Wilfred Genee has refused a performance in the Sven Kockelmann talk show. “They had asked if I wanted to get you away from the table,” he tells Thomas van Groningen.
They quickly resolved the departure of political reporter Sam Hagens at Inside today: Thomas van Groningen was recovered from the public broadcaster. For his last performance at WNL, namely in the Sven Kockelmann talk show, a joke was devised at the editors. But unfortunately Wilfred Genee did not want to cooperate.
Gourmet
Does Thomas feel more comfortable in today’s Inside or Café Kockelmann? VI, he says in the section In the corridors. “That’s because I had the feeling there … especially the last period at Kockelmann, nothing to the detriment of the program … but that is a program for the political gourmet.”
“And I like to make politics a bit simple, that if my mother looks that she knows what happened in the Lower House today.”
French lesson
Thomas felt too much a lightweight for Café Kockelmann. “I had a little feeling that I was giving French lessons to someone from France. I didn’t think that was my place. “
Wilfred Genee then reveals that the editors had approached him. “They had asked if I wanted to get you away from the table on Friday.”
Thomas surprised: “Really?”
Play
Yes, Wilfred says. However, he didn’t feel like it. “Yes, after the broadcast, but I think: I think that is a bit of a play … You did that every now and then those plays there, and that often didn’t work so well, so I thought: I’m not going to cooperate. “
Thomas: “I had liked that.”
Wilfred: “I should have picked you up in no time and that I should have grabbed and take you on your neck sheet.”
Song
Thomas thinks Wilfred should have negotiated. “Didn’t you say: I want to do it, but I want to be able to sing my song?”
Wilfred: “Oh, I could have said that yes. Stupid. Would they have done it? No.”
Thomas: “I don’t think so.”
Wilfred: “I don’t think so either.”