Programme schedule for Thursday 9 February - Friday 17 February 2012

Times and frequencies for your region

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

The list includes first airings of RNW's main features. The programmes are repeated throughout the week. Times are in UTC. 

THURSDAY 9 FEBRUARY

14:00 South Asia Wired

This week on South Asia Wired, we feature a harrowing story on modern day witch hunting in Chhattisgarh as three women recount how they were beaten, stripped and electrocuted after they were accused of being witches. And we hear from the people who are trying to combat this medieval practice by introducing modern ideas of science and law.

FRIDAY 10 FEBRUARY

00:00 Bridges with Africa

• More than 20,000 flee Mali as Tuareg rebels step up their offensive against the government
• The Rwandan taxi cyclist going for Olympic gold
• And the new album from Congo’s hottest R N B group, Makoma

03:00 Earth Beat

Valentine’s Special

This week on Earth Beat... we go all gooey on the inside, for people with a passion for what they do. There was the man who panned for gold to make a very special ring, the tea drinker who turned her love of a nice cuppa into a career, and a woman mapping where we make out. Pucker up, cos this show’s a labour of LOVE.

SATURDAY 11 FEBRUARY

02:00 The State We're In

Valentine’s Special 

How a Palestinian Romeo crept through illegal tunnels to be with his Juliet in Gaza. Why an American sociologist thinks that monogamy virtually guarantees cheating. What happened when a woman in Toronto answered an ad for female escorts. And how a man annoyed a woman so much on a flight... she married him.

SUNDAY 12 FEBRUARY

Another chance to hear programmes you may have missed earlier in the week.

MONDAY 13 FEBRUARY

01:00 European Jazz Stage

From the Mississippi Hall at the 2010 North Sea Jazz Festival, it's a line-up of unknown, but promising artists.

16-year-old Canadian jazz phenomenon Nicky Yanofsky, the incredible Royal Conservatory Big Band packed with young talent, and Maite Hontelé, a young woman from Holland who's blowing her 'trompeta del son' across the port of Rotterdam.

Your host is Benjamin Herman. 

17.30 Global Perspective

Who says I can’t die… or live?

Bun Chai, who is paralysed from the neck down, made a public appeal to the Hong Kong government for the right to end his life… and in the process found a way to live. We hear Bun Chai’s story from Radio Television Hong Kong.

19:00 Africa in Progress

The taboo of menstruation

On a continent where most people own mobile phones, simple things such as sanitary towels are still taken as a luxury. Many girls in Africa skip more than a full month of school because they cannot afford sanitary towels or tampons at the time of their menstruation. Instead, they use and reuse old unhygienic rags.

It is also taboo in some African cultures to speak about menstruation.

In this programme, we try to break this taboo. We speak with the girls who are affected and we hear about simple and affordable sanitary pads that could be a solution to this problem.

TUESDAY 14 FEBRUARY

01:55 Commonwealth Story

Sister Rose by Lydia Vonyler (Grenada). Lessons in lying. Commonwealth Short Stories Competition 2010. Read by Dona Croll.

WEDNESDAY 15 FEBRUARY

Another chance to hear programmes you may have missed earlier in the week.

THURSDAY 16 FEBRUARY

14:00 South Asia Wired

South Asia Wired features stories from the region, the Diaspora, and events here in Europe of interest to people from South Asia.

FRIDAY 17 FEBRUARY

00:00 Bridges with Africa

Programme linking Africans in Africa and Africans in the Diaspora. Every week we bring you interviews, feature stories and African music. From culture and business to scandals and sports. You'll hear what makes Africans tick.

03:00 Earth Beat

Programme monitoring the Earth's heartbeat. We look at our footprint on this big round world of ours and run stories about the people trying to make that footprint lighter. Your host is Marnie Chesterton.

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