Friday, April 16, 2010

Radio Netherlands Program Preview April 17-23


Welcome to our weekly guide to Radio Netherlands Worldwide's English Service - a list of the new programmes coming up on Radio Netherlands Worldwide this week, beginning on Saturday.
SATURDAY 17 APRIL
*** The State We're In ***

A judge's quest for justice: Olga Kudeshkina was a judge for eighteen years in Moscow. In 2003, she got fired for telling standing up to corrupt colleagues. She took her case to the European court, and won, but she's still trying to get her job back.

Dreams of a better life: Meseret Ebebe left her home in rural Ethiopia to become a domestic worker in Lebanon. Her dream was to open her own business some day. But her Lebanese employer enslaved her, refused to pay her and beat her. Yet she remains hopeful that working abroad will help make her dream come true.

Migrant workers in Lebanon: Human rights worker Nadim Houry in Lebanon explains why migrant women workers have it so hard in his country.

Chinese women and suicide: Chinese women commit suicide at an astonishing rate, especially in the countryside. Contributor Karen Meirik talked to women who've lost loved ones and tries to explain why this is happening.

Dilemma: Love or family? Ratri Adityarani in Indonesia is in love with her boyfriend, Theo. They want to get married. But Ratri is Javanese and Muslim, while Theo is Chinese and Catholic. And neither family wants this marriage to happen.

Broadcast times on SW (UTC):
10.00 East and Southeast Asia 11895, South Asia 15110, China 12065
14.00 South Asia 11835, 15745
18.00 East and central Africa 15535, Southern Africa 6020
20.00 East and central Africa 11970, West Africa 11610, Southern and central Africa 7425

Broadcast times on WRN
10.00 Africa and Asia
12.00 North America
17.00 Europe
22.00 Asia and North America

*** Network Europe Week ***

A collaboration by Europe's leading broadcasters - A pan-European team links up across the continent every day to provide a fresh perspective on events and life in Europe. If you missed any editions of Network Europe satisfy your needs with this digest of the programme's top stories.

This week:
* Poland mourns its President who died along with several other officials in a plane crash in Russia.
* A new political row has blown up between French and Flemish speakers in Belgium.
* and why French property owners need to beware: leaving your house empty will cost you.

Broadcast times on SW (UTC):
19.30 East and central Africa 11970 and 15535, West Africa 11610, Southern and central Africa 7425

Broadcast times on WRN
17.00 Europe
22.00 Asia and North America

SUNDAY 18 APRIL
*** Radio Books ***

'Pulling a Crocodile by the Tongue' - by Saskia de Coster

Young Flemish author Saskia de Coster believes in the power of words. In her enigmatically titled contribution for Radio Books, a young woman has moved into a new house where she receives a strange telephone call. But are the words she hears meant to calm her or deepen her despair?

Broadcast times on SW (UTC):
18.30 East and central Africa 15535, Southern Africa 6020
19.30 East and central Africa 11970 and 15535, West Africa 11610, Southern and central Africa 7425

Broadcast times on WRN
04.30 Africa, Asia and North America
10.30 Africa and Asia
12.30 North America
14.40 Europe

*** Network Europe Extra ***

Arts and Culture brought to you each Sunday from Europe's widest partnership of international broadcasters.

* Parenting changes everything - A new Czech film explores how four different couples cope with the responsibility.
* What's wrong with this picture? The grunge-looking UK musicians playing serious jazz in Germany.
* and mystical songs for the soul - The Islamic Sufi music that's enlightening audiences in Spain.

Broadcast times on SW (UTC):
1530 South Asia 11835, 15745

MONDAY 19 APRIL
*** Classic Dox ***

'A War Requiem' (Orig. Broadcast November 2005)

Huge numbers of men experienced extreme psychological problems after the so-called Great War. Producer Chris Chambers looks at what those symptoms were, why they happened and what the military tried to do about it. The programme also contrasts this with the role of the modern day soldier and how psychiatric practices have changed.

Broadcast times on SW (UTC):
10.30 East and Southeast Asia 11895, South Asia 15110, China 12065
19.30 East and central Africa 11970 and 15535, West Africa 11610, Southern and central Africa 7425

Broadcast times on WRN
10.30 Africa and Asia
12.00 North America

*** Newsline ***

The latest world news and current affairs.

Broadcast times on SW (UTC):
14.00 South Asia 11835, 15745
15.00 South Asia 11835, 15745
18.00 East and central Africa 15535, Southern Africa 6020
20.00 East and central Africa 11970, West Africa 11610, Southern and central Africa 7425

Broadcast times on WRN
22.00 Asia and North America

*** Network Europe ***

A collaboration by Europe's leading broadcasters

A pan-European team links up across the continent every day to provide a fresh perspective on events and life in Europe.

Broadcast times on SW (UTC):
19.00 East and central Africa 11970 and 15535, West Africa 11610, Southern and central Africa 7425

Broadcast times on WRN
17.00 Europe

*** Live! at the Concertgebouw ***

The Netherlands Radio Chamber Philharmonic, with Roman Kofman wielding the baton. On the menu are works by Dvorák, Schumann, Bartók and Kodaly. The programme is hosted by Hans Haffmans.

*** European Jazz Stage/World Music ***

Jazz pianists at the Concertgebouw, featuring Fred Hersch and Rob van Kreveld. They are accompanied by Michael Moor on wind instruments, Edwin Corzilius,

bass, Frits Landesbergen, drums, and Jeroen de Rijk, percussion.
All of that, on the European Jazz Stage with guest host and renowned bass player, Hans Mantel.

*** The State We're In - Midweek Edition ***

A judge's quest for justice: Olga Kudeshkina was a judge for eighteen years in Moscow. In 2003, she got fired for telling standing up to corrupt colleagues. She took her case to the European court, and won, but she's still trying to get her job back.

Dreams of a better life: Meseret Ebebe left her home in rural Ethiopia to become a domestic worker in Lebanon. Her dream was to open her own business some day. But her Lebanese employer enslaved her, refused to pay her and beat her. Yet she remains hopeful that working abroad will help make her dream come true.

Migrant workers in Lebanon: Human rights worker Nadim Houry in Lebanon explains why migrant women workers have it so hard in his country.

TUESDAY 20 APRIL
*** Network Europe ***

A collaboration by Europe's leading broadcasters - A pan-European team links up across the continent every day to provide a fresh perspective on events and life in Europe.

Broadcast times on SW (UTC):
10.00 East and Southeast Asia 11895, South Asia 15110, China 12065
19.00 East and central Africa 11970 and 15535, West Africa 11610, Southern and central Africa 7425

Broadcast times on WRN
12.00 North America
17.00 Europe

*** Commonwealth Story ***

A selection of winning stories chosen from the large number of entries for the 2009 Commonwealth Short Story Competition.

'Table talk' - by Jennifer Moore from the UK. Witty and poignant conversations about life and death.

Broadcast times on SW (UTC):
10.00 East and Southeast Asia 11895, South Asia 15110, China 12065

Broadcast times on WRN
10.00 Africa and Asia
22.00 Asia and North America

*** Live! at the Concertgebouw ***

Live at the Concertgebouw, RNW's classical concert series, presents performances by the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Rotterdam Philharmonic and the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, among others, in repertoire that reflects the diversity of the Dutch orchestral landscape.

*** Classic Dox ***

'A Train to Sachsenhausen' (Orig. Broadcast June 2000)

Sachsenhausen was a concentration camp not far from Berlin. It's where most of the homosexuals arrested by the Nazis under the law called Paragraph 175 were sent before and during the Second World War. Most of them did not survive the experience. Producer David Swatling visited the memorial site. The programme won the Siegenthaler Audio Award from the National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association.

Broadcast times on WRN
12.00 North America

*** Newsline ***

The latest world news and current affairs.

Broadcast times on SW (UTC):
14.00 South Asia 11835, 15745
15.00 South Asia 11835, 15745
18.00 East and central Africa 15535, Southern Africa 6020
20.00 East and central Africa 11970, West Africa 11610, Southern and central Africa 7425

Broadcast times on WRN
22.00 Asia and North America

WEDNESDAY 21 APRIL
*** Network Europe ***

A collaboration by Europe's leading broadcasters - A pan-European team links up across the continent every day to provide a fresh perspective on events and life in Europe.

Broadcast times on SW (UTC):
10.00 East and Southeast Asia 11895, South Asia 15110, China 12065
19.00 East and central Africa 11970 and 15535, West Africa 11610, Southern and central Africa 7425

Broadcast times on WRN
12.00 North America
17.00 Europe

*** Newsline ***

The latest world news and current affairs.

Broadcast times on SW (UTC):
14.00 South Asia 11835, 15745
15.00 South Asia 11835, 15745
18.00 East and central Africa 15535, Southern Africa 6020
20.00 East and central Africa 11970, West Africa 11610, Southern and central Africa 7425

Broadcast times on WRN
22.00 Asia and North America

*** Classic Dox ***

'Westerbork's List' (Orig. Broadcast May 2005)

In 1945 the Dutch transit camp of Westerbork was liberated from the Nazis at the end of World War Two. More than 100,000 Jews had passed through the camp. But only 5,000 survived. Three survivors tell their moving stories to producer Chris Chambers.

Broadcast times on WRN
12.00 North America

THURSDAY 22 APRIL
*** Network Europe ***

A collaboration by Europe's leading broadcasters - A pan-European team links up across the continent every day to provide a fresh perspective on events and life in Europe.

Broadcast times on SW (UTC):
10.00 East and Southeast Asia 11895, South Asia 15110, China 12065
19.00 East and central Africa 11970 and 15535, West Africa 11610, Southern and central Africa 7425

Broadcast times on WRN
12.00 North America
17.00 Europe

*** The State We're In - South Asia edition ***

Personal stories about how we treat each other around the world. Hear the stories from the beating hearts behind the facts you read on the news.

*** Earth Beat - South Asia edition ***

A short version of RNW's environmental programme Earthbeat produced for broadcast in partnership with All India Radio.

*** South Asia Wired ***

Programme in which South Asians get to talk to each other hosted by Dheera Sujan

Gert Jan Rohmensen talks to Malalai Joya about the attempts to re-intergrate the Taliban into mainstream Afghan politics; and host Dheera Sujan talks to Sajeeda Amin from the Population Council in New York about the hidden successes and failures of microcredit schemes in rural Bangladesh.

Listen to South Asia Wired for the full story behind the news.

*** Classic Dox ***

'Children of the Hated' (Orig. Broadcast June 2003)

During the Second World War, an estimated 10,000 children were born in Norway out of liaisons between occupying German soldiers and local women. The Nazis set up special Lebensborn homes where single mothers and their babies could stay. Producer Dheera Sujan discovers that after the war life became hell for most of these Norwegian women and their children.

Broadcast times on WRN
12.00 North America

*** Newsline ***

The latest world news and current affairs.

Broadcast times on SW (UTC):
14.00 South Asia 11835, 15745
15.00 South Asia 11835, 15745
18.00 East and central Africa 15535, Southern Africa 6020
20.00 East and central Africa 11970, West Africa 11610, Southern and central Africa 7425

Broadcast times on WRN
22.00 Asia and North America

FRIDAY 23 APRIL
*** Network Europe ***

A collaboration by Europe's leading broadcasters - A pan-European team links up across the continent every day to provide a fresh perspective on events and life in Europe.

Broadcast times on SW (UTC):
10.00 East and Southeast Asia 11895, South Asia 15110, China 12065
19.00 East and central Africa 11970 and 15535, West Africa 11610, Southern and central Africa 7425

Broadcast times on WRN
12.00 North America
17.00 Europe

*** Bridges with Africa ***

We're giving the microphone to Diaspora groups in Europe and are linking up with stations in Africa. The show goes beyond the clichés of starving children

and war-ridden countries and seeks to bring you genuine voices from a vibrant continent.

Broadcast times on SW (UTC):
14.00 South Asia 11835, 15745
18.00 East and central Africa 15535, Southern Africa 6020
20.00 East and central Africa 11970, West Africa 11610, Southern and central Africa 7425

Broadcast times on WRN (UTC):
04.30 Africa, Asia and North America
17.00 Europe
22.00 Asia and North America

*** Earth Beat ***

Should we use technology to fix the world's climate? It might mean tinkering with the oceans and the atmosphere.

Listen to a range of opinions to discuss the pros and pitfalls of hacking the planet.

Broadcast times on SW (UTC):
10.30 East and Southeast Asia 11895, South Asia 15110, China 12065

*** Classic Dox ***

'Footnotes from the Fields' (Orig. Broadcast November 2004)

Students from the Netherlands and the United States visit cemeteries and battlefields of the Western Front in Flanders and northern France. The students are the same age as many of those who fought and died there. They give their reactions to what they see and learn about the First World War. Producer Marijke van der Meer won a Gold Medal at the New York Festivals for this programme.

Broadcast times on WRN
12.00 North America

*** Newsline ***
The latest world news and current affairs.

Broadcast times on SW (UTC):
14.04 South and Southeast Asia 12080, 15595
15.04 South and Southeast Asia 12080, 15595
18.04 East Africa 12045, Central and East Africa 11655, South Africa 6020
20.04 West Africa 21525, 11655, South and Central Africa 7425

Broadcast times on WRN
14.04 Europe
22.00 Asia
23.00 North America and CBC
(R Netherlands)