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Saturday 11 February RNW - NEWS AND ANALYSIS FROM THE NETHERLANDS IN 10 LANGUAGES, WORLDWIDE 24/7 ON RADIO, TV AND ONLINE

Classic Dox

Classic Dox presents the best of Radio Netherlands Worldwide documentaries from our archives on subjects ranging from human rights and development to arts, culture and history – as well as insightful or...

Radio Show: The Lonely Funeral

Every year up to twenty people die completely alone in Amsterdam. There are no friends or family to prepare their funeral or mourn over the body. No one, that is, except a civil servant and a poet.

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Radio Show: The Food of the Gods

Chocolate might be the western world’s most desired edible product. For some it’s comfort food, for others a substitute for sex. Dheera Sujan traces the history of the fussy cacao plant and its precious bean....

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Radio Show: Let Them Eat Cake

Historians agree that Marie Antoinette never uttered the most famous quote attributed to her. But legend has it she did bring the recipe for her favourite cake from Austria to France.

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Radio Show: Diner Pensant

A diner pensant, or dinner discussion, is a unique Dutch phenomenon. Michele Ernsting sits down to a four course meal with food philosopher Michiel Korthals to talk about the role of food in society.

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Radio Show: Truffle Wars

Ann-Marie Michel travelled to Italy’s Umbria region, famous for its truffles. She discovered a war being waged for this precious, if odorous, delicacy. Truffle hunters were even killing their rival’s truffle hunting d...

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Radio Show: Baking Holy Bread

For forty years Antoine de Bakker earned his living making and improving machines used to produce hosts for the Catholic Church. On the eve of his retirement, he tells his story to his daughter in this award-winning program....

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Radio Show: In the Shark's Domain

Why are we so entranced by the image of the shark, the great white predator of the deep? Maybe because he's such a perfect metaphor for fear and a destiny we cannot control.

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Radio Show: A boat trip through Borneo

Borneo is one of the top five places on earth where wildlife is most endangered. One area seriously threatened is the Sebangau peat swamp forest in Kalimantan where the world's largest population of orangutans is dwindling fast....

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Radio Show: The Winged Muse

The regal, enchanting swan has inspired so much memorable poetry, music and imagery that one might almost forget that this beautiful, long-necked creature also has a private life off stage in Nature.

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Radio Show: Buffalo Nation

Romantic images from the American Old West feature majestic buffalo grazing on prairie grass or thundering across the Great Plains. In the battle for control of the Plains, the buffalo was almost wiped out. ...