Posts Tagged ‘show’

This week on Curious Orange, we told you about the opening of an exhibition in Australia… of Dutch art.
Intensely Dutch is a collection of “some of the most important post-war Dutch artists, including those associated with CoBrA (Copenhagen, Brussels, & Amsterdam) and art informel, and those who preceded them, such as Willem de Kooning”.
Even though [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]