For eight years, Peter Aalders, Henk Boer and Roelof Koopman tell Hoogeveen and the surrounding area what happens. On Thursday they crawl behind the camera again. This time, historian Albert Metselaar is allowed to join their program ‘Koopman Op Pad’ to tell in the eighty years of freedom in Hoogeveen.
Two seats are ready for a green screen in the Hoogeveen library. Three cameras and four light boxes are ready. Peter, Henk and Roelof are looking forward to it again. The recordings go with a joke and a Grol, but when the cameras enter, the serious work has started.
The idea came about years ago. Peter Aalders was busy with his camera while Roelof Koopman entered and wanted to recruit voices for the political party he was a member of. In the end, Koopman walked away after he told Aalders’ camera. It was a success, says Aalders. The seed was planted and the men later set out together to pick up stories from the area.
They don’t really go out on the street often anymore. “We used to do nothing else,” says Aalders. It is all a bit more difficult now, but the gentlemen have found something on that: a room in the Hoogeveen library.
But it is nice to do, says Henk Boer who later also hooked up. “The three sizes you have around you. Looking for topics. I was postman for a while, then you sometimes heard things. Then I called Peter or Roelof from I have something again. Then Peter more often approached the people who wanted to come. Of course that is the most beautiful.
They pay for it with sponsoring, because in total they need a lot of equipment to absorb everything. But they do it for the many beautiful stories from the area Hoogeveen, they say. How long they will continue with it? “Until we fall over, I think?!”