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Just a five minute walk from Eindhoven Central Railway Station, the Philips Museum emerges you in the history of the company that shaped the Brainport region. Right at the spot where Gerard Philips produced his first light bulbs in 1891, you see how Philips is constantly reinventing itself and playing an pivotal role in societal changes with innovative technology. First with electric light, later with radio, television and the arrival of the digital age. And right now, Philips is at the forefront of major upheavals in healthcare. Always with the aim of improving people's lives.

With Sergio Derks, Jean-Paul Linnartz visits the Philips Museum in Eindhoven for Radio 4 Brainport.

A silence on CD is really a silence. The CD offered unprecedented dynamics and changed the music industry. Digital music came in the 80s.   

Just a five minute walk from Eindhoven Central Railway Station, the Philips Museum emerges you in the history of the company that shaped the Brainport region. Right at the spot where Gerard Philips produced his first light bulbs in 1891, you see how Philips is constantly reinventing itself and playing an pivotal role in societal changes with innovative technology. First with electric light, later with radio, television and the arrival of the digital age. And right now, Philips is at the forefront of major upheavals in healthcare. Always with the aim of improving people's lives.

With Sergio Derks, Jean-Paul Linnartz visits the Philips Museum in Eindhoven for Radio 4 Brainport

Making light bulbs, making good vacuum, laid the foundation for a huge business in radio tubes and in radio sets. But the 30s were also the decade that Louis Kalff created a corporate identity by standardzing the well known starts and waves Philips Logo.  Design and technology go hand in hand.

Just a five minute walk from Eindhoven Central Railway Station, the Philips Museum emerges you in the history of the company that shaped the Brainport region. Right at the spot where Gerard Philips produced his first light bulbs in 1891, you see how Philips is constantly reinventing itself and playing an pivotal role in societal changes with innovative technology. First with electric light, later with radio, television and the arrival of the digital age. And right now, Philips is at the forefront of major upheavals in healthcare. Always with the aim of improving people's lives.

With Sergio Derks, Jean-Paul Linnartz visits the Philips Museum in Eindhoven for Radio 4 Brainport

What do 2021 and 1891 have in common: an older brother leads the technology while the younger brother turns it into business. And Breda, not Eindhoven, almost became THE city of light.  

Just a five minute walk from Eindhoven Central Railway Station, the Philips Museum emerges you in the history of the company that shaped the Brainport region. Right at the spot where Gerard Philips produced his first light bulbs in 1891, you see how Philips is constantly reinventing itself and playing an pivotal role in societal changes with innovative technology. First with electric light, later with radio, television and the arrival of the digital age. And right now, Philips is at the forefront of major upheavals in healthcare. Always with the aim of improving people's lives.

With Sergio Derks, Jean-Paul Linnartz visits the Philips Museum in Eindhoven for Radio 4 Brainport

The first factory, where the production of lamps was brought to perfection, laying the foundation for Xray and radio tubes later on.

Just a five minute walk from Eindhoven Central Railway Station, the Philips Museum emerges you in the history of the company that shaped the Brainport region. Right at the spot where Gerard Philips produced his first light bulbs in 1891, you see how Philips is constantly reinventing itself and playing an pivotal role in societal changes with innovative technology. First with electric light, later with radio, television and the arrival of the digital age. And right now, Philips is at the forefront of major upheavals in healthcare. Always with the aim of improving people's lives.

With Sergio Derks, Jean-Paul Linnartz visits the Philips Museum in Eindhoven for Radio 4 Brainport

What must it have meant in a society characterized by Vincent van Gogh so well in the “Potato Eaters” painting in 1885? In 1891, Philips brought electric light can changed the dynamics of the region for good.

Just a five minute walk from Eindhoven Central Railway Station, the Philips Museum emerges you in the history of the company that shaped the Brainport region. Right at the spot where Gerard Philips produced his first light bulbs in 1891, you see how Philips is constantly reinventing itself and playing an pivotal role in societal changes with innovative technology. First with electric light, later with radio, television and the arrival of the digital age. And right now, Philips is at the forefront of major upheavals in healthcare. Always with the aim of improving people's lives.

With Sergio Derks, Jean-Paul Linnartz visits the Philips Museum in Eindhoven for Radio 4 Brainport 

Philips started not only to make light bulbs, but also became a company of innovations and reforms. "Getting paid while sick" meant a change in entreprenerial attitude.

Just a five minute walk from Eindhoven Central Railway Station, the Philips Museum emerges you in the history of the company that shaped the Brainport region. Right at the spot where Gerard Philips produced his first light bulbs in 1891, you see how Philips is constantly reinventing itself and playing an pivotal role in societal changes with innovative technology. First with electric light, later with radio, television and the arrival of the digital age. And right now, Philips is at the forefront of major upheavals in healthcare. Always with the aim of improving people's lives.

" Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself" - George Bernard Shaw

Do you think it’s time to work on yourself and find a new person who might have been hidden under responsibilities and pretensions? This Friday, let’s understand from our guest, Divya Shah on how she worked on herself and embarked on a journey of self-discovery. Divya is a free-lance Journalist with more than 12 years of experience. She worked as a senior Correspondent with India’s leading English News Channel, CNN IBN. In her 5 years of stint with the channel, she was bestowed with two international awards. In the last 7 years of self-employment, she has been writing concepts, scripts and making corporate films for giants like Tata, Oil and Petroleum Ministry, Uttarakhand Government, and various NGOs like PSI, Earthworm, etc. Divya believes in giving back to society, so during the lockdown, she initiated an online community radio called the “Radio Diva”# to reach out to more and more people and help them with their mental health. Let’s listen to this voracious reader who will tell us how to stay happy, motivated, and live life full throttle Tune in, Tea-Talk, on June 11, Friday @ 20:00, Radio4brainport.org

Do you think it’s time to work on yourself and find a new person who might have been hidden under responsibilities and pretensions? This Friday, let’s understand from our guest, Divya Shah on how she worked on herself and embarked on a journey of self-discovery. Divya is a free-lance Journalist with more than 12 years of experience. She worked as a senior Correspondent with India’s leading English News Channel, CNN IBN. In her 5 years of stint with the channel, she was bestowed with two international awards. In the last 7 years of self-employment, she has been writing concepts, scripts and making corporate films for giants like Tata, Oil and Petroleum Ministry, Uttarakhand Government, and various NGOs like PSI, Earthworm, etc. Divya believes in giving back to society, so during the lockdown, she initiated an online community radio called the “Radio Diva”# to reach out to more and more people and help them with their mental health. Let’s listen to this voracious reader who will tell us how to stay happy, motivated, and live life full throttle Tune in, Tea-Talk, on June 11, Friday @ 20:00, Radio4brainport.org

Moving to a new country for a career can be adventurous and an exciting new chapter, but at the same time, as an accompanying spouse, it can be daunting, uncertain, and putting yourself second.

New job, new place, new country, a different culture, and the constant struggles, Kavitha Varathan has seen it all. Kavitha is the founder and CEO of Expat Spouses Initiative, which she set up as a grass-roots response to support accompanying spouses and partners of international knowledge workers rebuild their careers in the Netherlands. Kavitha has a lot to share with us, her journey, her experiences, the motivation to step out of her comfort zone, and set up this organization to help the expat spouses. Do you already feel curious and motivated?

Tea-Talk with Karishma & Supriya on Friday, June 4, @20.00 only on Radio4brainport.