Pep Rosenfeld, American comedian and founder of the Amsterdam comedy mecca Boom Chicago, talks to Michael Hasted about the venue and about his book Work, Laugh, Balance.

We talk to Chief Executive Roel Beeftink-Funcken and Artistic Director Tamara Griffioen of the DELFT FRINGE FESTIVAL and we visit the DELFT TOBACCO MUSEUM plus there's a tune from the jazz trio STEEL SHEEP

We talk to GREG SHAPIRO about his Saving the Climate one-man show and to TONY ADIGUN director of the English Avant Garde Dance Company who is one of the judges for the Rotterdam International Duet Choreography Competition – the RIDCC. And we have a tune from the ERWIN BEIJERSBERGEN TRIO

MICHAEL RAEDECKER is a Dutch artist who has lived and worked in London for the past 25 year. A major retrospective of his work has just opened at the Kunstmuseum in The Hague and we have an exclusive interview with him. We also visit the VERMEER CENTRE in Delft and have a guided tour from Louk van Riet. To play us out there is a track from the excellent AMSTERDAM KLEZMER BAND

We are live at Art Rotterdam at the iconic Van Nellefabriek. We talk to artists and galleries including A Modest Show gallery from Manchester and to Ali Keles of Lakeside Collection about art made entirely from bees. We meet artists Eric Mangen who was showing at Valerius Gallery from Luxembourg and to Daan Den Houter who shows at the Frank Taal Gallery in Rotterdam. We finish with a song from Rotterdam-based Portuguese singer-songwriter Magda Mendes.

We talk to Nicole Beutler of NICOLE BEUTLER PROJECTS about her new show, ATMEN, and to WENDY FOSSEN about THE HAGUE SCHOOL CHILDREN exhibition at the PANORAMA MESDAG MUSEUM in The Hague. Plus a tune from the AMSTERDAM CELLO OCTET

We talk to Job Chajes of the excellent AMSTERDAM KLEZMER BAND and we play a track from one of their albums. QETC’s new production at the end of November is a double bill at the CC Amstel Theater in Amsterdam, (at 5mins30) we talk to director Mark Winstanley. Finally, (at 12.00)we meet Ali Keles whose LAKESIDE COLLECTION of fine art can be seen in THE DEPOT in Rotterdam. The music from The Klezmer band is at 21mins40. Photo of the Amsterdam Klezmer band by SUSANA MARTINS

An American theme for this programme. We talk to Erwin Beijersbergen of the ERWIN BEIJERSBERGEN TRIO about their tribute to the great American jazz pianist with their new album A TOUCH OF BILL EVANS. And we are in The Hague to meet CHRISTOPHER MULLEN whose newly open ACME STUDIOS specializes in old typewriters and anything to do with them.

We meet CHLOE ROOKE a young English lady who will soon be conducting a concert with the prestigious Residentie Orkest at the Amare in The Hague and we talk(at 7mins20) to video artist JIYAN DÜYÜ about her installation at the Lakeside Collection in The Depot in Rotterdam. We are at the Korzo Theater in The Hague (at 10mins25)to talk to MICHAEL ZANDL about his installation Pices of a Mind which is on during Cirque Mania. Finally (at 15mins40) we play a track from the MERAL POLAT TRIO.

We are in Delft, at the Museum Prinsenhof, where an exhibition has just opened pairing the work of local artist Jan Schoonhoven and German photographer Lothar Wolleh. We speak to the show’s curator, Antoon Melissen. English actress Claire Worland, lives in Rotterdam and she has just produced her first play, Samuel Beckett’s Happy Days at the Branoul Theatre in The Hague. Plus we have She’s Leaving Home from the Amsterdam Cello Octet’s Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Cello Band album.