Hanneke de Jonge will be the new voice of the NOS radio program With an eye to tomorrow. This was announced on Saturday evening during a special broadcast. The journalist and voice-over succeeds Hans Hogendoorn, who retired as the voice of the NPO Radio 1 program in January after 48 years and almost 17,000 broadcasts.
In an initial response, De Jonge indicated that he was “extremely honoured”. “You get your vote, that is something very personal. If you can share it with the world, that is something very beautiful.” With an eye to tomorrow has been broadcast daily at 11 p.m. since 1976 at midnight and looks back on the past day and looks ahead to the day ahead.
The choice came about after a search that the NPO launched through a public competition, in which anyone could submit a recording. From the 7,000 recordings submitted, a shortlist was drawn up with eleven possible new voices. Thekla Reuten, Jacqueline Blom and Gijs Scholten van Aschat, among others, were on the list of possible contenders.
A specially composed professional jury led by presenter and newsreader Rob Trip ultimately chose De Jonge. Trip previously said to want to search towards “an own sound”. “It shouldn’t be a copy of Hans. (…) The new voice must match the time, pace and tone of the program equally well.”