The Love Letters

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The Love Letters is a podcast where I share what I love about my new adopted country, the Netherlands. Join me as I explore this love through musings, conversations and inquisitive explorations.

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Bonus: "Bobby Dear" Soundscape

Join me as I visit Lenny van Gessel in her home to view some of the documents she utilised for the book "Bobby Dear". To view the actual documents from this soundscape go to Instagram @bobby.dear2025

Jun 24, 2025•5 min•Ep. 4

The "Bobby Dear" Love Letters - Lenny van Gessel | Ep.3

Imagine one summer day sitting in your grandmother's garden and she brings out a stash of letters from her correspondences to your grandfather. After reading them, what would you do? Fortunately for us, author Lenny van Gessel turned these gems into a novel called "Bobby Dear" and shared these memories. The book retraces the footsteps of a young couple in love trying to lead a normal life under Nazi occupation. It is a celebration of courage, freedom and the determination to fight back for the s...

Jun 22, 2025•37 min•Ep. 3

Women in the Dutch Resistance - Sophie Poldermans | Ep.2

Sophie Poldermans is a best-selling author, international speaker, lawyer, lecturer and consultant on women’s leadership in times of conflict, crisis and change as well as an advocate for women’s rights around the globe. Poldermans is the author of "Desnoods met wanes" (Boekerij, 2023); the New York Post & Amazon best seller “Seducing and Killing Nazis” (USA, 2019); and "Hannie Schaft" (AO, 2003) for high school students. Poldermans has been carrying out research as to Hannie Schaft and the ...

Apr 17, 2025•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 2

Ringing the Fish Doorbell - Mark van Heukelum | Ep. 1

If you were an ecologist, how would you remind people of their inextricable link to nature and wildlife? How would you foster that relationship so that it became a pleasure to contribute to its well-being? Meet ecologist Mark van Heukelum, the concept developer of the ingenius, "Fish Doorbell" (De Visdeurbel). With this project, he found a truly unique way for fish and people to connect and for both to be the better from the interaction. So far, 2.7 million people from around the world have rung...

Apr 16, 2025•1 hr•Ep. 1

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