Radio Netherlands PROGRAMME PREVIEW Saturday 5 - Friday 11 AUGUST 2006
Welcome to our weekly guide to Radio Netherlands' English Service - a list of the new programs coming up on Radio Netherlands this week, beginning on Saturday.
SATURDAY 5 AUGUST
*** 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): 10.00 (Australia/Asia/Far East), 12.00 (Eastern N America), 14.00 & 15.30(South Asia), 18.00, 19.30 & 20.30 (Africa), 00.00 (Eastern N America), 01.00 (Central N America), 05.00 (Western N America & New Zealand)
*** Vox Humana ***
"A True Brother"
Paul and Timothy Burke grew up in a very religious family in Jamaica. But when Paul was fourteen, he learned that his older brother Timothy was gay. For fifteen years the two brothers barely spoke to each other.
The family moved to Canada and Paul became an Evangelical pastor. Though he felt called by his faith to minister to those marginalized by society, he still felt only shame at having a gay brother. But one day something changed...
This touching, personal story is part of Radio Netherlands' summer theme of Family.
Broadcast times on SW (UTC): 10.27 (Australia/Asia/Far East), 11.27 (Eastern N America), 14.30 (South Asia), 18.27 & 20.00 (Africa), 00.27 (Eastern N America), 01.27 (Central N America), 04.27 (Western N America), 06.27 (New Zealand), 07.27 (Australia)
Repeated: Sun 1430 (South Asia), Sun 1900 (N America, Africa)
SUNDAY 6 AUGUST
*** World Wide Jazz Sessions ***
Amsterdam Forum and Dutch Extra are taking a summer break and will be back on Sunday 10 September.
While host Sarah Johnson prepares for a new season, join resident jazz expert Hans Mantel on Sundays for a celebration of some of the best in world wide jazz.
Broadcast times on SW (UTC): 10.45 (Australia/Asia/Far East), 11.45 (Eastern N America), 15.45(South Asia), 18.45 & 20.45 (Africa), 00.40 (Eastern N America), 01.40 (Central N America), 04.40 (Western N America), 06.40 (New Zealand), 0740 (Australia)
MONDAY 7 AUGUST
*** Newsline ***
The latest world news and current affairs.
Broadcast times on SW (UTC): 10.00 (SE Asia/Far East), 11.00 (Eastern N America), 14.00 & 15.30(South Asia), 18.00, 19.30 & 20.30 (Africa), 00.00 (Eastern N America), 01.00 (Central N America), 04.00 (Western N America), 06.00 (New Zealand), 07.00 (Australia)
*** The Research File ***
The Research File this week presents a special programme on new technologies in healthcare and medicine.
We'll hear how virtual reality (combined with a massive database) can greatly improve surgery of the face and we'll be present in the operating room during heart catheterisation
And Thijs tries out minimal invasion surgery - on a plastic button.
Broadcast times on SW (UTC): 10.27 (SE Asia/Far East), 11.27 (Eastern N America), 14.30 (South Asia), 18.27 & 20.00 (Africa), 00.27 (Eastern N America), 01.27 (Central N America), 04.27 (Western N America), 06.27 (New Zealand), 07.27 (Australia)
Repeated: Thurs 1500 (South Asia), Thurs 1900 (Africa)
TUESDAY 8 AUGUST
*** Newsline ***
The latest world news and current affairs.
Broadcast times on SW (UTC): 10.00 (SE Asia/Far East), 11.00 (Eastern N America), 14.00 & 15.30(South Asia), 18.00, 19.30 & 20.30 (Africa), 00.00 (Eastern N America), 01.00 (Central N America), 04.00 (Western N America), 06.00 (New Zealand), 07.00 (Australia)
*** EuroQuest ***
"Sound Advice"
How did we get from the songs of Gibbons to Beethoven's 5th Symphony? And for what evolutionary reason? The second international conference on music and the neurosciences, "From Perception to Performance", tries to find the answers.
Can the recorder by exotic and sexy? The Quartet New Generation, a recorder collective, is trying to break down stereotypes about contemporary classical music.
Jana Mange is a member of Sweden's indigenous Sami and also one of Sweden's few professional singers of Joik or traditional Sami songs. She talks about the Joik tradition and the haunting song of the Sami.
Rapid development in Bucharest has turned the Romanian capital into a noisy din. It's the kind of noise pollution that can even damage your health.
Broadcast times on SW (UTC): 10.27 (SE Asia/Far East), 11.27 (Eastern N America), 14.30 (South Asia), 18.27 & 20.00 (Africa), 00.27 (Eastern N America), 01.27 (Central N America), 04.27 (Western N America), 06.27 (New Zealand), 07.27 (Australia)
Repeated: Thurs 1500 (South Asia), Thurs 1900 (Africa)
Repeated: Mon 1500 (South Asia), Mon 1900 (Africa)
WEDNESDAY 9 AUGUST
*** Newsline ***
The latest world news and current affairs.
Broadcast times on SW (UTC): 10.00 (SE Asia/Far East), 11.00 (Eastern N America), 14.00 & 15.30(South Asia), 18.00, 19.30 & 20.30 (Africa), 00.00 (Eastern N America), 01.00 (Central N America), 04.00 (Western N America), 06.00 (New Zealand), 07.00 (Australia)
*** The Weekly Documentary ***
"AIDS In Thailand"
A quarter of a century after HIV/AIDS first emerged, the disease continues to wreak havoc in many parts of the world. Initially, one of the hardest hit countries was Thailand. In the mid and late 1980s, the virus spread rapidly among drug users and prostitutes.
In 1991, the country's prime minister announced that AIDS prevention and control would become a national priority. Thailand soon became one of the world's first success stories in the battle against the disease, reducing the number of transmissions from 140,000 in 1991 to 23,000 in 2003. Nonetheless, one in every 100 Thais is infected, and AIDS is still the country's leading cause of death.
In this week's documentary AIDS In Thailand, Eric Beauchemin looks at Thailand's response to the epidemic.
Broadcast times on SW (UTC): 10.27 (SE Asia/Far East), 11.27 (Eastern N America), 14.30 (South Asia), 18.27 & 20.00 (Africa), 00.27 (Eastern N America), 01.27 (Central N America), 04.27 (Western N America), 06.27 (New Zealand), 07.27 (Australia)
Repeated: Thurs 1500 (South Asia), Thurs 1900 (Africa)
Repeated: Mon 1500 (South Asia), Mon 1900 (Africa)
THURSDAY 10 AUGUST
*** Newsline ***
The latest world news and current affairs.
Broadcast times on SW (UTC): 10.00 (SE Asia/Far East), 11.00 (Eastern N America), 14.00 & 15.30(South Asia), 18.00, 19.30 & 20.30 (Africa), 00.00 (Eastern N America), 01.00 (Central N America), 04.00 (Western N America), 06.00 (New Zealand), 07.00 (Australia)
*** Dutch Horizons ***
This summer, Radio Netherlands is taking an in-depth look at the foundation of all societies: family. In a series of radio programmes and internet articles, we'll deal with different aspects of the ways family life around the globe is changing and evolving.
On Dutch Horizons you'll hear how Italian immigrants in the Netherlands try to hang on to their family traditions.
We find out why Dutch mothers work less than other mothers in the western world - in paid jobs that is.
And we look at the way family structures have evolved through the ages. Today, we use the term nuclear family to describe a household of parents and their children - in the Middle Ages, family relations were something quite different.
Broadcast times on SW (UTC): 10.27 (SE Asia/Far East), 11.27 (Eastern N America), 14.30 (South Asia), 18.27 & 20.00 (Africa), 00.27 (Eastern N America), 01.27 (Central N America), 04.27 (Western N America), 06.27 (New Zealand), 07.27 (Australia)
Repeated: Thurs 1500 (South Asia), Thurs 1900 (Africa)
Repeated: Mon 1500 (South Asia), Mon 1900 (Africa)
FRIDAY 11 AUGUST
*** Newsline ***
The latest world news and current affairs.
Broadcast times on SW (UTC): 10.00 (SE Asia/Far East), 11.00 (Eastern N America), 14.00 & 15.30(South Asia), 18.00, 19.30 & 20.30 (Africa), 00.00 (Eastern N America), 01.00 (Central N America), 04.00 (Western N America), 06.00 (New Zealand), 07.00 (Australia)
*** A Good Life ***
"The Public Green and the Poor"
Numerous times in American history, reformers have sought to help the poor by putting them amidst nature -- the belief being that physical beauty can make beautiful people.
It seems like an odd idea, but Thomas Jefferson believed it fervently. It's also the reason Central Park exists in New York and the town of Greenbelt exists in Maryland.
This program, from Soundprint producer Richard Paul, looks at a time in our past when nature was used to uplift the poor. It airs as part of our international broadcasting collaboration - Crossing Boundaries.
Broadcast times on SW (UTC): 10.27 (SE Asia/Far East), 11.27 (Eastern N America), 14.30 (South Asia), 18.27 & 20.00 (Africa), 00.27 (Eastern N America), 01.27 (Central N America), 04.27 (Western N America), 06.27 (New Zealand), 07.27 (Australia)
Repeated: Thurs 1500 (South Asia), Thurs 1900 (Africa)
Repeated: Mon 1500 (South Asia), Mon 1900 (Africa)
Repeated: Tues 1500 (S Asia), Tues 1900 (Africa)