In the 43rd episode of culture podcast Hooggeeered Publiek of the Leeuwarder Courant and Dagblad van het Noorden, presenters Joep van Ruiten and Kirsten van Santen take their listeners on a journey to a place where the imagination rules.
They talk to artistic director Sabine Pater about the Terschellinger Oerol Festival that will start on Friday. She explains why the program is smaller this year, about the ecological footprint of the festival and the still predominantly white festival audience. At Oerol you are ‘blown and happy’, according to Pater.
Especially for Hooggeeerd Publiek, actress Eva Meijering climbs a dune top where she does have telephone coverage and reveals why she was ‘squashed’ in a dune pan as an actress; an audio preview of the magically realistic journey she takes in the Oerol performance Salt makes.
Then there’s columnist Asing Walthaus who didn’t go to Harry Styles this week, but to good old Peter Gabriel. He thought the stoneware and whistle was a well-known hit from the 73-year-old pop star. Joep focuses on witchcraft, Kirsten on a literary festival in Harlingen. And occasionally a screeching seagull flies by.