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This week on Curious Orange (the radio show)…
Islam not on the menu at Ramadan feast
Muslims in the Netherlands have been given a hard time of it recently, so it is perhaps natural that they are trying to counter some of the bad press they receive. All over Amsterdam, communities are organising iftar feasts, where people [...]

This week on Curious Orange (the radio show)…
Utrecht’s Hoog Catherijne shopping centre is hardly the sort of place you’d expect to find hordes of homeless people - but ten years ago that’s exactly where they lived.
Thanks to a multi-agency approach that involved the creation of hostels for ex-addicts, there’s now a bed for everyone in [...]

This week on Curious Orange (the radio show)…
We are going to float your boat. Big time! As you know, the Dutch have been connected to the water for centuries.
The pay off this week? We’ll hear why - for some people at least - the coolest place to live on is the water.
Then we’ll take you [...]

This week on Curious Orange (the radio show)… it’s the end of an era.
Our era, that is.
We already told you that Curious Orange is changing… this week we’ll reveal what those changes are.
Then we’ll spend the rest of the show in the Curious Orange audio vaults listening to our favourite radio moments… join us for [...]

This week on Curious Orange (the radio show)…
Things are changing around here… so, before we tune out for the summer, we wanted to say thanks to you, our listeners… and we didn’t want to hurt the earth - or your pocket-book - doing it.
So we’ll start by taking you shopping in Amsterdam, former diamond capitol… [...]

This week on Curious Orange (the radio show)…
Holland remembers Anne Frank on what would have been her 80th birthday. We’ll hear what it means to have her second and third diaries returned to the Netherlands…
Political Editor John Tyler will be in with Headlines from the Hague… this week it’s Geert Wilders, The Sequel (to the [...]

This week on Curious Orange (the radio show)…
We’ve all heard of the famous Dutch painter Rembrandt… but what about his friend and contemporary Jan Lievens? We’ll tell you why history has forgotten him.
And, Dutch women don’t seem to want to be “on top”… at least not in the police force. Political Editor John Tyler will [...]

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Right-wing politician Geert Wilders won big in the EU elections… but, in many social circles, it’s still not cool to admit you voted for him. We’ll (try to) explain why that is.
Meanwhile, in arts and culture, Philip Smet will take us on a tour of art without a [...]

This week on Curious Orange (the radio show)…
What happens when you scrape off the top 40cm of earth in Enkhuizen, Holland? You find 3-thousand-year-old stuff, that’s what. We’ll take you to the site of the excavation.
We’ll also take you to the Bijlmermeer - 12 years ago it was the site of a tragic plane crash, [...]

This week on Curious Orange (the radio show)…
The Dutch need donors… sperm donors, that is. But Nederlanders aren’t exactly lining up to do their fatherly duty… and we’ll tell you why.
We’ll also take you to the Amsterdam Hilton, where, 40 years ago, John and Yoko held their bed-in for peace.
And we’ll tour a 250-year-old Dutch [...]