Tessel Blok
(Nederhorst den Berg, 1958) has been working with VPRO for twenty-five years. In that time she has gained wide experience in the production and presentation of both radio and tv programmes. She was involved in Welingelichte kringen (Well-informed circles), Ischa, Het Gebouw, De Ochtenden, Noorderlicht and the political tv programme Het Buitenhof. Tessel Blok is Dieuwertje Blok’s younger sister. The two sisters were brought up on a love for the trade as their mother Henny Fontaine was editor with KRO, a singer and elocutionist. Their father Dick Blok was professor of medieval history and grandmother Stella Fontaine was a well-known cabaret artiste. At present Tessel Blok hosts the daily radio programme Villa VPRO on Radio I.
Past events
Imagination, our Brain and the Story of our Life
After a short introduction by professor of psychiatry Damiaan Denys on imagination and the brain Tessel Blok will interview P.F. Thomése and Damiaan Denys on how the imagination works, in reality and in literature. In Dutch.
