Out and about with Arnout Hauben, the ratings king of the Low Countries: “The golden tip? freezer bags”

His latest issue, ‘Dwars door de Lage Landen’, gets more than a million viewers every week in both Flanders and the Netherlands, so Arnout Hauben (46) can call himself the uncrowned viewing figure king of the Low Countries without any embarrassment. We spent a day during the filming of the travel program and asked him about the tricks to extract a personal story from every passer-by. “The gold often comes up when we think we’re done filming.”

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