Joost Prinsen (1942-2025): From Erik Engerd to quiz master: how a respectable Roman boy wrote television history

A voice that seemed to come from an imaginary magic well. Dark eyes in which you could get lost. Anyone who had ever seen Joost Prinsen on stage did not forget him. He excelled as an interpreter of cabaret songs and became known for children’s programs and the quiz With the knife on the table. In the Noordhollands Dagblad his weekly column was an island of perspective for decades. This week he died of bladder cancer.

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