Dutch media services
CBBC is a British free-to-air public broadcast children’s television channel owned and operated by the BBC. It is also the brand used for all BBC content for children aged 6 to 15. Its sister channel, CBeebies, is aimed at children aged 6 and under. It broadcasts every day from 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m., time sharing with BBC Three (originally BBC Choice until 2003). Sadly the CBBC internet site is only available in the UK.
The British production company Wall to Wall produces ‘Fining My Family: Holocaust’, a two-part series for BBC 1 which will follow the British families of those who experienced the Holocaust re-trace their parents and grandparents’ steps. Watford Grammar schoolgirl Maggie Fleet, 14, accompanied her “opa”,… Read More
‘Anne Frank is one of the most famous authors and diarists the world has ever seen.’ For the children’s news programme Newsround the BBC Children’s department is producing a documentary that ‘tells the story of a little girl who without knowing changed the world’. The… Read More
The children’s BBC program All Over The Place travels through Europe and also visits the Netherlands. Presenters Ed and Iain visit several iconic Dutch locations like the windmills on the Zaanse Schans, the cheese market in Alkmaar, the witches weigh house in Oudewater, the cat… Read More
The BBC children’s program Blue Peter produces an episode in The Netherlands. The Blue Peter presenters are confronted with loads of Dutch traditions, habits and clichés. The presenters join costumed clog dancers in the picturesque harbour of Volendam, do a bike and a boat tour… Read More