Do foreign correspondents also get paid when there is no news?
That's what a listener of the BNNVARA podcast ‘Everyday Questions’ wondered. I was allowed to answer that question: https://open.spotify.com/episode/792poD8KHFivxX714zq4pF
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Radio interview: live in NPO Radio 1's 'De Wereld van BNNVARA'
Radio host Stephan Komduur invited me to be his guest on De Wereld van BNNVARA radio programme, which was aired last Sunday evening from 8pm to 10pm. During the first hour, we touched on several subjects, one of them being my trip to Saint-Louis earlier this year. If you understand Dutch, you can check out a visual radio fragment below.
De Nieuws BV op TV: the first hybrid radio/TV show of NPO Radio 1
Before I left for Kenya, we talked and daydreamed a lot about this concept at my previous employer, NPO Radio 1. But now it is finally here: BNNVARA programme ‘De Nieuws BV’ is the first hybrid Radio 1 show to be broadcasted on both radio and TV (NPO2) at the same time. The broadcasts were already visible on the regular channel of NPO Radio 1, and it looks very good.
The idea behind all of this was simple: talk shows on TV are actually nothing more than beautifully aired radio talkshows, and so you could easily turn a radio talkshow into a TV broadcast. Technically it is slightly more complicated, but there are many possibilities at hand.
The idea of broadcasting "radio on TV" simultaneously has been around for a long time - that’s what I learnt when I started doing more research for De Nieuws BV and later as an online coordinator at Radio 1. I found the best example with our ‘southern neighbors’, the Belgians, where broadcasts are made on both RTBF and La Une.
Just like in Hilversum, there were some major struggles at the Walloon broadcaster. There were claims that “the magic of radio” would disappear, for example (which is largely nonsense, according to my graduation research on 'visual radio'). All struggles and difficulties aside, I think it’s great that a Dutch broadcaster like BNNVARA finally dares to make a move towards a hybrid radio and TV programme, and I’m sure many more NPO Radio 1 shows will follow De Nieuws BV’s lead.
Click here to read more about visual radio, or click here to read more about the work I did at NPO Radio 1.
Goodwill Dumping: VARA Gids Interview
What happens when the lid of the container slams shut and our donated clothes embark on their global journey? That’s the main question film maker Teddy Cherim and fashion designer Lisa Konno wanted to answer in their BNNVARA documentary ‘Goodwill Dumping’.
Teddy and Lisa are literally following the massive amounts of donated clothing, which are sold many times before they end up on the ‘mitumba’ markets of Kenya. For an article in the Dutch VARA Gids magazine, I spoke with Teddy and Lisa when they shot Lisa’s ‘fashion creatures’ on Nairobi’s Gikomba Market.
You can read the article through Blendle, or click on the image below. ‘Goodwill Dumping’ will be premiering on the NFF, the Dutch Film Festival, and will air on Dutch TV station NPO3, Sunday 29 November at 00.10 o’clock.