The complete transcription from the interviews 1962-1982 can be found on DBNL
Ten huize van … is a Flemish talk show that first appeared on TV1 (Eén) in 1957.
Each episode, presenter Joos Florquin visited a Famous Fleming or Famous Dutchman and interviewed him in his own home. For three days he installed himself in the home of the person in question, while his camera crew shot footage. Most of the interviewees were from the political or cultural world. The first guest was Gerard Walschap. More than 250 followed. The interviews centered on the interviewees. They were able to talk freely and were only in the picture themselves. In other words, true oral history.
Over the decades, Florquin interviewed an impressive number of people. The interviews were written down afterwards, compiled and published in a series of books. When Florquin died in 1978, the program was also stopped for a long time.
Only in the 1990s did new episodes appear around “At the home of”, this time with Edward De Maesschalck as interviewer (34 episodes). From 2003 Frieda Van Wijck took over the presentation.
An overview of many of the interviewed:
Naam | Uitzending | Boekdeel |
Aafjes Bertus | 1969 | 7 |
Alfrink Bernardus J. | 1971 | 9 |
Aubroeck Karel | 1958 | 2 |
Avermaete Roger | 1962 | |
Baekelmans Lode † | 1963 | 3 |
Baie Eugène † | 1961 | 10 |
Baksteen Dirk † | 1963 | 3 |
Baksteen Gerard † | 1963 | 3 |
Baur Frank † | 1960 | 16 |
Boon Constant | 1977 | 17 |
Boon Louis-Paul (2) † | 1971 | 8 |
Bosmans Phil | 1978 | 15 |
Bovy Vina | 1977 | 18 |
Brachin Pierre | 1967 | 8 |
Broekx P. † | 1965 | 16 |
Brugmans Henk | 1962 | 18 |
Brulez Raymond † | 1959 | 1 |
Burssens Amaat | 1962 | |
Cardijn Jozef † | 1962 | 3 |
Carmiggelt Simon (2) | 1972 | 9 |
Caspeele Hendrik | 1973 | |
Claes Ernest † | 1958 | 1 |
Collaer Paul | 1961 | |
Collin Fernand | 1964 | 3 |
Contrijn Jef | 1974 | |
Cool August | 1968 | 7 |
Coppé Albert (2) | 1973 | 10 |
Cornelis Hendrik | 1971 | |
Cox Jan † | 1976 | 17 |
Craeybeckx Lode † | 1966 | 4 |
Daan Lea | 1969 | |
Daisne Johan † | 1972 | 10 |
Darciel Elsa | 1975 | |
De Bock Eugène † | 1962 | 16 |
De Boeck Felix | 1958 | |
De Boeck Felix | 1967 | 1 |
De Clerck Oscar † | 1960 | |
Declerck Richard | 1977 | 17 |
De Coen Jeanne † | 1961 | |
De Cuyper Floris † | 1959 | |
De Hartog Jan | 1965 | 4 |
De Jong Marinus | 1959 | 18 |
De Keyser Paul † | 1961 | |
De Leebeeck Maria | 1977 | |
Delwaide Leo † | 1969 | 8 |
De Man Yvonne † | 1965 | 4 |
De Mayer Aloïs † | 1963 | |
Demedts André | 1968 | 6 |
De Meester Johan | 1965 | |
De Meester Louis | 1969 | 16 |
De Meyer Willem | 1964 | 14 |
De Muynck Gust | 1965 | 4 |
Den Doolaard A. (2) | 1971 | 9 |
Denys Willem (2) | 1978 | 15 |
De Pillecyn Filip † | 1959 | 1 |
De Raeymaeker Louis † | 1966 | 17 |
De Ridder André † | 1961 | 1 |
De Schryver August | 1968 | 7 |
De Smedt Emiel J. | 1977 | 15 |
De Smet Léon † | 1961 | 2 |
De Spot Jan † | 1977 | 16 |
De Sutter Ignace | 1977 | 14 |
De Sutter Jules † | 1967 | 15 |
De Troyer Prosper † | 1958 | 1 |
De Vocht Lodewijk † | 1958 | 13 |
De Vree Paul | 1972 | 13 |
De Waele Fernand J.M. † | 1966 | |
De Wit Gaspar † | 1961 | |
Diels Herman | 1968 | |
Diels Joris | 1968 | 6 |
Dille Denijs (2) | 1975 | 13 |
Dumon André † | 1963 | |
Elaut Leon † | 1965 | 4 |
Elsing Johan-Mark | 1977 | 15 |
Elström Harry | 1960 | |
Eyskens Gaston (2) | 1974 | 11 |
Fayat Hendrik | 1976 | 15 |
Gerlo Aloïs | 1973 | 13 |
Gevers Marie † | 1963 | 17 |
Geyl Pieter † | 1961 | 2 |
Gheyselinck Roger † | 1970 | |
Gijsen Marnix | 1959 | 1 |
Gijsen Marnix | 1974 | 12 |
Gilliams Maurice | 1968 | 5 |
Goris René | 1975 | 12 |
Grammens Flor | 1972 | 9 |
Gronon Rose † | 1969 | 6 |
Gunzburg Nico | 1967 | 9 |
Haanstra Bert | 1976 | 13 |
Haasse Hella (2) | 1975 | 12 |
Haesaerts Paul † | 1966 | 17 |
Hagedoorn Georgette (2) | 1975 | 13 |
Helman Albert | 1976 | 14 |
Herberigs Robert † | 1960 | |
Herckenrath Antoon † | 1974 | 12 |
Herreman Raymond † | 1960 | 2 |
Heymans Corneel † | 1963 | 3 |
Hoste Marcel A.J. † | 1974 | 18 |
Hullebroeck Emiel † | 1958 | 1 |
Indestege Luc † | 1965 | 5 |
Jacquemyns Pol † | 1967 | 16 |
Janssens Magda † | 1971 | 10 |
Jespers Floris † | 1959 | 5 |
Jespers Oscar † | 1958 | 5 |
Jonckheere Karel | 1968 | 5 |
Kimpe Reimond † | 1964 | 3 |
Knuvelder Gerard | 1974 | 14 |
Kuypers Julien † | 1962 | 5 |
Lamberty Max † | 1960 | 5 |
Lampo Hubert (2) | 1973 | 10 |
Langui Emile † | 1969 | 6 |
Lauwereys Modest † | 1962 | |
Leemans Victor † | 1967 | 7 |
Leys Fanny | 1960 | 5 |
Liebaers Herman | 1973 | |
Luns J.M.A.H. | 1968 | 6 |
Maes Jef | 1975 | 18 |
Magits Leo | 1966 | 8 |
Malfait Hubert † | 1968 | 16 |
Manteau Angèle | 1967 | 5 |
Marceau Félicien | 1976 | |
Major Louis | 1967 | 7 |
Martens Adriaan † | 1963 | 3 |
Martens Gaston † | 1958 | 2 |
Masereel Frans † | 1961 | 1 |
Minnaert Marcel † | 1970 | 7 |
Minne Joris | 1958 | |
Minne Joris | 1967 | 1 |
Minne Richard † | 1962 | 1 |
Moens Wies | 1975 | 12 |
Mussche Achiel † | 1961 | 2 |
Naessens Maurits | 1961 | 6 |
Nees Staf † | 1959 | 2 |
Opsomer Isidoor † | 1957 | |
Paerels Willem † | 1959 | |
Peeters Flor | 1958 | 1 |
Peeters Karel C. † | 1970 | 11 |
Pelemans Willem | 1962 | 18 |
Philips Luc | 1971 | 9 |
Picard Leo † | 1963 | 17 |
Pieck Anton | 1973 | 11 |
Poels Albert | 1959 | 1 |
Pols André M. † | 1964 | |
Poot Marcel | 1972 | 17 |
Preud’homme Arm. | 1970 | 8 |
Renard Raf | 1977 | |
Rens Jef | 1969 | 6 |
Roelants Maurice † | 1959 | 2 |
Romein-Verschoor Annie † | 1974 | 11 |
Ruyslinck Ward (2) | 1975 | 12 |
Ryelandt Joseph † | 1959 | 10 |
Sabbe Etienne † | 1968 | |
Saverys Albert † | 1958 | 1 |
Schillebeeckx Edward (2) | 1976 | 13 |
Schmidt Annie M.G. (2) | 1974 | 11 |
Schmook Ger | 1963 | 18 |
Segers Paul W. | 1966 | 17 |
Servaes Albert † | 1966 | 3 |
Servranckx Victor † | 1961 | 5 |
Seuphor Michel | 1965 | 4 |
Slabbinck Rik | 1971 | 10 |
Stynen Léon | 1972 | 18 |
Stracke E.P. Desiderius † | 1966 | 4 |
Struye Paul † | 1971 | 8 |
Stuiveling Garmt (2) | 1970 | 8 |
Suenens Leo | 1970 | 8 |
Termote Albert † | 1970 | |
Terruwe Anna A.A. | 1972 | 10 |
Thiel Urbain † | 1967 | |
Thuysbaert Prosper † | 1962 | |
Tinbergen Jan | 1976 | 13 |
Torfs Jos | 1978 | |
Vaerten Jan † | 1974 | 12 |
Van Acker Achiel † | 1964 | 3 |
Van Aken Piet (2) | 1978 | 15 |
Vanaudenhove Omer | 1977 | 14 |
Vanbeselaere Walth. | 1970 | 18 |
Van Cauwelaert Emiel | 1976 | 17 |
Van Cauwelaert Frans † | 1960 | 2 |
Vandekerckhove Michiel | 1973 | 18 |
Van den Abeele Hugo † | 1967 | |
Vandendriessche Ern. | 1969 | |
Vandeputte Robert | 1971 | 16 |
Van der Essen Leo † | 1960 | |
(Van der Goes Hugo) | 1968 | |
Vanderlick Armand | 1969 | 7 |
Van der Meer Frits | 1973 | 11 |
Van der Meer de Walcheren Pieter † | 1966 | 4 |
Vandermeulen Lambertus † | 1974 | 12 |
Van der Mueren Floris † | 1960 | |
Van der Plaetse Antoon † | 1968 | |
Vanderpoorten Herman | 1978 | 15 |
Vandersteen Willy | 1976 | 13 |
Van de Velde Anton | 1964 | |
Van de Voorde Urbain † | 1964 | 7 |
Van Duinkerken Anton † | 1960 | 1 |
Van Eynde Jos | 1975 | 14 |
Van Hemeldonck Em. † | 1958 | 1 |
Van Hool Bernard † | 1970 | |
Van Hulse Camil | 1967 | |
Van Isacker Karel | 1977 | 14 |
Van Istendael August | 1975 | 16 |
Van Oorschot Geert (2) | 1977 | |
Van Overstraeten Jozef | 1966 | 5 |
Van Overstraeten War | 1960 | 10 |
Van Oye Paul † | 1965 | |
Van Reeth Flor † | 1959 | 14 |
Vansina Dirk † | 1965 | 4 |
Van Straaten Werenfried | 1972 | 12 |
Van Vlaenderen Michel † | 1964 | 3 |
Van Waeyenbergh Honoré † | 1961 | 2 |
Van Werveke Hans † | 1969 | 6 |
Van Wilderode Anton | 1976 | 14 |
Vercammen Jan | 1973 | 11 |
Veremans Renaat † | 1959 | 2 |
(Verlooy Jan Baptist) | 1973 | |
Victor René | 1964 | 17 |
Vinck Joseph † | 1970 | 18 |
Vranckx Alfons † | 1973 | 16 |
Walschap Gerard | 1957 | 1 |
Wasserman Ida † | 1968 | 6 |
Westerlinck Albert | – | 15 |
Wijnants Ernest † | 1960 | |
Wildiers Max | 1969 | 7 |
Yoors Eugène † | 1959 | 1 |
The episodes can be viewed in the VRT archive.
Belga Sport is a Flemish documentary television series depicting turning points in Belgian sports history. The program, made by Woestijnvis and shown on the Flemish public broadcaster Canvas, digs up fragments from the VRT sports archives and sheds new light on “known” facts through testimonies. The subtitle therefore reads Old sports stories in a new light. The first series was broadcast in the spring of 2007. A new series was recently released in 2024. In June 2008, Belga Sport was awarded the Prize of Television Criticism. And in early 2011, the program received a nomination from the Flemish Television Stars in the category “Best Information Program.
There is also a podcast with the creators of Belga Sport. Which can be found here.
Other seasons can be found in the VRT archives
Title: Belpop: de eerste vijftig jaar
Author: Jan Delvaux
Publisher: Borgerhoff & Lamberigts, Ghent, 2011
ISBN: 9789089312495
Belpop is a TV program about the Belgian pop scene on Canvas. It refers to belpop, a collective term for music by Belgian groups. Since 2008, each episode deals with one artist, sometimes several artists get the floor. They talk about the past of belpop. Between 2008 and 2020, Luc Janssen did the interviews and voice-over. As of 2023, Bent van Looy took over this task. Also see a review of this last season here.
Jan Delvaux, contributor to the program, also published a book in 2011 entitled Belpop: de eerste vijftig jaar, in which he describes the history of Belgian pop music, from Kili Watch of The Cousins to the present.
Also see the following video on belgian music history: Belpop Bonanza #1000 – Een duik in 40 jaar AB geschiedenis
The cultural heritage of design does not consist only of sketches, models, photographs or correspondence of designers. With design, there is also a strong interaction between explicit knowledge and tacit knowledge, knowledge that may be passed on but which usually does not receive written expression. That is why the Flemish Architecture Institute conducted interviews with designers, policy makers and craftspeople. As a result, the interviews do not all cover the same topics and time periods. A mix of young and old and of profession was chosen; furniture maker, artist, design connoisseur and director of Design Flanders all have their say.
The following people were interviewed:
Leonce Dekeijser (1924-2015), interior architect, he explains that in his college days, “interior design” did not actually exist. He took courses with architects and decorative arts and eventually earned a degree in furniture art. He discusses the teaching methods, the subjects and his teachers. He talks about the interaction between design and education
José Vanderlinden (1920-?), furniture maker, the emphasis in the conversation with José Vanderlinden is, much more than in the conversation with Leonce Dekeijser, on the technical aspects of furniture making.
The four interviewers were art historians and artists: Katarina Serulu, Marieke Pauwels, Eva Van Regenmortel and Aletta Rambaut
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The 1956 Hungarian refugee flow illustrates how the international community can quickly resolve a humanitarian crisis. The first asylum countries did not bear the brunt of their humanitarian response to the massive request for protection from the many Hungarians.
The 1956 Hungarian flow of refugees illustrates how the international community can quickly resolve a humanitarian crisis. The first asylum countries did not bear the brunt of their humanitarian response to the massive request for protection from the many Hungarians.
The 1956 refugee crisis also shows how broad support for refugee protection can facilitate inclusion.
Students from the Vakgroep Nieuwste Tijden at Ghent University conducted oral history interviews with 16 Hungarian refugees who came to Belgium in 1956.
In addition to the full transcripts, 10-minute summaries are available.
In the year that Sint-Niklaas celebrates its 800th anniversary, the socialist movement in the Wase capital reveals its history, with the expo ‘Het Grote Rode Verhaal’ at the Volkshuis and gets a permanent place in the Art Deco building. There is not only an expo.
The socialist movement also mapped out a walk along the most prominent places in Sint-Niklaas where the socialist story was written. Among others, it runs through the Tabaksstraat, where many workers used to work in the cigar factories, past the former Bond Moyson in Mercatorstraat, the former cooperative shop in Truweelstraat to the Volkshuis.
The project is an initiative of ABW-Waasland. It was realised in cooperation with the AMSAB and financially supported by ABW, SP and Bond Moyson of Waasland.
A first publication resulted from it in 1996, edited by Geert Van Goethem (AMSAB-Antwerp), with the title Vaandels ruisen, vuisten groeten. The work dealt mainly with the founding period of the socialist movement in Sint-Niklaas, from around 1895 until the outbreak of
the Second World War. The period after the war was covered only briefly.
A second phase was therefore launched in July 1997. The publication Banners murmur, Fists salute.
Volume II covers the period 1945-1975. A brief chapter was also devoted to the occupation
and liberation (which, who knows, might later turn into a third publication). The format of this second volume has become somewhat broader. This time, not only the town of Sint-Niklaas but the whole district is scrutinised, entirely in line with the evolution that the socialist movement in the Waasland region underwent during this period. The trade union as well as the party and the sick association are covered. A chapter is also devoted to the women’s movement.
Migration is of all times. Time and again, people have said goodbye to their native land for various reasons, facing a sometimes very uncertain future. It takes courage to leave everything familiar behind and build a new existence on unfamiliar ground. The ‘Destined for Ghent’ project aims to record stories, rituals and traditions of people with a migration background and make them accessible to a wide audience. In all these stories, the focus is on life in the city of Ghent, on the strength and courage needed for a new beginning in a foreign environment.
‘Destined for Ghent’ aims to give migrants’ heritage a place within the growing focus on heritage in general and hopes to encourage migrants of different origins to record (or have recorded) memories of their personal migration stories.
The stories will be collected by ‘trackers’, volunteers who themselves have a migration history. The trackers are offered hands-on training that introduces them to the world of oral history. Armed with this knowledge, they go in search of witnesses to interview.
More than 50 trackers have now successfully completed the training. The first 27 interviews have been delivered. Trackers and witnesses together represent 32 of Ghent’s 159 nationalities.
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‘Destined for Ghent ‘ showed the results of the project to the public in various ways. The five duo-photos of trackers and witnesses on Heritage Day kicked off the project. A book, a multimedia application in STAM, an exhibition and numerous other forms of presentation will follow at a later stage.
‘Destined for Ghent’ is a project of AGORA, a Ghent partnership between the city council, various welfare organisations and national associations of migrants. The Integration Service is doing the coordination. Ghent University, STAM (City Museum), Amsab-ISG (Institute of Social History) and FARO (Flemish Cultural Heritage Support Centre) guarantee the scientific input in the project.
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Bread was the chief component of the workers’ meal, so a good choice to sell in a cooperative. Everyone who was a member of the cooperative could share in the profits, and every worker naturally bought his bread from the cooperative. In the beginning, the activity remained modest, but once the bread was delivered to homes and the distributed profits increased, the cooperative began to grow.
The bakery, which combined advantageous prices with good quality, became a great success. The registration fee was 25 centimes and buyers undertook to buy all their bread from the cooperative. A 6% discount in the form of purchase vouchers and reinvestment of part of the profits quickly made Vooruit grow into a complex organisation with all kinds of activities. People’s pharmacies and shops selling groceries, coal, garments and shoes appeared. By 1901, the company had grown from one bakery with 150 members to several bakeries, twenty outhouses and more than seven thousand members! On the Garenmarkt (now the Anseeleplein), an old factory was bought in which a bakery, as well as a shop, a coffee house and a meeting room were opened. The first Vlaamse Volkshuis was born.
These interviews were conducted as part of the Interview Project entitled “Red or no bread. A practicum in the subject methodology of the Newest Times partim Oral History in the second candidature of History (second Bachelor of History), academic years 1998-1999 (teacher: Professor Dr Bruno De Wever).
Op zoek … De evolutie van het vrijzinnig humanisme in Vlaanderen sinds de Tweede Wereldoorlog
Gily Coene, Jimmy Koppen, Frank Scheelings (red.)
Uitgeverij ASP/VUBPRESS, 2018
ISBN: 978 90 5718 7094
(voorkant: linosnede Gerard Gaudaen)
What made someone a liberal humanist? Why did someone commit to a particular cause? What form did the commitment take? And how did family, social, professional and regional backgrounds play a significance in the life of the liberal humanist? As part of the project ‘A Liberal Humanist Cultural Heritage Forum for Flanders’, CAVA approached numerous committed liberal humanists with these questions. Because witnesses are also forgetting and/or disappearing. Moreover, there is a glaring lack of sources on this chapter in the history of Flanders and Brussels. These memories and stories therefore provide a wealth of information not readily available in written sources. They constitute important testimonies about the breakthrough of liberal humanist thought in Flanders and Brussels and are part of the oral heritage of liberal humanism.
CAVA therefore organised several storytelling evenings, during which a panel of liberal humanists from the region reminisced. The audience did not leave out either. An audio recording was made of each talk. At the bottom of this page you will find an overview of the various storytelling evenings.
Moreover, the stories and testimonies of the story evenings were supplemented by interviews of liberal figures.
The liberal storytelling evenings took place with the support of the Flemish Government, deMens.nu, Uitstraling Permanente Vorming (VUB) and the Humanistisch Vrijzinnige Vereniging.
Op zoek … De evolutie van het vrijzinnig humanisme in Vlaanderen sinds de Tweede Wereldoorlog
Gily Coene, Jimmy Koppen, Frank Scheelings (red.)
Publisher ASP/VUBPRESS, 2018
ISBN: 978 90 5718 7094
(Front cover: linocut Gerard Gaudaen)
Following Heritage Day 2017, which was dedicated to “Care”, several interviews were conducted with volunteers and pioneers of liberal-humanist care. A number of excerpts were selected from each interview, which together form the audio bar ‘Pioneers of liberal-humanist care’. As the full interviews contain a wealth of information, we don’t want to withhold them from you. Via the links below, you can listen to or read the interviews and learn more about the pioneers of liberal-humanist care and the course they took.