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Why Andere Tijden still stands out as one of the best Dutch television productions around — now with a stable embed and direct links to the full NTR version.
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This standalone post now has a fixed Dutch and English URL.
A nearly forgotten peace effort around The Troubles, retold through a Dutch TV programme that still feels unusually strong and precise.
Why Andere Tijden still holds up
Quality does not simply expire. This then-new Andere Tijden episode, aired on Friday 26 July 2024 on NPO 2, revisits an almost forgotten attempt at mediation that was both unusual and quietly bold.
That is exactly what the programme still does so well: it reloads a seemingly small historical story without sensationalism, but with just enough context to let it resonate on a much larger scale.
What the episode is about
“Dutch organiser Ange Wieberdink was in her early twenties when, in the mid-1970s, she set up a holiday and work camp for young people from Northern Ireland. The idea was born out of idealism. At the time Northern Ireland was being torn apart by The Troubles, a civil conflict between Catholics and Protestants rooted in deep class inequality. To give them breathing room from the constant threat back home, and in the hope that they might grow to understand one another, teenagers from both sides were brought together in the woods near Zeist. They listened to records, worked, swam and cycled, and politics back home was left untouched. For a while the division of Northern Ireland seemed far away, and solidarity much closer.” English rendering of the episode description for Noord-Ierse tieners van toen.
The earlier NPO embed on this spot turned out not to be a stable public iframe route. That is why this standalone page uses a working official YouTube embed, plus direct buttons to the full episode on the NTR page and the dedicated episode page on Andere Tijden.
Working official embed
Full episode
Watch the official player on the NTR page for Noord-Ierse tieners van toen, or open the episode page on Andere Tijden itself.
Why this post deserved its own URL
Backlog already contained a meaningful post with context, embed logic and outbound links. Giving it its own URL turns it into a cleaner and more stable sharing point: better for SEO, easier to send around and more logical as a standalone article than leaving it buried deep inside the archive.