In Kennismakers, a new dazzling science show on channel één, Tom De Cock invites the brightest minds in Flanders to join the live audience at home to introduce the wonderful world of science to viewers
Exclusive look behind the scenes at the crisis centre of the Belgian federal government service of interior affairs. Follow how the policy makers, governments, and operational services work together to ensure everyone in the country – from citizen to visitor, from festivalgoer to king – can feel safe.
After 'About Food' and 'On one', Kobe Ilsen again combines learning with humor and genuine curiosity. He dives into a new topic every Monday and Thursday. Because you have to admit: there are a lot of things you hear about, read about, use, see or do on a daily basis… but which you actually know very little about. Those are the topics that are discussed a lot in #weetik
Guy Moeyaert is a well-meaning colonial official in a jungle district of the Belgian Congo in the last years of white colonial rule, after the Second World War, a paternalistic system where the state, unable to be properly present all over the vast, sparsely populated country, collaborates systematically with the Roman Catholic missions -in his post, father Alexis- and private enterprise, in case mainly the mining company -locally represented by engineer Lenaers- which also helps out with money and labor for such public tasks as road building. Even his grip on the natives is weak, as they live under hereditary tribal leaders, which must take from its people what they are legally obliged to deliver to the state in taxes and labor; coercion is done by force, including whipping on the bare buttocks, which Guy hates. Guy also starts a love affair with Hélène Vermarcke, who gets estranged from her husband Luk (the three were already friends in Belgium) as he devotes all his efforts the their plantation, le