We were at the CELEBRATING DISSENT Freedom Festival at De Balie in Amsterdam and have interviews with British body-painting artist VICTORIA GUGENHEIM and (at 17mins 50) exiled Bangladeshi activist TASLIMA NASRIN.

1st September 2019

Michael Hasted talks with ELSKE VAN HOLK of STET The English Theatre based in The Hague.

This week Souwie BUIS talks to Syrian dancer AHMAD JOUDEH who is establishing a growing reputation around Europe and in The Netherlands where he now lives. And Michael HASTED talks (at 13.00 mins) to BRAM STOEKEN, organiser of the DELFT JAZZ FESTIVAL.

Photo by Ewoud Broeksma

Michael Hasted talks to Dutch baritone THOMAS OLIEMANS, organiser and star of this year's DELFT CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL and (at 21.40) he talks to MAURICE NIO of Nio Architects and gallery owner FRANK TAAL in Rotterdam.

Michael Hasted talks to world-wide best selling author NICCI FRENCH who was in Holland to promote the new book HUIS VOL LEUGENS published by Ambo Anthos. The English edition, THE LYING ROOM, will be published in the UK in October. The programme also includes an interview with Miel van Teijlingen of the Dutch National Theatre on language issues facing theatre-goers in the Netherlands.

Michael Hasted talks to BRAM STOEKEN and drummer ROB KRAMER at MIDSUMMER JAZZ in Delft and (at 8.20) Souwie Buis talks to SIMON MURPHY, conductor of the NEW DUTCH ACADEMY. There is also a track from the EZNORQUELS KLEZMER BAND

Michael Hasted talks to Michel Havenith of the EBONY ENSEMBLE after their concert in Zoetermeer of Facade by Edith Sitwell and William Walton and talks to two of the organisers on the bi-annual KUNSTKAMER in Delft

Interviews and reviews from the 2019 DELFT FRINGE FESTIVAL

Michael Hasted meets Sjarel Ex, Director of the Boijmans van Beuningen Museum in Rotterdam which is closing for major renovation at the end of May 2019. They talk about the work involved and about the new Depot building next door which opens next year and will house the museum's entire collection.

Interview with Pete Bernhard of THE DEVIL MAKES THREE at the Tivoli in Utrecht plus an interview and feature on the Tabakshistorisch Museum (Tobacco Museum) in Delft