Dutch radio compere to visit
Mr Tom Meyer, compere of the Dutch World Broadcasting System’s Happy Station programme, will visit Christchurch next month as part of a tour of Australia, New Zealand and Singapore. The Happy Station celebrated its fiftieth anniversary earlier this month, making it the oldest shortwave programme in the world — older even than Radio Nederland itself, which was set up in 1947. The station’s format is simple: to promote international friendship and understanding. The Happy Station broadcasts every Sunday in English and Spanish and, because Radio Nederland has transmitters in the Netherlands’ Antilles islands and on Madagascar, it can be heard in most parts of the world. Mr Meyer has been compere of the Happy Station for nine years. He is visiting New Zealand to mark the station’s golden anniversary and to meet some of his many listeners. He is an accomplished singer and presenter, and speaks fluently in five languages.
Mr Meyer will be in Christchurch from December 15 to 18.
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