Bridging Worlds
Bridging Worlds brings you stories and conversations on Dutch American heritage, relations and the Dutch American experience. Bridging Worlds is a podcast by the Netherland-America Foundation.
Production and host: Laila Frank
Vocals: Vivienne Aerts
Sound engineer: Andy Teerlink
- Update frequency
- every 39 days
- Average duration
- 28 minutes
- Episodes
- 10
- Years Active
- 2022 - 2023
Move fast and go East!
The start up and scale up scene on the East coast is growing more Dutch. Two price winning CEO's - Josefien Groot from Qlayers and Remcro Treuren from Webinargeek - tell their story.
Barry Nieuwenhui…
Barry Nieuwenhui…
00:30:53 |
Sun 05 Mar 2023
Pella, Iowa: the tale of a Dutch town in the Midwest
Pella, Iowa: a town of 10.000 founded by Dutch Dominee Scholte in 1847. If you are crossing the US and are craving Gouda cheese, stroopwafels, mills and tulips - this is the place to go. But what is …
00:30:57 |
Thu 19 Jan 2023
How it started, how it's going
Jacques Detiger (now 87) jumped on a coal ship in the early 1950's to the US and became one of the most successful entrepreneurs The Netherlands has ever known. Floridian Jonathan Cordoba (24) just …
00:23:51 |
Thu 17 Nov 2022
Living with water; lessons from an engineer and an artist
10 years after hurricane Sandy the first flood wall is operating in NYC. Engineer and VP of Arcadis Edgar Westerhof explains how the city deals with the challenges of being surrounded by water. In Mi…
00:25:56 |
Thu 20 Oct 2022
A royal visit to the US and 1 billion healthy and happy people
A royal visit and a business mission to the Texas and California early September 2022. Counselor for Economy & Climate at Netherlands Embassy in Washington DC Bart van Bolhuis explains what's at sta…
00:27:03 |
Fri 02 Sep 2022
A career diplomat leaves The Netherlands; parting interview with Marja Verloop
Chargé d'affaires Marja Verloop leaves the Netherlands after three years. A parting interview about her time in The Netherlands, her view on diplomacy and the war in Ukraine.
00:33:55 |
Mon 25 Jul 2022
Paying gratitude
8 World War II veterans, one Rosie the Riveter and 100 Dutch families that maintain the graves of fallen American soldiers came together to pay their gratitude. You'll meet a couple of them in this …
00:26:35 |
Thu 16 Jun 2022
It's all about the music
What makes a good song for Eurovision and the American Song Contest? Eurovision winner Lenny Kuhr explains. And renowned conductor Paul Agnew and students from Juilliard School of Music and The Hague…
00:25:47 |
Thu 19 May 2022
A memoir on WWII and a comedian on Dutch American Friendship Day
A conversation with Edith Velmans (96 years old) and her daughter Hester Velmans about living thru World War II as a teenager, remembering and forgetting, the past ,the present and Edith's beautifu…
00:28:23 |
Thu 21 Apr 2022
The Pilgrims, a drummer, and a water engineer S01E01
In this first episode, historian Susan Suer and host Laila Frank follow into the footsteps of the Pilgrims time in Leiden. Laila also speaks with Amsterdam born and raised drummer Phillipe Lemm about…
00:36:14 |
Thu 17 Mar 2022
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