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Random History of Belgium

Manuel Van den Eynde

This history podcast tells the story of Belgium's history, in a non-chronological order. Every two weeks, we'll cover Belgian history and take the bits and pieces we like, to entertain and i...

Random History of Belgium Podcast Guide

Listen to Random History of Belgium, a Society & Culture podcast by Manuel Van den Eynde. Stream 138 episodes in English, follow new audio stories, and play episodes online on Radio and Podcast.

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EP138 - ... for now ..

Episode 138 is probably the fianl episode of this series on the history of Belgium

00:14:50Apr 10, 2022

EP136 - Belgian social security (part 3)

EP136: In part 3 on the history of Belgian social security, we'll go over the interbellum, the two World Wars and the government organized s...

00:48:26Feb 3, 2022

EP135 - Belgian social security (part 2)

In EP 135 of the Random history of Belgium , continues the journey through the history of our social security system . We look at child labo...

00:45:54Jan 19, 2022

EP134 - Belgian social security (part 1)

In EP134 of the Random history of Belgium, we start a multi part journey, looking at the early versions of social protection, funds and char...

00:46:48Jan 17, 2022

EP133 - Hendrik Conscience

EP133 - We look at the life and work of our most renowned author Hendrik Conscience. His career and impact, the way he forged his own langua...

00:56:41Dec 6, 2021

EP132 - The Belgian Railways 1830 - 1926

EP132 - We'll take a look at first 100 years of the Belgian railways. How it got started, the economic structure, some key elements and prob...

00:43:18Aug 13, 2021

EP130 - Trappist WestVleteren

EP130 for this episode, I looked at the Trappist abbey of WestVleteren, their Cistercian religious order and their famous Trappist beers. We...

00:42:52May 24, 2021

EP129 - Black Sunday

EP129 We look at the November 1991 election day, we look at the previous governments in charge, the way they wen down. The rise of new parti...

00:49:23May 5, 2021

EP128 - Jean-Pierre Van Rossem - Moneytron

In EP128 we'll take a look at author, politician, macro-economic and "enfant terrible" of the early 1990s in Belgium: Jean-Pierre Van Rossem...

00:51:50Apr 19, 2021

EP127 - Belgians in Korea

In EP127 we'll take a quick look at the Belgian volunteer corps during the Korean war, we'll look at how Belgium got involved, who was sent...

00:45:55Mar 19, 2021

EP126 - Georges Lemaître and the universe

In EP 126 we talk about abbé , Georges Lemaître , the begin behind the expanding universe theory . We look at his life , his connection with...

00:36:48Feb 22, 2021

EP125 - The Walloon movement

EP125 is the last episode on our political institutions and movements for now, and deals with the Walloon movement, the language law of 1932...

00:52:06Jan 29, 2021

EP124 - The Flemish movement (part 3)

In Episode 124 of the Random history of Belgium we'll get into the post-war struggle of the Flemish movement, we look at the different group...

00:54:44Dec 9, 2020

EP123 - The Flemish movement (part 2)

In EP123 of the Random history of Belgium, is part 2 on the history of the Flemish movement. We explore the 1914 tot 1946 timeframe. We exam...

00:40:14Dec 1, 2020

EP122 - The Flemish movement (part 1)

In EP122 of the Random history of Belgium podcast, is part 1 of 2 on the history of the Flemish movement. We'll look at their goals, the rhe...

00:45:34Nov 25, 2020

EP121 - Telenet

In EP121 of the Random history of Belgium, we look at one of our biggest telecom providers and their origins. We'll look at the original cab...

00:46:11Nov 10, 2020

EP120 - Belgian TV - part 3

In part 3 on Belgian Television history we look at the commercial stations, the changing publisher landscape, VTM and DPG-media. #Belgium #h...

00:42:37Oct 26, 2020

EP119 - Belgian TV - part 2

Episode 119 of the Random history of Belgium continues the history of TV and telecom in Belgium. We look at the 1958 to 1996 time period, wi...

00:39:55Oct 6, 2020