Tom Bijvoet, publisher of Dutch the magazine, introduces listeners to a wide range of topics related to the Netherlands, the Dutch and the Dutch diaspora. He regularly brings on an expert guest to discuss a specific aspect of Dutch culture, history and society. Based in Canada himself, he pays special attention in his choice of subjects to the global presence of Dutch people and their descendants.
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Tom Bijvoet, publisher of Dutch the magazine, introduces listeners to a wide range of topics related to the Netherlands, the Dutch and the Dutch diaspora. He regularly brings on an expert guest to discuss a specific aspect of Dutch culture, history and society. Based in Canada himself, he pays special attention in his choice of subjects to the global presence of Dutch people and their descendants.
Dutch the podcast - Episode 16 - A Dutch-Canadian Childhood and a Father's PTSD
Dutch - The Podcast
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1 year ago
Dutch the podcast - Episode 16 - A Dutch-Canadian Childhood and a Father's PTSD
Arthurs Boers’s first memory of his father is of him hurling a potted plant through a picture window in a fit of rage. He recounts the event in the first chapter of his admirably honest, emotionally charged memoir, Shattered. We talk to Arthur about growing up Dutch in Canada, building greenhouses, intergenerational trauma, and the PTSD suffered by veterans of Indonesia’s War of Independence. We also delve into how those topics inspired the spiritual pilgrimage that led him from his family’s Calvinism to becoming an Anglican priest.
Dutch - The Podcast
Tom Bijvoet, publisher of Dutch the magazine, introduces listeners to a wide range of topics related to the Netherlands, the Dutch and the Dutch diaspora. He regularly brings on an expert guest to discuss a specific aspect of Dutch culture, history and society. Based in Canada himself, he pays special attention in his choice of subjects to the global presence of Dutch people and their descendants.
