graduated in 1984 at the department of New and Theoretical History at the University of Amsterdam with an undergraduate thesis and additional documentation on the image of our colonial war with Indonesia from 1940-1950 in Dutch cinema newsreels. Later she worked as a reporter with currect affairs programmes. She made several episodes for the historical programme series Na de oorlog (After the war) and De Affaire (The Affair). She is cofounder of the programme Andere tijden (Different Times) and works as a director there. Much talked-about episodes were the engagement of Princess beatrix and Prince Claus and Prince Bernhard's interference with Papua New Guinea.