YDU at Hermitage Amsterdam

Live interview from Berlin with Martin Baer – director. Two hundred orchestral musicians are playing Beethoven’s Ninth – Freude schöner Götterfunken. A power cut strikes just a few bars before the last movement. Problems like this are the least of the worries facing the only symphony orchestra in the Congo. In the 15 years of…

Director of the film Cinema Komunisto explains on her first encounter with Avala film: ”I first went into the Avala Film studios when I was a student in film school. Sent there to get equipment for a student film, I found myself overwhelmed by the atmosphere of the place. It was immense, a ghost town…

Recorded for the English Breakfast radio Amsterdam, where me and Gary both live, we sat down at his home where he played me a few tunes and we had a wonderful conversation on his latest book: Everyday Astrology. In this audio segment only a quarter of the entire conversation is used for broadcasting but it…

Writer of the tattoo chronicles but firstly best know for the TV series Miaimi Inc. Kat von D came down to Amsterdam and had a chat with us in the studio very, very early in the morning after a jetlag and us all in need for good coffee. That day at least 10 other interviews…

Director Richie speaks to me and Mike Berry live on his wonderful documentary about a small village in Ireland fighting for their rights and sanity against the giant Shell, who wants to drill for oil and gas just of the coast of their lovely village and hence trying to bring a pipeline straight through their…

After seeing the documentary film ”The Rainbow Warriors of Waiheke Island” by Dutch director Suzanne Raes I decided to dedicate a special hour to it and I also invited two former crew members- Rien and Martini-of the (in)famous ship of Greenpeace to join us live in the studio through a telephonic conversation in which we…