DutchBuzz is an English radio programme of news, views and interviews that tells you what’s happening in this buzzing city of ours. The international team of presenters and reporters are from many different continents, but view The Hague as their home!
Listen live weekly on a Thursday from 7-8pm on Den Haag FM:
After broadcasts, links to the recordings will be shared here.
Thursday 3 September 2026
Dutchbuzz is back after the summer break with news about: • What’s happening in The Hague • A new wine tasting venue on the Prinsesstraat • And, local author Michael Hasted tells us about opening an English book shop in the south of France.
In this week’s Dutchbuzz: • We take a look at the renovated boulevard in Scheveningen • Visit the ‘London Calling’ exhibition at the Kunstmuseum, • And feature local writing talent
Headlines and recording link will be added here when available
Thursday 24 September 2026
Headlines and recording link will be added here when available
The Hague’s Pearls – listen to previous recordings
The podcasts below are devoted to members of the international community who have made a special contribution to the City of The Hague.
The DutchBuzz team takes pleasure in inviting and interviewing the city’s many ‘pearls’. Many of them have been featured in our programmes over the years because they reflect our rich and diverse international community.
Newsmakers, writers, local politicians, entertainers, innovators, entrepreneurs, experts in their field, and colourful personalities, they all make The Hague a better place to live and work in.
All the interviews have been broadcast, but we enjoyed them so much that we are now sharing them with you as special, celebratory podcasts.
During the season opening of the radio program ‘Haagse Helden’ on Monday, August 31, registration for the 2026 Hague Volunteer Awards opened. Presenter Jeanne van Rutten and Alderman Kavish Partiman for Housing, Integration, and Volunteers jointly gave the official start signal. Volunteers, volunteer teams, and volunteer organizations can be registered up to and including Wednesday, September 30, 2026, via denhaag.nl/vrijwilligersprijzen .
On the right track
The Municipality of The Hague presents the Hague Volunteer Awards every year to highlight and appreciate volunteer work in the city. The awards consist of monetary prizes and the honor. This year, the theme of the Hague Volunteer Awards ceremony is ‘On the Right Track’. After all, it is only thanks to the efforts of some 185,000 volunteers in The Hague that The Hague stays on course. The theme therefore forms the common thread of the festive award ceremony at the Remise Den Haag on November 21, 2026.
Alderman Partiman: “Volunteers make The Hague stronger. Throughout the city, people selflessly dedicate themselves to their neighborhood, an association, or to residents who could use a helping hand. In doing so, they foster connection and make our city closer. Their commitment is invaluable and deserves our appreciation. At the same time, The Hague is growing, and many volunteers are getting older. That is why it is important that new people also take the step towards volunteering, so that together we can continue to build strong communities in which people look out for one another.”
Register volunteers and organizations
Anyone can nominate a volunteer, a volunteer team, or an organization for a The Hague Volunteer Award. The awards are presented in the following seven categories:
Care and Welfare
Art and Culture
Neighborhood and Surroundings
Development and Youth
Animals and Nature
Volunteer organization
Volunteer team
An independent jury assesses all applications in October.
Appreciation for volunteers in The Hague
Around the presentation of the Hague Volunteer Awards, the municipality is organizing various activities for volunteers in November. In doing so, The Hague underscores the importance of volunteer work and thanks all volunteers for their dedication.
Heroes of The Hague
The Dutch language radio program Haagse Helden has been a partner of the Hague Volunteer Awards for many years. This year, too, the radio program is dedicating attention to the nominees. In the weeks leading up to the award ceremony, various contenders will be guests on the show. Furthermore, on November 21 at the Remise Den Haag, radio presenter Jeanne van Rutten will personally present one of the awards, as will Alderman Partiman.
ON THE EVE OF PRINSJESDAG, MUSIC TAKES OVER THE HAGUE CITY CENTRE
On the evening before Prinsjesdag, the political capital transforms into a free music festival that ends with a late-night ode to democracy. On Monday evening, 14 September, The Hague will once again be all about PrinsjesNach for the fourth year in a row, a free musical pub crawl. With more than 35 acts across 30 locations, the full line-up has now been announced.
Indie pop in a traditional brown café, classical music in a bicycle parking facility and jazz from under an awning: during PrinsjesNach, musical The Hague comes to life. In addition to intimate concerts at some of the city’s best hospitality venues, this year there will also be talent workshops, themed routes, a NachMis and an extensive children’s programme one day later.
Sarah de Bruijn, co-organiser of PrinsjesNach, says: “With more acts than ever, PrinsjesNach remains an intimate and surprising festival with an overwhelmingly broad programme. On dozens of small stages from Noordeinde to Bierkade, both established names and emerging talent will make their music heard.”
New this year
For the first time this year, PrinsjesNach will end with a late-night ‘ode to democracy’: the NachMis.
Henk & Melle, normally a duo and known from Hallo Venray and Smutfish, will perform with a full band especially for the occasion, accompanied by spoken word from Scott Beekhuizen (Prins S en de Geit) and Laurin Nargy (Poezieboys).
Also new are talent workshops for young brass musicians and singer-songwriters. The young brass band The Legendairs and seasoned musician Arno Bakker, percussion specialist Miguel Varela (La Máquina) and renowned trumpeter Michael Varekamp will work together on a presentation in which jazz, brass band and Caribbean music spectacularly come together.
In addition, in collaboration with Songwriter Sunday, a special open mic programme will take place for emerging singer-songwriters. Guus van der Steen (Kern Koppen) and Ferdinand van Duuren (French Kiss) will prepare eight new singer-songwriters from The Hague for their debut performances at Kunstbar during PrinsjesNach.
Bicycle parking concert
PrinsjesNach starts as soon as you park your bicycle. For one evening, the bicycle parking facility in Nobelstraat will become an unexpected stage, with several performances taking place at the beginning and end of the evening.
If you are already in the city earlier, join the Haagse Beat Tour at 16:00 and discover The Hague as the city where legendary bands such as Golden Earring and Goldband have their musical roots. Or get into the mood at Den Haag Centraal station, where the first sounds of PrinsjesNach will already be heard from 17:00.
Themed routes
Also new this year are several themed routes, allowing visitors to explore their favourite styles of music.
Sarah de Bruijn: “With such a full line-up, it is of course difficult to choose between all the acts. That is why we have created themed routes such as Female Voices, World Sounds, Jazz and New Talent. This makes it easy to go on a musical journey of discovery throughout the evening.”
Children’s programme
PrinsjesNach continues for the youngest visitors one day later at Zuiderparktheater, in collaboration with PrinsjesNach, Zuiderparktheater and De Betovering.
From 10:00 on Prinsjesdag, a special children’s programme will take place there. The programme includes Kleine Louis, a swinging musical story about the origins of jazz, jazz legend Louis Armstrong and, above all, finding the inspiration to choose your own path.
The Hague band Meyendel will also perform their tender songs for the youngest audience, interspersed with some of the most beautiful stories by Toon Tellegen.
Practical information
PrinsjesNach takes place on Monday 14 September from 19:00 and is free to attend at 30 locations across The Hague city centre. The festival concludes at 23:30 with the NachMis.
Anyone who wants to get into the mood in advance can listen to the PrinsjesNach playlist on Spotify, featuring music from part of this year’s line-up. Or install the Jamr app, where the full line-up and timetable will appear in the coming days.
Full line-up
Amber Rosa Lynn, Benito, De Kraaien, Duo Durville, French Kiss, Gerardo Rosales, Gillespiana, Goodnight Irene, Haagse Beat Tour, Hero’s Journey: Oudyssey, Isabella Lavanga, Jabuticaba, Jam de La Creme PrinsjesNach Jamsessie, Lidy Blijdorp & Ketevan Roinishvili, Lily Clarissa, LUYI & Imanol Emede, Mamey, Mandalamarra, Manja, Miles O’Brien, Mulatu Listening Bar, NachMis, NANO, Notes, Beats & Bars met BF, Open mic-programma Songwriter Sunday, Roos van Herrewegen, Satyakam Mokhamsing, Sealovers, Tante Koor, The COOPER & FOREST POOKY Experience, The Kiffs, Brassband The Legendairs, The Velcro, Tobias, Tripkip, VOS, Writers Unlimited, Yaëll Campbell, Zippora.
Themed routes
Female Voices: Discover Amber Rosa Lynn, Zippora, Isabella Lavanga, Tante Koor and Lily Clarissa, and attend the Writers Unlimited talk Women (Re)write History, with musical accompaniment.
World Sounds: Travel around the world with the Eastern sounds of Satyakam Mohkamsing, be carried away by Hero’s Journey: Oudyssey by Iranian multi-instrumentalist Sepand Dadbeh, the distinctive Italian folk rock of Mandalamarra and Brazilian sounds from Gerardo Rosales and Jabuticaba.
Jazz: For true jazz lovers, the programme features LUYI & Imanol Emede, Isabella Lavanga and Gillespiana by The Hague jazz icons Michael Varekamp and Ben van den Dungen.
New Talent: Want to discover new talent from The Hague? Listen to The Kiffs, The Velcro, Yaëll Campbell, Mamey and NANO. Or immerse yourself in Dutch-language songs by VOS, Manja, Benito and others.
Join us at The Social Hub to hear a regenerative talk by our speaker Akash Kumar, who is a regenerative designer, researcher and an educator working with textiles, craft, folklore and storytelling.
Growing up in a farming family in Jharkhand, India, he developed a deep connection with land, natural materials and the knowledge hidden in the things we create and pass on through generations. In his hands-on projects and workshops, he links traditional knowledge to contemporary life, exploring how making can become a tool for collective learning, ecological care and regeneration.
This talk could not be more timely, as Akash and his work offers a perspective on current global concerns surrounding our environment and the planet we cohabit. He invites us to consider how the ways we make and create can contribute to ecological regeneration. We hope to see you there!
Children will train, run and race together — with and without a running frame
What happens when a child who runs independently and a child who uses a running frame are placed on the same team? They can train together, race together and, above all, experience the joy of belonging together.
This September, a new inclusive athletics initiative is coming to The Hague. Stichting Equal Play and Haag Atletiek are joining forces to create a team where children with and without disabilities can train side by side. The programme will focus on running and relay races, bringing together children who use a running frame and children who do not.
The initiative will be introduced to the public during the Stadsspelen Den Haag on Saturday 19 September, where Stichting Equal Play will host an inclusive athletics workshop. The regular training programme will take place on Saturdays from 10:00 to 11:00 at Haag Atletiek, with children training together as one team.
The aim is simple, but powerful: more opportunities for children to meet, move and make friends through sport — regardless of how they run.
The need for more inclusive spaces is clear. Research published by Dutch charity Stichting het Gehandicapte Kind found that 72% of children without disabilities never arrange to meet or play with a child with a disability, even though 45% say they would like to do so. The same research found that more than one in three children with a disability never visit a playground or meeting place in their own neighbourhood, and more than a quarter of those who do are often there alone.
Sport can be one of the places where those barriers begin to disappear.
Rather than creating separate activities and expecting children to participate in parallel worlds, the new athletics team is built around training together. A relay race is a particularly fitting example: every participant has a role, every participant contributes to the team and everyone moves towards the same finish line.
For some children, a running frame can make running and participation possible. For others, no frame is needed. At Haag Atletiek, those differences will not determine whether children belong to the same team. The intention is for them to train alongside one another, encourage one another and take part together.
The programme is designed for children aged 6 to 12, with and without disabilities. Children can try the training in an inclusive and supportive environment, with the focus not only on athletics, but also on fun, confidence, connection and friendship.
For Stichting Equal Play, that social element is just as important as the sport itself. Inclusive sport is not simply about adapting an activity so that someone can be present. It is about creating genuine opportunities for children to participate together — and to get to know one another as teammates and peers.
The launch also comes at a moment when inclusive relay racing is gaining wider visibility. In the Netherlands, relay formats are increasingly showing what is possible when athletes with and without a running frame compete and participate together. The new initiative at Haag Atletiek brings that same idea closer to home for children in The Hague.
Families will be able to discover the initiative during the Stadsspelen Den Haag workshop on 19 September. The regular Saturday training sessions will offer a continuing opportunity for children to develop their running skills, practise relay racing and become part of an inclusive team.
For many families, finding a local sports activity where children with different abilities can genuinely participate together can be difficult. This new collaboration aims to offer exactly that: a place where children do not have to fit into a separate category before they can join in.
The message behind the initiative is straightforward: different ways of moving should not mean separate worlds.
Children and families interested in taking part can register through equalplay.nl/aanmelden.
The new inclusive athletics programme is a collaboration between Stichting Equal Play and Haag Atletiek and will be introduced at the Stadsspelen Den Haag on Saturday 19 September, before continuing with regular Saturday morning training sessions.
Because sometimes inclusion does not need a complicated explanation. Sometimes it can start with something as simple — and as meaningful — as handing the baton to a teammate.
Practical information
Workshop: Saturday 19 September 2026, Stadsspelen Den Haag
Regular training: Saturdays, 10:00–11:00
Location: Haag Atletiek, Laan van Poot 353A, 2566 DA The Hague
Age: 6–12 years
For children with and without disabilities, with and without a running frame
