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The Lost City in the Amazon rainforest - O'Hanlon's Heroes
In the eighth (and final) episode of the first season, O'Hanlon travels behind the explorer Percy Fawcett (1867 - 1925). Fawcett is a British explorer. At the request of the Bolivian government, he carried out land measurements in the border area of Bolivia and Brazil. He investigated the architecture of the Incas and went on an expedition to a so-called hidden city deep in the Amazon. He never returned.
We are about to travel to a pristine piece of nature: the Amazon rainforest. There, where Redmond lives up and where his hero Percy Fawcett in 1925 led him, along with his son, in search of a lost city in the middle of the jungle. The British Fawcett had read about this in an old manuscript. In it, a Portuguese explorer wrote in 1753 about a city with gold and silver mines in the middle of the Amazon, an El Dorado.
The details of the city are described in detail, unfortunately the exact location is not. Fawcett and his son searched but never returned from the expedition. There was not even a trace left of them. The irony of being an explorer who has not discovered anything. Or he has discovered something but has never been able to document it. Our curiosity has in any case been triggered by it and we are about to dive into the Amazon region.
Original title: Op zoek naar een verdwenen stad
Author and adventurer Redmond O'Hanlon follows in the footsteps of his nineteenth century heroes: explorers who traveled the world and made the wildest discoveries.
Presented by: Redmond O'Hanlon
© VPRO February 2012
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Discovering Alaska with Steller - O'Hanlon Heroes (Season 2)
O'Hanlon travels in the footsteps of German explorer Georg Wilhelm Steller. Steller heard that in the Petersburg of the Tsar Peter the Great, a certain captain Bering was preparing for a huge journey. The goal was to see where the Russian empire ended in Siberia.
Did it stop somewhere or was Russia attached in the east to the freshly founded America? Could you walk overland from Petersburg to New York? The ambitious Steller wanted to be part of this expedition at all cost. But that was not allowed. While Bering traveled through Siberia with a huge team of scientists and researchers and took almost ten years to reach the east coast of Siberia, Steller stayed in his neighborhood.
In Kamchatka he got a chance to board. Together with Bering he crossed over to the yet undiscovered Alaska. As soon as Bering saw the coast he wanted to turn around in order to be home before the winter storms. After a huge fight Steller disembarked, for a brief moment:just for ten hours. He collected loads of plants, shot a bird from the sky and saw some tools from an Indian. That was his discovery of America. The Russians would still exploit Alaska for a century and a half as a colony. On the way back Bering and a large part of the crew died from scurvy.
No one believed in Steller's advice to eat plants and vegetables. After a year they built a smaller ship from the wood of the wreck, with which they reached the coast of Siberia. Steller would die on his way to Petersburg, half-drunk frozen to death on a sledge. For a long time his name threatened to fall into oblivion. The Russians claimed the discovery of Alaska and did not want to give that honor to a German. Later his papers still remained.
O'Hanlon's Heroes is a series of documentaries in which the British writer Redmond O'Hanlon follows in the footsteps of his heroes: naturalists, explorers and adventurers from the 19th century.
Presented by: Redmond O'Hanlon
Camera: Jackó van 't Hof
Research: Adelheid Kapteijn
Production: Nicole Frints en Nina Huisman
Direction: Roel van Broekhoven
© VPRO January 2014
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Is Spain the right choice? | VPRO World Stories
After a year Spain the question is: Do we stay or are we going back to Nicaragua? Is life in Andalusia, a region of Spain the right choice? What would it mean to stay in Spain for the Stef and his family and how are Andalusians in general thinking about their future?
A year ago, Stef and his family still lived in Nicaragua, in a quiet area of the pleasant village of Masaya. But his street turned into a war zone when the country went into a deep crisis and President Daniel Ortega cracked down the protests. Stef searched for a place to stay and ended up with his wife and children in Andalusia. To find his way and get to know this part of Spain better, in this six-part series he writes letters to the inhabitants. Stef discovers Andalusia on the basis of those letters, but parallel to this story you follow his personal situation, which of course is strongly influenced by the crisis in Nicaragua.
After a year in Andalusia, and 385 letters later, the question for Stef and Audrey is whether they should return to Nicaragua or better stay. Andalusia is a safe haven, but does not yet feel like home. Stef wonders what is needed for that. Work for Audrey? A future perspective? What do the Andalusians actually think about their own future?
Original title: futuro – brieven aan andalusië (6/6)
Oktober 2019
Director & Presentation: Stef Biemans
Research & Production: Barbara Smit
Edit: Pelle Asselbergs & Stef Biemans
Camera: Niels van Koevorden, Joost van Herwijnen
Sound: Tim van Peppen, Simone Galavazi, Jillis
Commissioning Editors: Joyce Daamen
Production: vpro Nicole Frints
Audio post-processing: Tim van Peppen
Production: vpro Nicole Frints
Color correction: Gerhard van der Beek
Production: vpro Nicole Frints
Subtitling: Daniel Naamani
Communication vpro: Bert Bentsink
Online Editors: Elmar Veerman &
Thanks to: Roel van Broekhoven
On VPRO broadcast you will find nonfiction videos with English subtitles, French subtitles and Spanish subtitles, such as documentaries, short interviews and documentary series.
This channel offers some of the best travel series from the Dutch broadcaster VPRO. Our series explore cultures from all over the world. VPRO storytellers have lived abroad for years with an open mind and endless curiosity, allowing them to become one with their new country. Thanks to these qualities, they are the perfect guides to let you experience a place and culture through the eyes of a local. Uncovering the soul of a country, through an intrinsic and honest connection, is what VPRO and its presenters do best.
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Research Center for Material Culture
The Research Center for Material Culture (RCMC) is a flagship research institute within the Tropenmuseum (Amsterdam), Museum Volkenkunde (Leiden) and the Afrika Museum (Berg en Dal) that serves as a focal point for research on ethnographic collections in the Netherlands. We foster interdisciplinary research, focused on our internationally renowned collections, which comprise over 370.000 objects and almost 1.000.000 photographs cataloguing the diversity of world cultures.
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Een jaar na hun fusie openen het Tropenmuseum, Afrika Museum en Museum Volkenkunde het Research Center for Material Culture (RCMC). Een instituut voor collectie gerelateerd wetenschappelijk onderzoek van internationaal topniveau. De onderzoekstaak van de drie gefuseerde musea naar materiële cultuur worden hiermee ondergebracht in één gezamenlijk kenniscentrum.
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How do Spanish people deal with Franco and the dark past? | VPRO Documentary
Until his death in 1975, Francisco Franco ruled Spain with an iron hand. How do Spanish people from Andalusia deal with the dark past? Have Spanish people processed the dark past already or is Franco still alive in the people´s mind? Has the past left its traces in the region of Andalusia?
A year ago, Stef and his family still lived in Nicaragua, in a quiet area of the pleasant village of Masaya. But his street turned into a war zone when the country went into a deep crisis and President Daniel Ortega cracked down the protests. Stef searched for a place to stay and ended up with his wife and children in Andalusia. To find his way and get to know this part of Spain better, in this six-part series he writes letters to the inhabitants. Stef discovers Andalusia on the basis of those letters, but parallel to this story you follow his personal situation, which of course is strongly influenced by the crisis in Nicaragua.
On November 20, 1975 dictator Franco died. This is a very important date in Spain. The dark past does not seem to have been processed yet, because much of what happened was kept silent for years. The stories that Stef picks up remind him a lot of the dictatorship in Nicaragua. The repression, the division it evokes. Because when it comes to Franco, the whole of Spain seems to be messed up again.
Original title: de tentakels van Franco – brieven aan andalusië (3/6)
September 2019
Director & Presentation: Stef Biemans
Research & Production: Barbara Smit
Edit: Pelle Asselbergs & Stef Biemans
Camera: Niels van Koevorden, Joost van Herwijnen
Sound: Tim van Peppen, Simone Galavazi, Jillis
Commissioning Editors: Joyce Daamen
Production: vpro Nicole Frints
Audio post-processing: Tim van Peppen
Production: vpro Nicole Frints
Color correction: Gerhard van der Beek
Production: vpro Nicole Frints
Subtitling: Daniel Naamani
Communication vpro: Bert Bentsink
Online Editors: Elmar Veerman &
Thanks to: Roel van Broekhoven
On VPRO broadcast you will find nonfiction videos with English subtitles, French subtitles and Spanish subtitles, such as documentaries, short interviews and documentary series.
This channel offers some of the best travel series from the Dutch broadcaster VPRO. Our series explore cultures from all over the world. VPRO storytellers have lived abroad for years with an open mind and endless curiosity, allowing them to become one with their new country. Thanks to these qualities, they are the perfect guides to let you experience a place and culture through the eyes of a local. Uncovering the soul of a country, through an intrinsic and honest connection, is what VPRO and its presenters do best.
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TILBURG Fun fair slide, Netherlands
British working class - O'Hanlon Heroes (Season 2)
In the fourth episode of the second season, O'Hanlon travels further behind Sir Henry Alexander Wickham (part 2). He is an almost forgotten and somewhat dubious hero from nineteenth-century Britain.
Henry Alexander Wickham, who returned from Brazil with a wealth of stolen rubber seeds, awaited a cold shower in England. As a working class boy he was kindly thanked for his efforts and then put aside. Redmond O'Hanlon firmly believes that the British Empire would never have become so powerful without the class system.
In Victorian England a laborer remained a laborer, regardless of his abilities or ambition, unless he, like Henry Wickham, stepped on a boat and moved to a British colony. Because as a Brit you suddenly represented something, regardless of your social class. Thus thousands of workers boys fled their fate in the dribble England and tried their luck beyond the equator. And more than half of them lost their lives. One hundred and fifty years later, O'Hanlon is still angry about this inequality. And that is why it is high time for him to introduce his greatest hero Richard Francis Burton. Because this explorer has always resigned himself against the narrow-mindedness and prudence of Victorian England.
As a brilliant polyglot, Burton translated erotic works such as the Kamasutra and the Arabian Nights into English and with that alone he laid a bomb under English chastity. Redmond re-reads with red ears Burton's work and dives with renewed energy into the life of Ruffian Dick as he was called - the Brute Burton.
Original title: Working class heroes
O'Hanlon's Heroes is a series of documentaries in which the British writer Redmond O'Hanlon follows in the footsteps of his heroes: naturalists, explorers and adventurers from the 19th century.
Presented by: Redmond O'Hanlon
Camera: Jackó van 't Hof
Research: Adelheid Kapteijn
Production: Nicole Frints en Nina Huisman
Direction: Roel van Broekhoven
© VPRO December 2013
On VPRO broadcast you will find nonfiction videos with English subtitles, French subtitles and Spanish subtitles, such as documentaries, short interviews and documentary series.
This channel offers some of the best travel series from the Dutch broadcaster VPRO. Our series explore cultures from all over the world. VPRO storytellers have lived abroad for years with an open mind and endless curiosity, allowing them to become one with their new country. Thanks to these qualities, they are the perfect guides to let you experience a place and culture through the eyes of a local. Uncovering the soul of a country, through an intrinsic and honest connection, is what VPRO and its presenters do best.
So subscribe to our channel and we will be delighted to share our adventures with you!
more information at
Visit additional youtube channels bij VPRO broadcast:
VPRO Broadcast:
VPRO Metropolis:
VPRO Documentary:
VPRO World Stories:
VPRO Extra:
VPRO VG (world music):
VPRO 3voor12 (alternative music):
VPRO 3voor12 extra (music stories):
English, French and Spanish subtitles by Ericsson and co-funded by the European Union.
The Event At Rebecca Farm
Our dear friend Becky Broussard passed away this past Christmas. A friend of mine and I put this together for her a few years ago - and there's a couple of glimpses of her in it. This is one of the premiere eventing venues in the world, and Becky built it from scratch in Montana. She will be sorely missed, and for more information please visit their website RebeccaFarm.org