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3 unusual facts about Eén


Arba'een

Arba'een is consistently among the largest peaceful gatherings in history.

Belgian media

In Flanders, VRT channels (Eén, Canvas and Ketnet/OP12) had a combined market share of 42.0% in 2012, VMMa channels (VTM, 2BE, Vitaya and vtmKzoom) 28.8%, SBS Belgium channels (VIER and VIJF) 10.5% and Concentra (Acht) 0,5%.

Pustra/Vile-een's Vaudeville

Recently Mr Pustra collaborated with The Irrepressibles on the musical score for a new film by Shelly Love, due out in 2014 and walked in London Fashion Week for designer, Ziad Ghanem.


A Day at the Beach

A Day at the Beach is a 1970 film based on the 1962 book Een dagje naar het strand by Dutch author Heere Heeresma.

Akhundzada Saif-ur-Rahman Mubarak

Shah Rasool Taloqani being old and weak, had instructed his Salikeen to remain in the company of his favourite murid, Maulana Muhammad Hashim Samangani, after his departure.

American Public Television

APT began in 1961 as the Eastern Educational Television Network (EEN); EEN was one of the first distributors of shows such as The French Chef (with Julia Child), Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, and Washington Week in Review on a national basis.

Brahim Attaeb

The program broadcast on Eén Belgian Flemish station is an adaptation of a series of shows by Moroccan-Dutch artist Ali B on TROS entitled Ali B op volle toeren.

Cees Nooteboom

Some of his travel books include Een middag in Bruay, Een nacht in Tunesië, and De omweg naar Santiago (Roads to Santiago, 1997); this book inspired the musical work "Six Glosses" (2010) by Spanish composer Benet Casablancas.

Congo: A History

Congo: A History (original Dutch title: Congo. Een geschiedenis) is a 672 pages non-fiction book by David Van Reybrouck, first published in 2010.

Een Ander Joods Geluid

A book was published in 2003, called Een ander Joods geluid - Kritische opvattingen over Israël (A different Jewish voice - Critical opinions on Israel), written by numerous prominent Jewish Dutch, including Hedy d'Ancona, Milo Anstadt, Dieuwertje Blok, Hajo Meyer and Harry de Winter.

Ein bißchen Frieden

The song has since been rendered in English as "A Little Peace" recorded by Daniel O'Donnell for his 1997 album I Believe, and in Dutch as "Een Beetje Vrede" recorded by Kathleen Aerts for her 2009 album In Symfonie.

Femke Verschueren

Femke went to represent Belgium at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2011 in Yerevan, Armenia with the song "Een Kusje Meer" (One more kiss), placing 7th with a score of 64 points, receiving 12 points from the Netherlands.

Ferdinand Bordewijk

It is comparable to Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, which appeared one year later and which Bordewijk deemed to be junk ("een enorme prul").

Fritz Korbach

In a 1991 interview, Korbach racially abused black players Bryan Roy ("een kleine rotneger", "a short damn negro") and Romário ("die koffieboon van PSV", "that coffee bean of PSV").

Imme Dros

From the 90s on she made the classic works of Homer and other Greek mythology stories into new forms.One of those books about a character from Greek Mythology is Odysseus : een man van verhalen, this book describes how Odysseus tries to get back home after the Trojan War.

Karel van Wolferen

In 2005, together with NRC Handelsblad reporter Jan Sampiemon, Van Wolferen wrote Een keerpunt in de vaderlandse geschiedenis (Dutch: "A turning point in the history of the fatherland").

Ludovicus Episcopius

#Susanna heur baeiende in een fontein (after Susanne un jour from composer Didier Lupi Second)

Marianne Thieme

Marianne Thieme always concludes her speeches in Parliament with the phrase "Voorts zijn wij van mening dat er een einde moet komen aan de bio-industrie." ("Furthermore we are of the opinion that factory farming has to be ended."), referring to Cato the Elder's famous conclusion of his speeches with Carthago delenda est.

PearsonWidrig DanceTheater

They have also collaborated with composers on work which included music created and performed live by Robert Een, Andy Teirstein, Philip Hamilton, Carman Moore, and Carter Burwell, who created "one of the finest scores for modern dance" (Back Stage) for "The Return of Lot’s Wife".

Rachel Traets

In October 2011 she won Junior Songfestival 2011 with the song "Ik ben een Teenager" (English: "I'm a Teenager").

The Generation Gap

Despite its title, The Generation Game (which originally ran in the United Kingdom from 1971-1981 and hosted by Bruce Forsyth) was based on a 1969 Dutch show entitled Een van de acht ("One of the Eight"), which in turn used a stunt-based format much like that of Beat the Clock and Truth or Consequences.

Wim Henderickx

Een Totale Entführung was a music theatre production made in cooperation with Ramsey Nasr and based on Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Serail.

Zing voor me

"Zing voor me" meaning 'sing for me' in Dutch (also known as Zing een liedje voor me (Frans) meaning Sing a song for me Frans) is a Dutch language 2010 single by Lange Frans and Thé Lau.


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