LILIAN is a play for radio by Polish composer and writer Kasia Glowicka who lives in The Hague. Based on real events it tells the story of a Dutch professor who is contacted by Tesfay, a refugee trapped in a camp in Libya.

Barbed Wire Sunset photo by and © Rick van Helden

We have chosen the best bits from the dozens of interviews and features from ArtsTalk Radio. We talk to Greg Shapiro, Kasia Glowicka, Santiago Burgi, Berry Visser and the QE2 Theatre Company. We are at the Kunsthal and Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum in Rotterdam, Museum Rijswijk and Opera2Day. Souwie Buis is at the Mauritshuis in The Hague and De Balie in Amsterdam. There’s lots of talk and lots of music to take your mind off the dreaded you-know-what.

Michael Hasted talks to The Hague-based Polish composer and writer KASIA GLOWICKA (@16.02 mins)about her work and about her radio play LILIAN. And we are at the Diligentia Theatre in The Hague talking to comedian GREG SHAPIRO about his new book THE AMERICAN NETHERLANDER.

Souwie Buis talk to WENDY FOSSEN about the ANDERS ZORN exhibition at the KUNSTMUSEUM in The Hague, Michael Hasted (@12.35)talks to LOVEDAY SMITH and MARK WINSTANLEY of QE2 Theatre Company about their production of TALKING HEADS and (@20.25) Souwie Buis talks to MICHEL BEHRE organizer of the CROSSING BORDER FESTIVAL in The Hague

In an exclusive interview Michael Hasted talks to Amsterdam-based American comedian GREG SHAPIRO about his new tour, LEAVING TRUMPLAND, and (@15.40)Souwie Buis is at the Kunstmuseum in The Hague talking to WENDY FOSSEN about the exhibition COLOUR IN FASHION. 15th October 2020

The weekend of 25th September 2020 was the Silver Opening of THE DEPOT, the new storage facility of the Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum in Rotterdam when the press and the public were allowed in for three days to see the work in progress. Michael Hasted has a look round and talks to the Boijmans director SJAREL EX. The Depot will be fully up and running and open to the public in September 2021. We are also at the MAURITSHUIS in The Hague where SOUWIE BUIS talks to art historian WENDY FOSSEN about a new exhibition on Johan Maurits himself

Michael Hasted is at Kunsthal in Rotterdam to see the photographic exhibitions MY BREXIT and FOR YOUR EYES ONLY. He talks to Anglo/Dutch photographer MERLIN DALEMAN and his Brexit pictures and to ASTRID BURCHARDT about the old amateur black and white snapshots of naked ladies.

Michael Hasted talks to DIANA WIND, curator of the PAPER BIENNALE at MuseumRijswijk and, (@ 10mins)following the news that CIRQUE DU SOLEIL has filed for bankruptcy we talk to some of the performers in an extract from last year's special programme dedicated to the circus when it was at The Hague

Michael Hasted talks to MAX DAX, curator of the exhibition BLACK ALBUM WHITE CUBE at the Kunsthal in Rotterdam and (@ 10.00 mins), on its 50th Anniversary, we talk to to BERRY VISSER, founder of MOJO Concerts about the HOLLAND POP FESTIVAL of 1970 in Kralingen

Michael Hasted paid a visit to the incredible HIDDEN HOUSE OF MADAME DE BERRY in Delft and was shown round by and talked at length to BERRY VISSER alias Madame de Berry about this very exotic secret gem. 17th June 2020