MONDAY 10 MAY
*** Classic Dox ***
'Children of the Hated' (Orig. Broadcast June 2003)
During the Second World War, an estimated 10,000 children were born in Norway out of liaisons between occupying German soldiers and local women. The Nazis set up special Lebensborn homes where single mothers and their babies could stay. Producer Dheera Sujan discovers that after the war life became hell for most of these Norwegian women and their children.
Broadcast times on SW (UTC):
10.30 East and Southeast Asia 11895, South Asia 15110, China 12065
19.30 East and central Africa 11970 and 15535, West Africa 11610, Southern and central Africa 7425
Broadcast times on WRN
10.30 Africa and Asia
12.00 North America
*** Newsline ***
The latest world news and current affairs.
Broadcast times on SW (UTC):
14.00 South Asia 11835, 15745
15.00 South Asia 11835, 15745
18.00 East and central Africa 15535, Southern Africa 6020
20.00 East and central Africa 11970, West Africa 11610, Southern and central Africa 7425
Broadcast times on WRN
22.00 Asia and North America
*** 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):
19.00 East and central Africa 11970 and 15535, West Africa 11610, Southern and central Africa 7425
Broadcast times on WRN
17.00 Europe
*** European Jazz Stage/World Music ***
It's the Japanese Jazz Stage this week, featuring recordings made on a Japanese tour by Dutch band leader Benjamin Herman and his combo, augmented with SeijiTada on alto sax and Yoshiaki Okayasu on guitar. All of that, on European Jazz Stage with guest host Hans Mantel.
*** Live! at the Concertgebouw ***
The Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra under conductor Jaap van Zweden presents an all-Ludwig van Beethoven programme, with Symphonies No. 1, No. 4 and the mighty No. 5. The concert is hosted by Hans Haffmans.
*** The State We're In - Midweek Edition ***
Babah's day in court: Charles Taylor is on trial at the International Criminal Court in The Hague, charged with committing war crimes in Sierra Leone. Babah Tarawally is from Sierra Leone, and now lives in the Netherlands. He saw the horrors of war firsthand, and remains traumatised by the experience. He's avoided going to the trial out of fear of seeing Taylor in person. Until now. Babah goes to The Hague with host Jonathan Groubert to make what he calls his confrontation with history. (This piece won a Gabriel Award for Radio 2010)
Sex and the lady: Wendy Salisbury is the author of Toyboy Diaries. She loves sex. And she's not embarrassed to say so. She's also 63 years old. "We're no longer little old ladies with grey hair queuing for our pensions in the local post office," she says. Wendy tells Jonathan why she's blazing a trail for her generation.
No sex please, we're Kenyan: There's been a political deadlock in Kenya since last year. To break it, some women organised a sex strike - to hit the men where it counts. Patricia Nyaundi was one of the organisers of the strike. She explains why she thinks it was a great idea.
TUESDAY 11 MAY
*** 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):
10.00 East and Southeast Asia 11895, South Asia 15110, China 12065
19.00 East and central Africa 11970 and 15535, West Africa 11610, Southern and central Africa 7425
Broadcast times on WRN
12.00 North America
17.00 Europe
*** Commonwealth Story ***
A selection of winning stories chosen from the large number of entries for the 2009 Commonwealth Short Story Competition.
'Shades' - by Alake Pilgrim from Trinidad and Tobago. Secrets of a local football hero.
Broadcast times on SW (UTC):
10.00 East and Southeast Asia 11895, South Asia 15110, China 12065
Broadcast times on WRN
10.00 Africa and Asia
22.00 Asia and North America
*** Live! at the Concertgebouw ***
The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra is conducted by Daniel Harding, in the folk-inspired Lachian Dances by Janácek and the First Symphony by Gustav Mahler.
Your host is Hans Haffmans.
*** Classic Dox ***
'Footnotes from the Fields' (Orig. Broadcast November 2004)
Students from the Netherlands and the United States visit cemeteries and battlefields of the Western Front in Flanders and northern France. The students are the same age as many of those who fought and died there. They give their reactions to what they see and learn about the First World War. Producer Marijke van der Meer won a Gold Medal at the New York Festivals for this programme.
Broadcast times on WRN
12.00 North America
*** Newsline ***
The latest world news and current affairs.
Broadcast times on SW (UTC):
14.00 South Asia 11835, 15745
15.00 South Asia 11835, 15745
18.00 East and central Africa 15535, Southern Africa 6020
20.00 East and central Africa 11970, West Africa 11610, Southern and central Africa 7425
Broadcast times on WRN
22.00 Asia and North America
WEDNESDAY 12 MAY
*** 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):
10.00 East and Southeast Asia 11895, South Asia 15110, China 12065
19.00 East and central Africa 11970 and 15535, West Africa 11610, Southern and central Africa 7425
Broadcast times on WRN
12.00 North America
17.00 Europe
*** Newsline ***
The latest world news and current affairs.
Broadcast times on SW (UTC):
14.00 South Asia 11835, 15745
15.00 South Asia 11835, 15745
18.00 East and central Africa 15535, Southern Africa 6020
20.00 East and central Africa 11970, West Africa 11610, Southern and central Africa 7425
Broadcast times on WRN
22.00 Asia and North America
*** Reloaded ***
Weekly highlights presented by Mindy Ran
*** Classic Dox ***
'A War Requiem' (Orig. Broadcast November 2005)
Huge numbers of men experienced extreme psychological problems after the so-called Great War. Producer Chris Chambers looks at what those symptoms were, why they happened and what the military tried to do about it. The programme also contrasts this with the role of the modern day soldier and how psychiatric practices have changed.
Broadcast times on WRN
12.00 North America
THURSDAY 13 MAY
*** 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):
10.00 East and Southeast Asia 11895, South Asia 15110, China 12065
19.00 East and central Africa 11970 and 15535, West Africa 11610, Southern and central Africa 7425
Broadcast times on WRN
12.00 North America
17.00 Europe
*** The State We're In - South Asia edition ***
We all need to eat - but we also need to eat healthy. And with mass-produced, factory-made foods becoming a way of life even in rural India, it's a growing concern for all of us. Join Chhavi on The State We're In - India edition for a look at the people's response to mass- produced food in China, Ivory Coast and Australia.
*** Earth Beat - South Asia edition ***
This week we're looking at several interlinked pieces of a large puzzle - getting back to basics. Join your host Chhavi as we hear from kids in a Canadian school as well as former prisoners in Nigeria's slums who have started farming their own vegetables to sell; we hear from a man in rural India who promotes decent toilets as the best way for women's emancipation and, finally, we look at the honeybee, a great measure of the health of a garden.
*** South Asia Wired ***
Keerthana Nagarajan talks to Hemlal and Kamla Rizal who were driven out of their homes in Bhutan because they were ethnic Nepali. Today they're part of the tiny Bhutanese refugee community in the Netherlands, struggling to start a new life.
*** Classic Dox ***
'A Train to Sachsenhausen' (Orig. Broadcast June 2000)
Sachsenhausen was a concentration camp not far from Berlin. It's where most of the homosexuals arrested by the Nazis under the law called Paragraph 175 were sent before and during the Second World War. Most of them did not survive the experience. Producer David Swatling visited the memorial site. The programme won the Siegenthaler Audio Award from the National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association.
Broadcast times on WRN
12.00 North America
*** Newsline ***
The latest world news and current affairs.
Broadcast times on SW (UTC):
14.00 South Asia 11835, 15745
15.00 South Asia 11835, 15745
18.00 East and central Africa 15535, Southern Africa 6020
20.00 East and central Africa 11970, West Africa 11610, Southern and central Africa 7425
Broadcast times on WRN
22.00 Asia and North America
FRIDAY 14 MAY
*** 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):
10.00 East and Southeast Asia 11895, South Asia 15110, China 12065
19.00 East and central Africa 11970 and 15535, West Africa 11610, Southern and central Africa 7425
Broadcast times on WRN
12.00 North America
17.00 Europe
*** Bridges with Africa ***
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):
14.00 South Asia 11835, 15745
18.00 East and central Africa 15535, Southern Africa 6020
20.00 East and central Africa 11970, West Africa 11610, Southern and central Africa 7425
Broadcast times on WRN (UTC):
04.30 Africa, Asia and North America
17.00 Europe
22.00 Asia and North America
*** Earth Beat ***
This week on Earth Beat we look at babies, green babies. Non Dr Seuss green - eco green. Also on the show, urban chicken- and bee-keeping, organic vegetables in India, and how to catch fog.
Broadcast times on SW (UTC):
10.30 East and Southeast Asia 11895, South Asia 15110, China 12065
*** Classic Dox ***
'Westerbork's List' (Orig. Broadcast May 2005)
In 1945 the Dutch transit camp of Westerbork was liberated from the Nazis at the end of World War Two. More than 100,000 Jews had passed through the camp. But only 5,000 survived. Three survivors tell their moving stories to producer Chris Chambers.
Broadcast times on WRN
12.00 North America
*** 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
(R Netherlands)