Radio Show: The Ailing Czech education system may get a facelift

Network Europe - 3 September 2010: Where are all the students? - The Ailing Czech education system may get a facelift. Hearing the Irish - The EU backs down over data sharing after Ireland objects.

Radio Show: The King's 24 Strings, Sacred Songs and the Hemsch

EARLY MUSIC It's the height of the Early Music Festival in Utrecht. A feast of French Baroque music!

Article: Van Gogh’s “Bedroom” cleaned up again

With precision instruments and painstaking patience, Amsterdam’s Van Gogh Museum has completed a six-month cleaning and restoration of The Bedroom by Vincent van Gogh. The Bedroom is once again clean and fresh. 

Article: Press Review Friday 3 September 2010

Video: The electro boathouse

Jos Tio charges his electric rental boats 1400 times a year with his own home-produced "green" energy.

Radio Show: Chiwoniso from Zimbabwe and Atongo Zimba from Ghana

HEAR THE WORLD (repeat)   A performance by the Zimbabwean singer Chiwoniso and her band Culture Vibe. Chiwoniso accompanies her songs with the thumb piano.

Radio Show: EU missing at Middle East peace talks

Network Europe - 2 September 2010: With or without her - Middle East Peace talks go ahead but where's the EU? Bad memories? A row erupts in Germany over comments about Muslims and Jews

Article: South Africa trade unions fight inequalities

Massive strikes in South Africa’s private and public sectors looked set to continue on Thursday after the latest pay offer by the government was rejected by the country’s main trade unions.

Radio Show: Eating insects

This week on Earth Beat, we've dug out a treat from our archives. The programme, first broadcast in March, looks at bugs as food, from munching on mealworms to lunching on locusts.

Radio Show: What's on this week? - The latest RNW programme schedule

Programme schedule for 2 September 2010 - 10 September 2010.