vpro guide

Now for a change it's not myself proudly holding something up in front of the camera. It is somebody from my dear readership, emerging from anonymity! I hope she doesn't mind me uploading the picture, I think I made it small enough. And I thank her very much for sending the photo. For the information of everybody non Dutch: the VPRO Gids is a TV guide. Not just any TV guide mind you, it is the VPRO Guide! Dutch public TV and radio are hard to explain. The programs are made by government funded associations. The more members such an association has, the more airtime it gets for its programs. It's really very old fashioned, there is a catholic association, a protestant one, a socialist one, and a couple of secular ones. And petite ones for muslims and buddhists, and maybe more, I would have to look that up. But I'm not going to. The VPRO used to be protestant, a long long time ago. Nowadays the VPRO is for people like us. Me and you, my dear readership.

My dear father-in-law has also received his VPRO-Gids.