We are at the CC Amstel Theater in Amsterdam to see QETC's production of hit musical CABARET and talking (at 11.00 mins) to its director MARK WINSTANLEY. We also have an interview with world-wide, best-selling author NICCI FRENCH and we finish (at 16,00 mins)with a song from Canadian singer/songwriter and performance artist RONLEY TEPER.

We are back in Delft this week. We talk to Bram Stoeken, the organizer of the Jazz Festival. We also (at 5.20)talk to the owner of Artline a new contemporary art gallery in the town. There is also (at 10.35) a song from Rotterdam-based Portuguese singer songwriter Magda Mendes.

We have dedicated this week’s programme to one topic – the Delft Chamber Music Festival which this year celebrates its twenty fifth anniversary. The Festival has been under the artistic direction of violinist Liza Ferschtman since 2007 but now there is a new director, Nino Gvetadze, and we talk to her at the festival’s main venue, the Mandelazaal in Delft’s historic Prinsenhof.

COMEDY SPECIAL! It’s all about comedy this week. We have a guest in the studio, Stephen Grindle who is also known as Dingle Fingle and Baron von Grindle. He talks about life as an English clown living in Holland and after that (at 18.30 mins)Amsterdam based comedian Greg Shapiro reads the final excerpt from his book An American Netherlander 25 Years of Expat Tales.

The DELFT FRINGE FESTIVAL 2022 opens on 2nd June. We speak to the organizer Roel Funcken and (at 6.20 mins) to Robin Lie and Doortje Peters of the Tappin-It Collective about their show Doemsdee. We also (at 15.00 mins)talk to bass player, poet and performance artist Jonathan Nagel about his show Eventually and hear one of his tracks.

We talk to Ralph Remers and Emilia Moscovich of the new Amsterdam based English language theatre company Strike Me Pink and then (at 7.50 mins) to Brazilian dancer and choreographer SAMIR CALIXTO about his new company. Finally (at 17.40 mins)we are in Delft to talk to HELEEN VAN HAAFTEN about her new contemporary art gallery Artline.

We visit the VERMEER CENTRE in Delft and talk to LOUK VAN RIET. JONATHAN NAGEL (at 16.50 mins)is a double-bass player, poet and performance artist based in Amsterdam and we have a track from his new album entitled Eventually. Finally, GREG SHAPIRO (at 22 mins)reads more from his book THE AMERICAN NETHERLANDER – Twenty Five Years of Ex-Pat Tales.

We are at the Kunsthal in Rotterdam for the opening of the JOB, JORIS & MARIEKE animation exhibition and talk to JOB ROGGEVEEN. Brazilian dancer and choreographer SAMIR CALIXTO talks (at 6.30 mins)about his new work DIDO AENEAS US AND ALL which is currently on tour and (at 13.50 mins) SOUWIE BUIS talks to WENDY FOSSEN about the MUCHA exhibition at the Kunstmuseum in The Hague.

We talk to Anita Jansen, curator of the BRAM BOGART exhibition at the Museum Prinsenhof in Delft and (at 22 mins) there is a song from Canadian artist RONLEY TEPER

Souwie Buis talks to Wendy Fossen about the major PAULA REGO exhibition at Kunstmuseum in The Hague and GREG SHAPIRO reads from his book THE AMERICAN NETHERLANDER