Since the Dutch have a special and innovative way to handle their fishing quota, a crew from the Scottish BBC program Eòrpa travels to the Netherlands to investigate how the system works and how it differs from the UK and from the rest of Europe…. Read More
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Client: BBC Alba
BBC Alba is a Scottish Gaelic-language free-to-air public broadcast television channel jointly owned by the BBC and MG Alba. The channel was launched on 19 September 2008 and is on-air for up to seven hours a day. The name Alba is the Scottish Gaelic name for Scotland. The station is unique in that it is the first channel to be delivered under a BBC license by a partnership and was also the first multi-genre channel to come entirely from Scotland with almost all of its programs made in Scotland.
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
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
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
More and more city councils in The Netherlands decide to accommodate maladjusted people and asocial families in container on the side of town. These vandalism proof mobile housing units and prefab-apartments usually have two rooms, a kitchen and a bathroom. Forced transfer to these provisional… Read More
It is legal for people suffering from dementia to get euthanasia under very strict conditions. The Dutch board of Attorney Generals decided to stop prosecuting a doctor who helped a patient with Alzheimer disease with suicide. The board stated that Alzheimer itself is not an… Read More
Liveable Rotterdam, the new populist party in Rotterdam, lately came up with a plan to forbid migrants to settle in some of the poorer districts in the city. Since it is not allowed to judge on skin colour, origin or religion, some are against the… Read More
For the program Eòrpa from the Scottisch BBC produce a background reportage about financial problems at football lcubs in the smaller football leagues in Europe. Vitesse is a Dutch club near the German border in the city Arnhem. They play their matches in an ultramodern… Read More
2003 is the year of the farm in The Netherlands. The Dutch country side is changing rapidly and since 1940 100.000 from the 192.000 Dutch farms has been demolished. The 2003 Year of the Farm Foundation farm especially wants to promote and stimulate innovation in… 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
The Dutch Religious Peace Deliberation organisation IKV organises a series of activities before the Dutch report of the Srebrenica massacre is presented by the Royal Dutch Institute for War Documentation. Apart from the publication of the pamphlet ‘Srebrenica, the Genocide that was not prevented’, the… Read More
With increases in technology and tools that allow people to work remotely, teleworking has become common in different industries. Telework is a way for companies to save money on infrastructure costs while allowing their employees to work from a place convenient for them. The Netherlands… Read More