosexuals have the same rights here as heterosexuals do, including the chance to marry.  Just to make sure everyone gets the message, two men are shown kissing in a meadow. The scenes are brief… Read More

As bird flu virus spreads across the earth and even people die from it, The Netherlands is still free from the virus. In 2003 the Dutch already experienced a severe outbreak and they have Europe’s bird flu specialist Professor Ab Osterhaus. The program Mona Lisa… Read More

On 11 March 2006, Serbian ex-president Slobodan Milošević was found dead in his prison cell in the UN war crimes tribunal’s detention centre, located in the Scheveningen section of The Hague, Netherlands. After the death of Milošević the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia… Read More

As bird flu virus spreads across the earth and even people die from it, The Netherlands is still free from the virus. In 2003 the Dutch already experienced a severe outbreak and although bird flu is nearby the Dutch still do not have any bird… Read More

For a program that unveils tapes with footage that was filmed in Uist in the Western Isles in the late seventies and early eighties of the last century and that have been unwatched for 20 years, a crew from the Scottish production company MacTV travels… Read More

The mayor of Maastricht is promoting change in the Dutch soft drugs policy. Also many other local authorities want to experiment with regulated cannabis cultivation and a majority in the Dutch Lower house is in favour, but the Dutch minister of Justice is against the… Read More

After a possible early work of Vincent van Gogh pops up in France, the Dutch Van Gogh museum does not want to give the painting an authenticity certificate. It turns out that there are many more people with possible early work from ‘Vincent’ that are… Read More

For a documentary on Islam The Canadian production company 90th Parallel organises filming In many different part of the world. The documentary is loosely based on a book by Ugandan-born Canadian author Irshad Manji, called ‘The Trouble with Islam’ and is sponsored by the National… Read More

While the bird flu virus even takes human lives in Asia, the background reportage program Eòrpa from the Scottish BBC report about the way the Dutch successfully managed to fight the virus in 2003. Dutch poultry farmers are terrified that Bird flu will pop up… Read More

While there are bird flu virus outbreaks everywhere in the world, and even takes lives in Asia, a crew from the news program from the French first TV broadcaster TF1 travel to the Netherlands to check out how the Dutch successfully managed to fight the… Read More

After the flood disaster in New Orleans the background reportage program Eòrpa from the Scottish BBC produces a reportage about the actual status of the Dutch Delta Works, the system of dams that is constructed after the disastrous floods in 1953, and that should protect… Read More

After the flood disaster in New Orleans BBC TV and radio reporter and cameraman Mike Donkin investigates the Dutch protection against flooding and the future dangers the low lying delta might face from the sea and its rivers. He visits the Flood 1953 Museum in… Read More