- Deals with Abraham Kuyper's royal ribbon affair and the squatter riots in 1980 that ended with tanks in the streets of Amsterdam.
- In 1999 it was made public that the party of former Chancellor of Germany Helmut Kohl, the CDU, had received illegal funding. Host Hans Goedkoop rhetorically asks if something like this would be possible in the Netherlands and answers by presenting the story of the royal ribbon affair of 1909. Jeroen Koch tells that an Amsterdam merchant, a Mr. Lehmann, wanted a royal ribbon, asked prime minister Abraham Kuyper, got one in 1903 and donated 11,000 "thank you" guilders to Kuyper's party ARP a year later. In 1909, this was made public, which ended Kuyper's political career. The next historic tale is not that long ago, only twenty years. It's the story of the squatter riots in Amsterdam in 1980 that ended with tanks driving through the barricades the squatters had made. Several people involved in the decision-making about how to deal with the squatters and their sympathizers after they'd already chased away a group of riot control officers tell what the considerations were in that thrilling weekend in March 1980.—Marco van Hoof <k_luifje7@hotmail.com>
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What is the broadcast (satellite or terrestrial TV) release date of Episode #1.1 (2000) in Australia?
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