RN Documentary: Holland's Second Queen - Annie MG Schmidt
Series: RN Documentaries
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Length: 00:29:30
There isn’t a Dutch person alive who doesn’t know the characters Jip and Janneke – toddlers who have all sorts of adventures that can be read out in perfect bedtime story chunks. Going onto their 50th year, the ageless toddlers have been fixtures on the bookshelves of 3 generations of Dutch people. Their creator Annie MG Schmidt also wrote hugely popular radio and television shows and a cluster of toe tapping musicals that pop up inevitably at pub singalongs all over the country. Annie MG Schmidt is a Dutch icon. She wrote about very Dutch characteristics, keeping the mood light even when showcasing very serious issues. Her work is etched on the Dutch psyhe. She died in 1995 at the age of 84. Her work never will.
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There isn’t a Dutch person alive who doesn’t know the characters Jip and Janneke – toddlers who have all sorts of adventures that can be read out in perfect bedtime story chunks. Going onto their 50th year, the ageless toddlers have been fixtures on the bookshelves of 3 generations of Dutch people. Their creator Annie MG Schmidt also wrote hugely popular radio and television shows and a cluster of toe tapping musicals that pop up inevitably at pub singalongs all over the country. Annie MG Schmidt is a Dutch icon. She wrote about very Dutch characteristics, keeping the mood light even when showcasing very serious issues. Her work is etched on the Dutch psyhe. She died in 1995 at the age of 84. Her work never will.
Transcript
PROGRAMME: VOX HUMANA
TITLE : Holland’s Second Queen: Annie MG
Schmidt.
PROG NO: 1003661
PROD/PRESENTER: DHEERA SUJAN
DATE OF B’CAST: 11 + 17 April
DATE OF PRODUCTION: 29 March 2004
DURATION: 29’30
SIG TUNE
Radio Netherlands presents Vox Humana.
CD 232.020 Ja Zuster Nee Zuster Tr 3 De Twips 3’00 (inc end)
A.MG Schmidt/H.Bannink Nikkelin Nelis NN500.402-2
TEASERS UNDER MUSIC BED – fades out after my intro script
Flip all she did ‘14
She wrote children’s story… ..advertisements
Teaser A queen ‘6
She was v famous.. everybody loved her
Flip all she did ‘14
She wrote children’s story… ..advertisements
Teaser A – love ‘16
She was supposed to be.. ..played a v imp role in her life
Flip unique voice ‘8
She can’t be compared to anyone.. ..unique voice laughs
Teaser Flip ID ‘5
My name is.. famous author...
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Musical Works
CD 232.020 Ja Zuster Nee Zuster Tr 3 De Twips 3’00 (inc end)
A.MG Schmidt/H.Bannink Nikkelin Nelis NN500.402-
CD – 232.021 Ja Zuster Nee Zuster Tr 2 Met U Onder een paraplu
A.MG Schmidt / H.Bannink Nikkelen Nelis. NN 500.403-2
241.0777 CD 2 Tr 12 Uche-uche-uche Comp:AMGS/Wim Ibo. Perf: Hetty Blok / Lia Dorana Fav 2-23001
MUSIC 241.0777 CD 2 TR 1 Perf: Wim Ibo (Other details as above)
MUSIC X fade into (cd song) 232.019
Carrier + Song titile Ja Zuster Nee Zuster. Perf Ensemble. Comp:AMGS/ H.Bannink. Nikkelen Nelis NN 500.401-2
MUSIC – Cup of tea 212269 De Familie Doorsnee. Tr 7 “Cup of Tea” Perf: AMGS/ Cor Lemaire. Perf: Hetty Blok/Joop Vischer
Philips. 514 294 2 +-1’30
CD – M’n Opa C232019 Tr 10 (Details above) 1’00
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Jonathan Goldstein
Posted on February 27, 2005 at 05:59 AM | Permalink
Review of RN Documentary: Hollands Second Queen: Annie MG Schmidt
The mundane facts of Schmidt’s life, a woman who is arguably the most popular writer that Holland has ever produced, is not cut from the same mold as the regular romantic stories of genius. She sounds like an ordinary person who had a great gift for the kind of literature she wrote. The flip side is that the average American listener might find the facts of her life a little too mundane to exist as a primer on who she actually is as a writer. Although three million copies of her work have sold in Holland, making her sales only second to the bible in that country, I imagine most here are probably not familiar with her and in the piece you don’t actually gain access to the worlds she created. It might have been helpful to have heard a little bit more of the work itself. It’s sort of like explaining fifty years from now to the Dutch who the woman who created Harry Potter was. It’s hard for us to understand her importance without more of a context and access to the work itself. The archival tape of her Dutch musical radio soap operas in the 50’s are really nice as is the brief readings and the use of music to evoke the age. This would be nice as a part of a series on writers from other countries.