Welcome to our weekly guide to Radio Netherlands' English Service - a list of the new programmes coming up on Radio Netherlands this week, beginning on Saturday.
SATURDAY 16 DECEMBER
*** Weekend Connection ***
Every Saturday, the Newsline team brings you Weekend Connection, with thought-provoking reports on the issues making headlines in the Netherlands, Europe and beyond.
It's a lively mix of local colour and "the big picture". One week you might hear how Dutch farmers are doing their part to combat bird flu, the next week it's about the worldwide attempt to punish crimes against humanity. Big or small, Weekend Connection covers it all!
Broadcast times on SW (UTC): 1000 (Asia/Far East/Pacific), 1200 (Eastern N America), 1400 & 1530 (South Asia), 1800, 1930 & 2030 (Africa), 0000 (Eastern N America), 0100 (Central N America), 0500 (Western N America)
*** Vox Humana ***
"A Dutchman Leads the Singing Cossacks"
Cossacks, with their traditional bearskin caps and sabres, were known as fearsome warriors who defended the borders of Russia for the Tsars. In the Netherlands, Cossack troops helped expel Napoleonic forces from Dutch towns in the early 19th century.
There are thousands of written and unwritten Cossack songs and after the Russian Revolution, the Cossacks were suppressed and their centuries-old music silenced. But exiled musicians abroad kept the traditional songs alive until the collapse of the Soviet Union, when Cossack culture was rehabilitated.
Dutchman Marcel Verhoeff has been at the forefront of Russia's Cossack revival since the early nineties. He's now chief conductor of the Choir of the Don Cossacks Russia.
Broadcast times on SW (UTC): 1027 (Asia/Far East/Pacific), 1227 (Eastern N America), 1430 (South Asia), 1827 & 2000 (Africa), 0027 (Eastern N America), 0127 (Central N America), 0527 (Western N America)
Repeated: Sun 1400 (South Asia), Sun 1900 (N America, Africa)
*** Weekend Connection ***
Every Saturday, the Newsline team brings you Weekend Connection, with thought-provoking reports on the issues making headlines in the Netherlands, Europe and beyond.
It's a lively mix of local colour and "the big picture". One week you might hear how Dutch farmers are doing their part to combat bird flu, the next week it's about the worldwide attempt to punish crimes against humanity. Big or small, Weekend Connection covers it all!
Broadcast times on SW (UTC): 1000 (Asia/Far East/Pacific), 1200 (Eastern N America), 1400 & 1530 (South Asia), 1800, 1930 & 2030 (Africa), 0000 (Eastern N America), 0100 (Central N America), 0500 (Western N America)
*** Vox Humana ***
"A Dutchman Leads the Singing Cossacks"
Cossacks, with their traditional bearskin caps and sabres, were known as fearsome warriors who defended the borders of Russia for the Tsars. In the Netherlands, Cossack troops helped expel Napoleonic forces from Dutch towns in the early 19th century.
There are thousands of written and unwritten Cossack songs and after the Russian Revolution, the Cossacks were suppressed and their centuries-old music silenced. But exiled musicians abroad kept the traditional songs alive until the collapse of the Soviet Union, when Cossack culture was rehabilitated.
Dutchman Marcel Verhoeff has been at the forefront of Russia's Cossack revival since the early nineties. He's now chief conductor of the Choir of the Don Cossacks Russia.
Broadcast times on SW (UTC): 1027 (Asia/Far East/Pacific), 1227 (Eastern N America), 1430 (South Asia), 1827 & 2000 (Africa), 0027 (Eastern N America), 0127 (Central N America), 0527 (Western N America)
Repeated: Sun 1400 (South Asia), Sun 1900 (N America, Africa)
SUNDAY 17 DECEMBER
*** Amsterdam Forum ***
Life saving drugs are still not available for millions of people in the developing world. Some activists argue that's because many pharmaceutical companies are more interested in profits than treating the poor.
Are they right? Are drug companies more interested in making money than saving lives? And who is responsible for getting the drugs to the people that need them - the pharmaceuticals, or governments?
Have your say on the topic at
www.radionetherlands.nl/features/amsterdamforum/.
Broadcast times on SW (UTC): 1004 (Asia/Far East/Pacific), 1204 (Eastern N America), 1504 (South Asia), 1804 & 2004 (Africa), 0000 (Eastern N America), 0100 (Central N America), 0500 (Western N America)
*** Amsterdam Forum ***
Life saving drugs are still not available for millions of people in the developing world. Some activists argue that's because many pharmaceutical companies are more interested in profits than treating the poor.
Are they right? Are drug companies more interested in making money than saving lives? And who is responsible for getting the drugs to the people that need them - the pharmaceuticals, or governments?
Have your say on the topic at
www.radionetherlands.nl/features/amsterdamforum/.
Broadcast times on SW (UTC): 1004 (Asia/Far East/Pacific), 1204 (Eastern N America), 1504 (South Asia), 1804 & 2004 (Africa), 0000 (Eastern N America), 0100 (Central N America), 0500 (Western N America)
MONDAY 18 DECEMBER
*** Newsline ***
The latest world news and current affairs.
Broadcast times on SW (UTC): 1000 (Asia/Far East/Pacific), 1200 (Eastern N America), 1400 & 1530 (South Asia), 1800, 1930 & 2030 (Africa), 0000 (Eastern N America), 0100 (Central N America), 0400 (Western N America)
*** The Research File ***
The Research File this week presents a palaeontology special. Was T-Rex really the very agile hunter we believe him to be? What can bones tell us about dino-behaviour? And what did our ancestors think when they found huge fossilised skeletons?
Broadcast times on SW (UTC): 1027 (Asia/Far East/Pacific), 1227 (Eastern N America), 1430 (South Asia), 1827 & 2000 (Africa), 0027 (Eastern N America), 0127 (Central N America), 0527 (Western N America)
Repeated: Thurs 1500 (South Asia), Thurs 1900 (Africa)
*** Newsline ***
The latest world news and current affairs.
Broadcast times on SW (UTC): 1000 (Asia/Far East/Pacific), 1200 (Eastern N America), 1400 & 1530 (South Asia), 1800, 1930 & 2030 (Africa), 0000 (Eastern N America), 0100 (Central N America), 0400 (Western N America)
*** The Research File ***
The Research File this week presents a palaeontology special. Was T-Rex really the very agile hunter we believe him to be? What can bones tell us about dino-behaviour? And what did our ancestors think when they found huge fossilised skeletons?
Broadcast times on SW (UTC): 1027 (Asia/Far East/Pacific), 1227 (Eastern N America), 1430 (South Asia), 1827 & 2000 (Africa), 0027 (Eastern N America), 0127 (Central N America), 0527 (Western N America)
Repeated: Thurs 1500 (South Asia), Thurs 1900 (Africa)
TUESDAY 19 DECEMBER
*** Newsline ***
The latest world news and current affairs.
Broadcast times on SW (UTC): 1000 (Asia/Far East/Pacific), 1200 (Eastern N America), 1400 & 1530 (South Asia), 1800, 1930 & 2030 (Africa), 0000 (Eastern N America), 0100 (Central N America), 0500 (Western N America)
*** EuroQuest ***
Christmas Pleasures
Jonathan Groubert and Brussels correspondent Vanessa Mock discuss the northerly high quality wines of Belgium and the attempts by the European Union to make the wine industry more competetive.
Dany Mitzman interviews Tonino, King of the island of Tavolara, just off the Sardinian Coast.
Lars Bevanger looks at the success of the total ban on public smoking in Ireland back in 2004.
As you lick the envelope to send your gift wish list off to Santa, remember, he doesn't live at the North Pole, he lives in Finland; or was it Sweden? No wait...it's Norway! Or was it? Radio Sweden looks into where Santa can be located on his downtime.
Broadcast times on SW (UTC): 1027 (Asia/Far East/Pacific), 1227 (Eastern N America), 1430 (South Asia), 1827 & 2000 (Africa), 0027 (Eastern N America), 0127 (Central N America), 0527 (Western N America)
Repeated: Mon 1500 (South Asia), Mon 1900 (Africa)
*** Newsline ***
The latest world news and current affairs.
Broadcast times on SW (UTC): 1000 (Asia/Far East/Pacific), 1200 (Eastern N America), 1400 & 1530 (South Asia), 1800, 1930 & 2030 (Africa), 0000 (Eastern N America), 0100 (Central N America), 0500 (Western N America)
*** EuroQuest ***
Christmas Pleasures
Jonathan Groubert and Brussels correspondent Vanessa Mock discuss the northerly high quality wines of Belgium and the attempts by the European Union to make the wine industry more competetive.
Dany Mitzman interviews Tonino, King of the island of Tavolara, just off the Sardinian Coast.
Lars Bevanger looks at the success of the total ban on public smoking in Ireland back in 2004.
As you lick the envelope to send your gift wish list off to Santa, remember, he doesn't live at the North Pole, he lives in Finland; or was it Sweden? No wait...it's Norway! Or was it? Radio Sweden looks into where Santa can be located on his downtime.
Broadcast times on SW (UTC): 1027 (Asia/Far East/Pacific), 1227 (Eastern N America), 1430 (South Asia), 1827 & 2000 (Africa), 0027 (Eastern N America), 0127 (Central N America), 0527 (Western N America)
Repeated: Mon 1500 (South Asia), Mon 1900 (Africa)
WEDNESDAY 20 DECEMBER
*** Newsline ***
The latest world news and current affairs.
Broadcast times on SW (UTC): 1000 (Asia/Far East/Pacific), 1200 (Eastern N America), 1400 & 1530 (South Asia), 1800, 1930 & 2030 (Africa), 0000 (Eastern N America), 0100 (Central N America), 0500 (Western N America)
*** The Weekly Documentary ***
"Any Mummers Allowed?"
Long ago, the Winter Solstice was celebrated with seasonal rituals like mumming. Men and women swapped clothes, dressed in animal skins, wore masks and visited neighbours for merry-making. Costumes sometimes provided an opportunity to disguise malicious mischief. The drinking, rowdiness and often unwelcome visits of mummers did much to give Christmas a bad name.
Although mummers still appear annually in parts of Newfoundland, England and Ireland, this great-grand-daddy of the Halloween masquerade died out in most of North America long ago. The best way to get the low-down on mummers is to tag along with them. Canadian producer Chris Brookes did just that -- on both sides of the Atlantic. Join him for a festive celebration in the documentary "Any Mummers Allowed"?
Broadcast times on SW (UTC): 1027 (Asia/Far East/Pacific), 1227 (Eastern N America), 1430 (South Asia), 1827 & 2000 (Africa), 0027 (Eastern N America), 0127 (Central N America), 0527 (Western N America)
Repeated: Fri 1500 (Asia/Far East/Pacific), 1900 (Africa), Sun 14:30 (Asia/Far East/Pacific), Sun 1930 (Africa, N America)
*** Newsline ***
The latest world news and current affairs.
Broadcast times on SW (UTC): 1000 (Asia/Far East/Pacific), 1200 (Eastern N America), 1400 & 1530 (South Asia), 1800, 1930 & 2030 (Africa), 0000 (Eastern N America), 0100 (Central N America), 0500 (Western N America)
*** The Weekly Documentary ***
"Any Mummers Allowed?"
Long ago, the Winter Solstice was celebrated with seasonal rituals like mumming. Men and women swapped clothes, dressed in animal skins, wore masks and visited neighbours for merry-making. Costumes sometimes provided an opportunity to disguise malicious mischief. The drinking, rowdiness and often unwelcome visits of mummers did much to give Christmas a bad name.
Although mummers still appear annually in parts of Newfoundland, England and Ireland, this great-grand-daddy of the Halloween masquerade died out in most of North America long ago. The best way to get the low-down on mummers is to tag along with them. Canadian producer Chris Brookes did just that -- on both sides of the Atlantic. Join him for a festive celebration in the documentary "Any Mummers Allowed"?
Broadcast times on SW (UTC): 1027 (Asia/Far East/Pacific), 1227 (Eastern N America), 1430 (South Asia), 1827 & 2000 (Africa), 0027 (Eastern N America), 0127 (Central N America), 0527 (Western N America)
Repeated: Fri 1500 (Asia/Far East/Pacific), 1900 (Africa), Sun 14:30 (Asia/Far East/Pacific), Sun 1930 (Africa, N America)
THURSDAY 21 DECEMBER
*** Newsline ***
The latest world news and current affairs.
Broadcast times on SW (UTC): 1000 (Asia/Far East/Pacific), 1200 (Eastern N America), 1400 & 1530 (South Asia), 1800, 1930 & 2030 (Africa), 0000 (Eastern N America), 0100 (Central N America), 0400 (Western N America)
*** Dutch Horizons ***
The girl in Rembrandt's famous painting "The Jewish Bride" wasn't Jewish! Neither were many of the other Jewish characters in his portraits. Dutch Horizons visits an exhibition which unravels the Jewish myth of Rembrandt.
We also take you to a food bank in Amsterdam. The Netherlands may be a wealthy country but there are hundreds of thousands of people who can't afford to buy food and who are dependent on the good work of food banks which are popping up all over the country.
And you'll hear conductor Bernard Haitink remembering his years with the Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra. Fifty years ago he conducted his first concert with the renowned orchestra.
Broadcast times on SW (UTC): 1027 (Asia/Far East/Pacific), 1227 (Eastern N America), 1430 (South Asia), 1827 & 2000 (Africa), 0027 (Eastern N America), 0127 (Central N America), 0527 (Western N America)
Repeated: Wed 1500 (South Asia), Wed 1900 (Africa)
*** Newsline ***
The latest world news and current affairs.
Broadcast times on SW (UTC): 1000 (Asia/Far East/Pacific), 1200 (Eastern N America), 1400 & 1530 (South Asia), 1800, 1930 & 2030 (Africa), 0000 (Eastern N America), 0100 (Central N America), 0400 (Western N America)
*** Dutch Horizons ***
The girl in Rembrandt's famous painting "The Jewish Bride" wasn't Jewish! Neither were many of the other Jewish characters in his portraits. Dutch Horizons visits an exhibition which unravels the Jewish myth of Rembrandt.
We also take you to a food bank in Amsterdam. The Netherlands may be a wealthy country but there are hundreds of thousands of people who can't afford to buy food and who are dependent on the good work of food banks which are popping up all over the country.
And you'll hear conductor Bernard Haitink remembering his years with the Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra. Fifty years ago he conducted his first concert with the renowned orchestra.
Broadcast times on SW (UTC): 1027 (Asia/Far East/Pacific), 1227 (Eastern N America), 1430 (South Asia), 1827 & 2000 (Africa), 0027 (Eastern N America), 0127 (Central N America), 0527 (Western N America)
Repeated: Wed 1500 (South Asia), Wed 1900 (Africa)
FRIDAY 22 DECEMBER
*** Newsline ***
The latest world news and current affairs.
Broadcast times on SW (UTC): 1000 (Asia/Far East/Pacific), 1200 (Eastern N America), 1400 & 1530 (South Asia), 1800, 1930 & 2030 (Africa), 0000 (Eastern N America), 0100 (Central N America), 0400 (Western N America)
*** A Good Life ***
Sorry, no details available.
Broadcast times on SW (UTC): 1027 (Asia/Far East/Pacific), 1227 (Eastern N America), 1430 (South Asia), 1827 & 2000 (Africa), 0027 (Eastern N America), 0127 (Central N America), 0527 (Western N America)
Repeated: Tues 1500 (South Asia), Tues 1900 (Africa)
(Source: R Netherlands)
*** Newsline ***
The latest world news and current affairs.
Broadcast times on SW (UTC): 1000 (Asia/Far East/Pacific), 1200 (Eastern N America), 1400 & 1530 (South Asia), 1800, 1930 & 2030 (Africa), 0000 (Eastern N America), 0100 (Central N America), 0400 (Western N America)
*** A Good Life ***
Sorry, no details available.
Broadcast times on SW (UTC): 1027 (Asia/Far East/Pacific), 1227 (Eastern N America), 1430 (South Asia), 1827 & 2000 (Africa), 0027 (Eastern N America), 0127 (Central N America), 0527 (Western N America)
Repeated: Tues 1500 (South Asia), Tues 1900 (Africa)
(Source: R Netherlands)
