Aad van den Heuvel

(Rotterdam, 1935) is a well known Dutch television maker and presentator, and alongside this he has worked for many years as an author of travel stories, columns and thrillers. He started his journalistic career as a sport reporter for the radio. Later as television journalist he made many reports in Africa, Latin America and Asia for the current affairs programme Brandpunt of the KRO. In 1967, together with Ed van Westerloo, he made the much talked about interview with president Soekarno, that went into television history titled 'I know what you are up to!' President Suharto was also interviewed by van den Heuvel. Alongside Brandpunt Aad van den Heuvel made his reputation with such television programmes as Van Speijk Show , Alles is anders show and Ook dat nog!
WIN 2004