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The NTR adapted 75 stories from the Bommel saga into a gigantic radio play, which was broadcast three times a day for two years. An ensemble of approximately 40 actors from the world of theatre and film play all the roles. The music for the series was specially composed by Gert Jan Blom and JB Meyers and the stories were directed alternately by directors: Chris Bajema, Catherine van Campen, Jeroen Stout and Stef Visjager. The adaptation and artistic direction of the series is in the hands of Peter te Nuyl.
(Catherine van Campen, Peter te Nuyl, Stef Visjager, Frans de Rond)
Radio play Bommel is one of the most extensive audio productions in the history of Dutch radio. Partly made possible by subsidies from the Stimuleringsfonds Nederlandse Cultural Omroepproducties and the Stichting Het Toonder Auteursrecht.
This 440-part radio play was broadcast from 5 February 2007 until 2010.
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The episodes are introduced and concluded by Hans Haffmans. Because there are few female roles in the Bommel comics, the choice was made to always have the narrator's voice be filled by a woman. The narrators often also took on a female guest role. The narrators were: Nettie Blanken, Jacqueline Blom, Jet van Boxtel, Marjon Brandsma, Catherine ten Bruggencate, Kitty Courbois, Nelly Frijda, Hanneke Groenteman, Ingrid Heinsius, Sylvia Hoeks, Karen van Holst Pellekaan, Yvonne van den Hurk, Chantal Janzen, Brigitte Kaandorp, Helen Kamperveen, Sigrid Koetse, Kim van Kooten, Lousewies van der Laan, Marianne Lange, Maike Meijer, Hadewych Minis, Roos Ouwehand, Clairy Polak, Sylvia Poorta, Gusta Teengs Gerritsen, Pamela Teves, Maartje van Weegen and Wimie Wilhelm.
additional information
Marten Toonder created the most famous daily newspaper comic strip in the Netherlands between 1947 and 1986: the Bommel saga. This so-called ‘comic novel’ is named after the main character, Olivier B. Bommel. Bommel is a bear and the stories only feature animals; all of them are of course modelled on real people. Toonder drew and wrote 177 stories about Bommel, which always develop more or less along the same plot lines. Heer Bommel, a bear who is actually a lord, who lives in an ancestral castle and for whom money is no object, repeatedly ends up in sticky situations in all the stories. His ‘young friend’ Tom Poes, a small white cat, always rescues Bommel from trouble with a trick.
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