Dutch the podcast - Episode 23 - Dresden 1957, Ontario's Worst Untold Workplace Tragedy

Host Tom Bijvoet finds out what his Canadian producer and co-presenter Mike Wixson has learned by sitting in on 24 episodes of Dutch the podcast. Plus a preview of their plans for next season.

21 Aug 202440min

When Henry Baron came to the USA he was fourteen years old and hardly spoke any English. He had drop out of school after only a year in America to find work, because his immigrant family needed the mo...

25 Juli 202450min

Dutch the magazine columnist Stuart Billinghurst came to the Netherlands from England purely by chance. Twenty years later he is still there. He tells us how he stumbles through life in Holland.

25 Juli 202439min

When he was eighty years old, Boudewyn van Oort was told that he had suffered from PTSD. His early youth in a wartime Japanese internment camp in the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia) impacted his who...

25 Juli 202453min

At the age of 19, Peter Manshande was sent to Nazi Germany from his home North-Holland. There he worked as a forced labourer for two-and-half years, under increasingly hazardous circumstances. Peter s...

13 Juni 202449min

It is 1950 and five-year-old Anna makes the long journey by ship from the Netherlands to Canada. We talk to author Julia Sinke and illustrator Abigayle Sinke about their children’s book that tells the...

21 Apr 202439min

Stamppot, liquorice, stroopwafels, cheese... We hear from a new generation of managers at Holland Shopping Centre about the enduring appeal of Dutch food for immigrants, their children and grandchildr...

23 Feb 202448min