Welcome to our weekly guide to Radio Netherlands' English Service - a list of the new programmes coming up on Radio Netherlands this week, beginning on Saturday.
SATURDAY 4 NOVEMBER
*** Weekend Connection ***
Every Saturday, the Newsline team brings you Weekend Connection, with thought-provoking reports on the issues making headlines in the Netherlands, Europe and beyond.
It's a lively mix of local colour and "the big picture". One week you might hear how Dutch farmers are doing their part to combat bird flu, the next week it's about the worldwide attempt to punish crimes against humanity. Big or small, Weekend Connection covers it all!
Broadcast times on SW (UTC): 1000 (Asia/Far East/Pacific), 1200 (Eastern N America), 1400 & 1530 (South Asia), 1800, 1930 & 2030 (Africa), 0000 (Eastern N America), 0100 (Central N America), 0500 (Western N America)
*** Vox Humana ***
"Bogging In"
Northern Irish poet Seamus Heaney won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1995. Since then his lines have been quoted by presidents, his new translation of "Beowulf" has become a best-seller, and he praised rapper Eminem for encouraging interest in poetry among young people.
But in his latest book of poetry, Heaney returns to images of his work in the 1970's when the violence in Northern Ireland was his main preoccupation. Perro de Jong caught up with the poet at this year's Poetry International Festival in Rotterdam.
Broadcast times on SW (UTC): 1027 (Asia/Far East/Pacific), 1227 (Eastern N America), 1430 (South Asia), 1827 & 2000 (Africa), 0027 (Eastern N America), 0127 (Central N America), 0527 (Western N America)Repeated: Sun 1400 (South Asia), Sun 1900 (N America, Africa)
SUNDAY 5 NOVEMBER
*** Amsterdam Forum ***
The global arms trade is big business. Each year, the industry makes billions of dollars - and produces enough bullets to kill every human on the planet, twice. But though globalisation has made moving weapons around the world much easier, the laws which govern the arms trade have not moved with the times - weapons still end up in conflict zones or countries under arms embargos.
It's been described as an industry fraught with loopholes, complacency and greed. So can there ever be such a thing as a responsible arms trade?
Have your say on the topic atwww.radionetherlands.nl/features/amsterdamforum/.
Broadcast times on SW (UTC): 1004 (Asia/Far East/Pacific), 1204 (Eastern N America), 1504 (South Asia), 1804 & 2004 (Africa), 0000 (Eastern N America), 0100 (Central N America), 0500 (Western N America)
MONDAY 6 NOVEMBER
*** Newsline ***
The latest world news and current affairs.
Broadcast times on SW (UTC): 1000 (Asia/Far East/Pacific), 1200 (Eastern N America), 1400 & 1530 (South Asia), 1800, 1930 & 2030 (Africa), 0000 (Eastern N America), 0100 (Central N America), 0400 (Western N America)
*** The Research File ***
Everyone has heard about dinosaurs and how they became extinct, but what about mosasaurs, and what about non-catastrophic causes of extinction?
The Research File hears how a wobble in the Earth's orbit may be responsible for normal patterns of extinction among all kinds of creatures. And we come face to face with monstrous mosasaur fossils, for a new understanding of these large lizards.
There's also an insight into the ageing human brain, and a look at what the eyes say about a child's thought processes.
Broadcast times on SW (UTC): 1027 (Asia/Far East/Pacific), 1227 (Eastern N America), 1430 (South Asia), 1827 & 2000 (Africa), 0027 (Eastern N America), 0127 (Central N America), 0527 (Western N America)Repeated: Thurs 1500 (South Asia), Thurs 1900 (Africa)
TUESDAY 7 NOVEMBER
*** Newsline ***
The latest world news and current affairs.
Broadcast times on SW (UTC): 1000 (Asia/Far East/Pacific), 1200 (Eastern N America), 1400 & 1530 (South Asia), 1800, 1930 & 2030 (Africa), 0000 (Eastern N America), 0100 (Central N America), 0500 (Western N America)
*** EuroQuest ***
"The Far Out Far Right"
Turkish author Orhan Pamuk recently won the Nobel Prize for Literature, along with a new French bill making it illegal to suggest that Turkey did NOT commit the genocide of a million Armenians, this has caused a lurch to the right in Turkish politics.
Meet the bevy of colourful characters populating the new Dutch right as they compete for seats in next Dutch parliamentary elections.
The Belgian extreme right wing party Vlaams Belang or Flemish interest party regularly gets over 30% of the vote - what's behind their success?
Jean Marie Le Pen is readying himself for the next French elections - how big are his chances of success?
And hear some very different - and tuneful - views about what direction the United Nations should be taking.
Broadcast times on SW (UTC): 1027 (Asia/Far East/Pacific), 1227 (Eastern N America), 1430 (South Asia), 1827 & 2000 (Africa), 0027 (Eastern N America), 0127 (Central N America), 0527 (Western N America)Repeated: Mon 1500 (South Asia), Mon 1900 (Africa)
WEDNESDAY 8 NOVEMBER
*** Newsline ***
The latest world news and current affairs.
Broadcast times on SW (UTC): 1000 (Asia/Far East/Pacific), 1200 (Eastern N America), 1400 & 1530 (South Asia), 1800, 1930 & 2030 (Africa), 0000 (Eastern N America), 0100 (Central N America), 0500 (Western N America)
*** The Weekly Documentary ***
"Soldiering On"
This week's documentary commemorates the anniversary of the ending of the First World War.
In "Soldiering On", two men talk about their experience on the battlefield and the historian Stephen Brumwell discusses how soldiers have dealt with warfare down the ages. The fear, the anxiety and the will and determination to survive.
Broadcast times on SW (UTC): 1027 (Asia/Far East/Pacific), 1227 (Eastern N America), 1430 (South Asia), 1827 & 2000 (Africa), 0027 (Eastern N America), 0127 (Central N America), 0527 (Western N America)Repeated: Fri 1500 (Asia/Far East/Pacific), 1900 (Africa), Sun 14:30 (Asia/Far East/Pacific), Sun 1930 (Africa, N America)
THURSDAY 9 NOVEMBER
*** Newsline ***
The latest world news and current affairs.
Broadcast times on SW (UTC): 1000 (Asia/Far East/Pacific), 1200 (Eastern N America), 1400 & 1530 (South Asia), 1800, 1930 & 2030 (Africa), 0000 (Eastern N America), 0100 (Central N America), 0400 (Western N America)
*** Dutch Horizons ***
Dutch Horizons joins the Beaujolais Trophy, an annual rally from Holland to France. It's a race of classic cars, all over 25 years old from Renaults and Fiats, to Jaguars and Porsches. The drivers start in the northern Dutch city of Groningen and head for Beaune, France, to pick up some Beaujolais wine and drive back again... That's about two and a half thousand kilometers in three days!
This year's edition will start next week. Last year, Kathy Clugston hitched a ride and recorded the event for Dutch Horizons.
Broadcast times on SW (UTC): 1027 (Asia/Far East/Pacific), 1227 (Eastern N America), 1430 (South Asia), 1827 & 2000 (Africa), 0027 (Eastern N America), 0127 (Central N America), 0527 (Western N America)Repeated: Wed 1500 (South Asia), Wed 1900 (Africa)
FRIDAY 10 NOVEMBER
*** Newsline ***
The latest world news and current affairs.
Broadcast times on SW (UTC): 1000 (Asia/Far East/Pacific), 1200 (Eastern N America), 1400 & 1530 (South Asia), 1800, 1930 & 2030 (Africa), 0000 (Eastern N America), 0100 (Central N America), 0400 (Western N America)
*** A Good Life ***
Throughout the developing world, pregnancy is fraught with danger. There is little or no pre-natal care, hospitals and clinics are often far away, and mothers are often expected to pay to give birth.
In the Americas, Haiti is the country with the highest rates of maternal and infant mortality. It's also the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere. More than 500 out of every 100,000 pregnant women die; in Holland the figure is only 16. Infant mortality rates are also extremely high.
In the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince, one organisation is trying to help cut those alarmingly high figures: it's the Dutch branch of Médecins sans Frontières or Doctors without Borders. Eric Beauchemin recently travelled to Haiti and prepared an A Good Life special looking at obstetric care in the Caribbean nation.
Broadcast times on SW (UTC): 1027 (Asia/Far East/Pacific), 1227 (Eastern N America), 1430 (South Asia), 1827 & 2000 (Africa), 0027 (Eastern N America), 0127 (Central N America), 0527 (Western N America)Repeated: Tues 1500 (South Asia), Tues 1900 (Africa)
(R Netherlands)
