Michael Hasted talks to Brazilian dancer and choreographer SAMIR CALIXTO about his work at the Korzo Theatre in The Hague and there is a song from Canadian singer and performance artist RONLEY TEPER. With most Dutch museums re-opening for business we talk to one that won’t – the Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam, because of its on-going major refurbishment. We talk to the Boijmans director SJAREL EX about The Depot, an annex to the museum which will be opening next year.

Souwie Buis talks to MICHEL BEHRE about The Hague's CROSSING BORDER FESTIVAL and BORDER KITCHEN literary events. There is also chat and music when Michael Hasted talks to Delft based musicians, singer JACKIE SARLUIS and guitarist ERWIN BEIJERSBERGEN.

Michael Hasted talks to English actor KENNETH CRANHAM about HAROLD PINTER. There is a preview of the curtailed CLASSICAL ENCOUNTERS FESTIVAL in The Hague and SOUWIE BUIS talks about three new books on the HONG KONG protest movement

As if the CoronaVirus and the cancellation of several shows was not bad enough STET, The English Theatre in The Hague will probably have its funding from the city withdrawn. We speak to STET's director Elske Van Holk and to performers and participants with the aim of raising awareness of the company's plight and to urge people to sign a petition to ensure public funding is maintained and that STET can continue.

MARK WYNTER was a pop singer in the pre-Beatles early sixties with a string of top twenty hits to his name. He later became, and remains, a successful actor. In this wide ranging interview with MICHAEL HASTED for Arts Talk Radio he talks about his early career and how he made the transition to straight acting. It includes several of his hit singles.

Michael Hasted talks to English actress PENELOPE KEITH about her life in the theatre and Souwie Buis talks to art historian WENDY FOSSEN about the BAROQUE IN ROME exhibition at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. Plus a song from RONLEY TEPER

Michael Hasted meets gypsy jazz musician TCHA LIMBERGER and SANDRO BRUTI at CASA LOURDES Sessions in Scheveningen and Souwie Buis talks to WENDY FOSSEN about the GEORGE STUBBS exhibition at the Mauritshuis in The Hague. March 2020

A rather political programme this week dealing with different aspects of migration. Souwie Buis was at De Balie in Amsterdam where she spoke to Suketu Mehta, a New York based Indian author, about his book This Land is Our Land, An Immigrant’s Manifesto. She also talks to Ehsan Fardjadniya, an Iranian visual and performance artist who lives in the Netherlands, about his seminal work A Refugee on Trial. Picture by Romy Fernandez

Souwie Buis talks to Wendy Fossen about current art exhibitions in Amsterdam and The Hague focusing on the BREITNER vs ISREALS show at Kunstmuseum in The Hague. Plus there is a feature on the lovely little TOBACCO MUSEUM in Delft and a song from Portuguese singer/songwriters MAGDA MENDES.

An ArtsTalk Radio special dedicated to OPERA MELANCHOLICA, the new production by Opera2Day which is based on Philip Glass's THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER. Michael Hasted talks to Alice Gubler, the company's managing director, Emlyn Stam leader of the New European Ensemble, singers Santiago Burgi, Georgi Sztojanov and Drew Santini and to the opera's director Serge van Veggel