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This week on Curious Orange (the radio show)…
It’s the NL-NY 400 party!
What’s that mean?
It means that 400 years ago, Henry Hudson landed a Dutch ship on the shores of what is now New York City… and New Amsterdam was born! Now, 400 years later, we are celebrating the little bits of Dutchness that have lingered [...]

This week on Curious Orange (the radio show)…
It’s the fourth - and last - part in our Dutch in Afghanistan series: When the going gets tough.
In our last days in Afghanistan, a rocket attack killed one soldier and wounded 6 others. We’ll hear more about that from a soldier’s perspective - how they deal with [...]

This week on Curious Orange (the radio show)…
It’s part three of our Dutch in Afghanistan series - On-Base, but Off-Duty.
We’ll take you for breakfast at the Afghan bakery, a portable lunch on the road, and, a little later on, a (non-alcoholic!) drink at Echo’s bar. And then it’s the weekend - with salsa lessons on [...]

This week on Curious Orange (the radio show)…
It’s part two of our series on the Dutch in Afghanistan - “Just Doing My Job”.
We’ll hear stories of soldiers working, fighting, and rebuilding in Afghanistan… including the guy who walks in front of the trucks - scanning for road-side bombs, a police officer who volunteered to go [...]

This week on Curious Orange (the radio show)…
We’ve got the first in a 4-part series of Dutch-in-Afghanistan shows. This week we’ll stick with the basics and “Define the Mission” - we’ll tell you why the Dutch are there and what civilians, soldiers, and politicians think about it.
We’ll also tell you what the Dutch doing, how [...]

This week on Curious Orange (the radio show)…
Are you looking for a direct connection with God? Well, we can give you the phone number. We’ll talk to the Dutch artist who came up with this controversial calling line.
And, the Dutch are doing business in Vietnam… in record numbers. We’ll hear a story from one such [...]

Wow. Our second post already. And only 5 minutes after our first post!
This week on Curious Orange (the radio show)…
Van Gogh’s Starry Night painting is back in Holland for the first time in 20 years - along with all the starry paraphernalia you can imagine. Radio Netherlands’ David Swatling will take us on a tour [...]