The VPRO is a creative public broadcaster that aims to contribute to new insights and ideas since 1926 with groundbreaking stories and intelligent imagination. The VPRO-Gids is the television guide of the VPRO. Since 1974, it has been the successor to Vrije Geluiden, which...
On March 4, 2024, Hilversum turned 600 years old. From March 2 to 4, 2024, this was celebrated with as many Hilversummers as possible during the Jubilee Weekend. This also marked the start of a year-long celebration. The...
Tatort, Crime Scene, and Plaats Delict—all three are the same thing, namely the place where a crime has been committed. Last year, Germany issued a Tatort stamp in connection with the police series of the same name. I started searching through my police stamps to see if...
It seems like yesterday, the first infection in the Netherlands. Then-Minister for Medical Care & Sport, Bruno Bruins, announced the news via a note during the TV broadcast on February 27, 2020. We are one year into the...
We are continuing with the corona blogs, as a lot has happened since the last blog on December 15 (Christmas Story). As of January 23, 2021, we are dealing with the introduction of the curfew. That means that everyone between 9:00 PM...
One still comes across an AVRO stamp album with some regularity. Primarily in antique shops, flea markets, and book markets. In the stamp world, they are seen much less frequently. That is logical, too. Most of the time, the album is in mediocre to poor condition...
Last Sunday, the moment finally arrived: the first episode of a new TV season of Heel Holland Bakt on broadcaster MAX. During the broadcast of RTL Late Night on December 7, judge Janny van der Heijden was surprised with special stamps to mark the occasion...
To ensure the continued operation of telecommunications traffic to and from London, a tower was built in central London, in the Fitzrovia district on Cleveland Mews, a narrow one-way street, on the orders of the General Post Office (GPO). It would...
Science fiction is a popular genre of books, television series, and feature films. For many people, it is also a fun subject to build a thematic stamp collection with. Over time, there have been many beautiful stamps featuring this...
The German poet Friedrich (von) Schiller recently received a reminder to pay television and radio license fees. Quite remarkable, considering he passed away as early as 1805. And even stranger when you consider that the radio wasn't invented until around 1900....
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