Friday, February 12, 2010

Radio Netherlands Program Guide - Feb 13-19


Welcome to our weekly guide to Radio Netherlands Worldwide's English Service - a list of the new programs coming up on Radio Netherlands Worldwide this week, beginning on Saturday.

SATURDAY 13 FEBRUARY
*** The State We're In ***

Loves me, loves me not: Some people turn to Richard Martinez to find out how true their "true love" really is. He's a honey trap specialist. For a fee, he'll arrange to have your romantic partner tested by a potential paramour. Who fails more: men or women? Listen to Jonathan's interview with him and find out.

Loving letters: Samara O'Shea writes love letters for other people. And not just for Valentine's Day - anytime. She tells Jonathan how a single letter can change a love life forever.

Arranged dating hell: Karishma Shah is 27, well-educated and single. After years of dating the men she wanted to, she finally gave in and started going on dates arranged by her parents. Yet they've all been disasters. But, as she tells Jonathan, she still believes that Mr Right is out there.
India's yenta: Being disabled in India can mean a life of loneliness. But 81-year-old Prabha Panse in Mumbai has been helping disabled men and women meet each other for 20 years. Her record: over 500 marriages, all still intact - and she still giggles with excitement talking about her job.

Love in the fast lane: Ten years ago, producer Chris Chambers came to Amsterdam with conventional views of love and sex. Then he bought some black latex underwear with a red racing stripe and started going to sex parties. Now he's after candlelight and happily ever after. He explains the evolution.

Listener response: Brooke Cheshier Butler heard our interview with a woman who decided to get pregnant even though she was HIV+. Brooke tells Jonathan about her own decision to have children, knowing they'd likely be born with a debilitating condition.

Broadcast times on SW (UTC):
14.00 South and Southeast Asia 12080, 15595
15.00 South and Southeast Asia 12080, 15595
18.00 East Africa 12045, Central and East Africa 11655, South Africa 6020
20.00 West Africa 21525, 11655, South and Central Africa 7425

Broadcast times on WRN
00.30 Europe
05.00 North America
14.00 Europe
23.00 North America and CBC

*** Network Europe Week ***

A collaboration by Europe's leading broadcasters

A pan-European team links up across the continent every day to provide a fresh perspective on events and life in Europe. If you missed any editions of Network Europe satisfy your needs with this digest of the programme's top stories. Greek strikes, Timoshenko's challenge, the crisis with the euro, avalanche training in Italy and a footballer for sale - via public shares.

Broadcast times on SW (UTC):
19.30 East Africa 12045, West Africa 11655, South and Central Africa 7425

Broadcast times on WRN
04.00 Africa and Asia
13.00 North America
17.00 Europe
22.00 Asia

*** Network Europe Extra ***

Arts and Culture brought to you each Sunday from Europe's widest partnership of international broadcasters.

Broadcast times on SW (UTC):
1505 South Asia 11835 and 15815, Southeast Asia/India 7530, Tibet 5825

Broadcast times on WRN (UTC):
0300 North America
1200 North America
1500 Europe

SUNDAY 14 FEBRUARY
*** Network Europe Extra ***

Arts and Culture brought to you each Sunday from Europe's widest partnership of international broadcasters.

Broadcast times on SW (UTC):
1000 East Asia 12065, 6040, East China 9720
1800 East Africa 12045, Central and East Africa 11655, South Africa 6020
1900 East Africa 12045, West Africa 11655, South and Central Africa 7425

Broadcast times on WRN (UTC):
0400 North America
0500 North America
1000 Africa and Asia
1200 North America
1430 Europe
1700 Europe
2200 Asia

*** Radio Books (primary program) ***

'The Proposal' - by Paul Mennes

Flemish author Paul Mennes won the Debut Prize for his first novel in 1995. His work has been compared to the American writer Brett Easton Ellis. His contribution for Radio Books concerns a Belgian man who proposes marriage to his Japanese girlfriend. But she is about to return to Japan and so he faces an important decision.

Broadcast times on SW (UTC):
10.30 East Asia 12065, 6040, East China 9720
14.00 South and Southeast Asia 12080, 15595
18.30 East Africa 12045, Central and East Africa 11655, South Africa 6020
19.30 East Africa 12045, West Africa 11655, South and Central Africa 7425

Broadcast times on WRN
00.30 Europe
05.30 North America
10.30 Africa and Asia
14.40 Europe

MONDAY 15 FEBRUARY
*** Curious Orange (primary program) ***

Michel Walraven is your guide to modern-day Holland.

Broadcast times on SW (UTC):
10.00 East Asia 12065, 6040, East China 9720
14.30 South and Southeast Asia 12080, 15595
18.30 East Africa 12045, Central and East Africa 11655, South Africa 6020
20.30 West Africa 21525, 11655, South and Central Africa 7425

Broadcast times on WRN
00.30 Europe
13.00 North America
14.30 Europe
22.10 Asia
23.10 North America and CBC

*** Newsline ***

The latest world news and current affairs.

Broadcast times on SW (UTC):
14.04 South and Southeast Asia 12080, 15595
15.04 South and Southeast Asia 12080, 15595
18.04 East Africa 12045, Central and East Africa 11655, South Africa 6020
20.04 West Africa 21525, 11655, South and Central Africa 7425

Broadcast times on WRN
14.04 Europe
22.00 Asia
23.00 North America and CBC

** Network Europe ***

A collaboration by Europe's leading broadcasters

A pan-European team links up across the continent every day to provide a fresh perspective on events and life in Europe.

Broadcast times on SW (UTC):
19.04 East Africa 12045, West Africa 11655, South and Central Africa 7425

Broadcast times on WRN
05.00 North America
17.00 Europe

*** From Way Back When ***

A chance to hear some Radio Netherlands Worldwide programmes from the 1980s, from way back when... Neville Gray talks to best-selling author James A. Michener. This program was first broadcast in 1982.

Broadcast times on WRN
05.20 North America

*** Classic Dox ***

'Chernobyl: After the Accident' (Originally broadcast April 2001)

Fifteen years after the disaster with the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in April 1986, producer Liesbeth de Bakker visited the Ukraine to find out what had happened to the some five million people who were exposed to radiation.
Broadcast times on SW (UTC):
10.00 East Asia 12065, 6040, East China 9720

Broadcast times on WRN
13.20 North America

*** European Jazz Stage/ World Music ***

Dutch diversity this week, with the Martijn van Iterson, the Ilja Reijngoud Quartet, Eric Vloeimans and Ernst Reijseger. The middle set of the show is by the

Wolfert Brederode Quartet, and the finale is by the irresistible New Cool Collective.
All of that, on the European Jazz Stage with Daniel Frankl.

*** Live! at the Concertgebouw ***

Live! at the Concertgebouw 2009

The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and Netherlands Chamber Choir are conducted by Ton Koopman, in choral works by Mozart, and Haydn's final Symphony no. 104, 'London'.
The programme is hosted by Hans Haffmans and Cynthia Wilson.

TUESDAY 16 FEBRUARY
*** Network Europe ***

A collaboration by Europe's leading broadcasters

A pan-European team links up across the continent every day to provide a fresh perspective on events and life in Europe.

Broadcast times on SW (UTC):
19.04 East Africa 12045, West Africa 11655, South and Central Africa 7425

Broadcast times on WRN
05.00 North America
17.00 Europe

*** The State We're In - Midweek Edition ***

Loves me, loves me not: Some people turn to Richard Martinez to find out how true their "true love" really is. He's a honey trap specialist. For a fee, he'll arrange to have your romantic partner tested by a potential paramour. Who fails more: men or women? Listen to Jonathan's interview with him and find out.

Loving letters: Samara O'Shea writes love letters for other people. And not just for Valentine's Day - anytime. She tells Jonathan how a single letter can change a love life forever.

Arranged dating hell: Karishma Shah is 27, well-educated and single. After years of dating the men she wanted to, she finally gave in and started going on dates arranged by her parents. Yet they've all been disasters. But as she tells Jonathan, she still believes that Mr. Right is out there.
India's yenta: Being disabled in India can mean a life of loneliness. But 81-year-old Prabha Panse in Mumbai has been helping disabled men and women meet each other for twenty years. Her record: over 500 marriages, all still intact - and she still giggles with excitement talking about her job.

Broadcast times on SW (UTC):
10.30 East Asia 12065, 6040, East China 9720
14.15 South and Southeast Asia 12080, 15595
18.15 East Africa 12045, Central and East Africa 11655, South Africa 6020
20.15 West Africa 21525, 11655, South and Central Africa 7425

Broadcast times on WRN
04.00 Africa and Asia
10.30 Africa and Asia
14.15 Europe

*** Live! at the Concertgebouw ***

Live! at the Concertgebouw 2009

Jaap van Zweden is conducting the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic, in Mahler's Blumine and Das klagende Lied, and a Mendelssohn piano concerto. Your hosts are Hans Haffmans and Cynthia Wilson.

*** Commonwealth Story ***

A selection of winning stories chosen from the large number of entries for the 2009 Commonwealth Short Story Competition.

'Too Many Legs' - by Minoli Salgado from the UK. A journalist reports on a bomb blast in Sri Lanka.

Broadcast times on SW (UTC):
10.50 East Asia 12065, 6040, East China 9720

Broadcast times on WRN
00.50 Europe
04.25 Africa and Asia
10.50 Africa and Asia
22.50 Asia
23.50 North America and CBC

*** Classic Dox ***

'Imagination is the Instrument of Compassion' (Originally Broadcast September 2005)

How soon after a disaster may artists create a work of art out of the ashes? Some critics felt four years was too soon to take on the 11 September terrorist attacks as a subject. But author Jonathan Safran Foer overcame his own fears to do just that.

Broadcast times on SW (UTC):
14.30 South and Southeast Asia 12080, 15595

*** Newsline ***

The latest world news and current affairs.

Broadcast times on SW (UTC):
14.04 South and Southeast Asia 12080, 15595
15.04 South and Southeast Asia 12080, 15595
18.04 East Africa 12045, Central and East Africa 11655, South Africa 6020
20.04 West Africa 21525, 11655, South and Central Africa 7425

Broadcast times on WRN
14.04 Europe
22.00 Asia
23.00 North America and CBC

WEDNESDAY 17 FEBRUARY
*** Network Europe ***

A collaboration by Europe's leading broadcasters

A pan-European team links up across the continent every day to provide a fresh perspective on events and life in Europe.

Broadcast times on SW (UTC):
19.04 East Africa 12045, West Africa 11655, South and Central Africa 7425

Broadcast times on WRN
05.00 North America
17.00 Europe

*** Reloaded (primary program) ***

Another selection of this week's programme highlights presented by Mindy Ran.

Broadcast times on SW (UTC):
18.15 East Africa 12045, Central and East Africa 11655, South Africa 6020
20.15 West Africa 21525, 11655, South and Central Africa 7425

Broadcast times on WRN
14.15 Europe
22.10 Asia

*** Classic Dox ***

'Adrift in Sri Lanka' (Originally broadcastJan 2004)

Producer Marijke van der Meer was vacationing in Sri Lanka when the south coast of the country was hit by the devastating tsunami in December 2003. Her personal journey to the area hit hardest by the disaster is the basis for this award-winning documentary.

*** Newsline ***

Broadcast times on SW (UTC):
14.04 South and Southeast Asia 12080, 15595
15.04 South and Southeast Asia 12080, 15595
18.04 East Africa 12045, Central and East Africa 11655, South Africa 6020
20.04 West Africa 21525, 11655, South and Central Africa 7425

Broadcast times on WRN
14.04 Europe
22.00 Asia
23.00 North America and CBC

THURSDAY 18 FEBRUARY
*** Network Europe ***

A collaboration by Europe's leading broadcasters A pan-European team links up across the continent every day to provide a fresh perspective on events and life in Europe.

Broadcast times on SW (UTC):
19.04 East Africa 12045, West Africa 11655, South and Central Africa 7425

Broadcast times on WRN
05.00 North America
17.00 Europe

*** Earth Beat (primary program) ***

On next week's edition of Earth Beat we consider the perils of pedal power in the streets of Beijing and New Dehli. We report on the benefits of the bike as a garbage collector and a life saver. And we pedal through the skies in a Schweeb.

Broadcast times on SW (UTC):
10.00 East Asia 12065, 6040, East China 9720
14.30 South and Southeast Asia 12080, 15595
18.35 East Africa 12045, Central and East Africa 11655, South Africa 6020
20.15 West Africa 21525, 11655, South and Central Africa 7425

Broadcast times on WRN
04.00 Africa and Asia
05.10 North America
10.00 Africa and Asia
13.00 North America
14.00 Europe
17.30 Europe
22.10 Asia
23.10 North America and CBC

*** Classic Dox ***

'The Day the World Came to an End' (Originally broadcast October 2004)

On 12 October 1654, an explosion in the city of Delft caused more than 100 deaths. On the 350th anniversary of the disaster, producer Chris Chambers talked with Dutch historians and recreated the tragic event and its aftermath.

Broadcast times on SW (UTC):
15.15 South and Southeast Asia 12080, 15595

*** Newsline ***

The latest world news and current affairs.

Broadcast times on SW (UTC):
14.04 South and Southeast Asia 12080, 15595
15.04 South and Southeast Asia 12080, 15595
18.04 East Africa 12045, Central and East Africa 11655, South Africa 6020
20.04 West Africa 21525, 11655, South and Central Africa 7425

Broadcast times on WRN
14.04 Europe
22.00 Asia
23.00 North America and CBC

FRIDAY 19 FEBRUARY
*** Network Europe ***

A collaboration by Europe's leading broadcasters

A pan-European team links up across the continent every day to provide a fresh perspective on events and life in Europe.

Broadcast times on SW (UTC):
19.04 East Africa 12045, West Africa 11655, South and Central Africa 7425

Broadcast times on WRN
05.00 North America
17.00 Europe

*** Bridges with Africa (primary program) ***

We're giving the microphone to Diaspora groups in Europe and are linking up with stations in Africa. The show goes beyond the clichés of starving children and war-ridden countries and seeks to bring you genuine voices from a vibrant continent.

Broadcast times on SW (UTC):
10.00 East Asia 12065, 6040, East China 9720
14.30 South and Southeast Asia 12080, 15595
18.15 East Africa 12045, Central and East Africa 11655, South Africa 6020
20.15 West Africa 21525, 11655, South and Central Africa 7425

Broadcast times on WRN
05.10 North America
10.00 Africa and Asia
13.00 North America
17.30 Europe
22.10 Asia
23.10 North America and CBC

*** Classic Dox ***

'Zeeland '53' (Originally broadcast January 2003)

In February 1953, the worst flood in centuries surprised residents of the southern province of Zeeland in the middle of the night. Houses were swept out to sea and more than 1800 people lost their lives. The disaster is recreated with RNW archive recordings and eye-witness accounts of survivors.

*** Newsline ***
The latest world news and current affairs.

Broadcast times on SW (UTC):
14.04 South and Southeast Asia 12080, 15595
15.04 South and Southeast Asia 12080, 15595
18.04 East Africa 12045, Central and East Africa 11655, South Africa 6020
20.04 West Africa 21525, 11655, South and Central Africa 7425

Broadcast times on WRN
14.04 Europe
22.00 Asia
23.00 North America and CBC
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