College Tour is a TV-show in the Netherlands, that interviews the most high-profile Dutch and international guests. Inspired by town hall meetings during United States elections, the majority of questions are asked by the audience. The show is hosted by news anchor Twan Huys, who conceived its format while working as U.S. correspondent in New York and Washington D.C. from 1999–2007.[1]

College Tour
Dutch prime minister Mark Rutte on the show in late 2011.
Created byTwan Huys
Based onTown hall meetings
StarringTwan Huys
Country of originNetherlands
Original languagesDutch or English, depending on the guest
No. of seasons9
No. of episodes100
Production
Production locationVarying
Running timeCa. 50 minutes
Production companyNTR broadcasting
Original release
NetworkNetherlands Public Broadcasting system, channel NPO 3
ReleaseDecember 4, 2007 (2007-12-04) –
2017 (2017)

Similar to Inside the Actors Studio, College Tour typically features one guest per episode, and an audience of a few hundred students — however guests can be from all walks of life, including politicians, entrepreneurs, musicians and lawyers. Foreign guests have included Bill Gates, Shimon Peres, Sting and the Dalai Lama. Dutch interviews have featured football legend Johan Cruijff, astronaut André Kuipers and formerly Dutch activist Ayaan Hirsi Ali.

Although College Tour aims to be weekly, episodes are only produced as sufficiently interesting guests can be found available. It is claimed that audience questions are not pre-screened, and there is no censorship on language used. Interviews with international celebrities are done completely in English, including the questions posed by the audience. Broadcasts feature the original sound with Dutch subtitles — there is no audio dubbing. Commercial breaks are absent.
Recording takes place in varying venues — frequently (movie) theatres, conference rooms, or sometimes a church. Occasionally the show is taken abroad to meet up with stars who are willing, but unable to visit the Netherlands. In a few cases, special venues were arranged, for instance when Da Vinci Code writer Dan Brown was interviewed in the Amsterdam Rijksmuseum, in front of famous painting The Night Watch.

Episodes

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First airdate Guest Images
2007
4 December 2007 Hans Teeuwen  
13 December 2007 Jan Jaap van der Wal
2008
10 January 2008 Joop van den Ende  
17 January 2008 Neelie Kroes
24 January 2008 Gerard Spong  
21 February 2008 Madeleine Albright
5 June 2008 Johan Cruijff  
13 November 2008 Nick Leeson
2009
24 January 2009 John Malkovich  
25 March 2009 Peter van Uhm
1 April 2009 Jesse Jackson  
22 April 2009 Rem Koolhaas
13 May 2009 Wouter Bos  
3 June 2009 Dalai Lama
10 June 2009 Princess Irene of the Netherlands  
11 October 2009 Steve Ballmer
2010
15 February 2010 Harry Mulisch  
23 March 2010 Ayaan Hirsi Ali
1 June 2010 Jan Peter Balkenende  
7 June 2010 Dries van Agt and Hans Wiegel
9 September 2010 Doutzen Kroes  
11 November 2010 Louis van Gaal
2011
11 February 2011 Bram Moszkowicz
14 February 2011 Maxime Verhagen
24 March 2011 Alain Ducasse  
31 March 2011 Linda de Mol
8 September 2011 Youp van 't Hek  
15 September 2011 Seth Meyers
19 November 2011 Richard Branson  
19 December 2011 Mark Rutte
2012
17 February 2012 Matthijs van Nieuwkerk  
24 February 2012 Rijkman Groenink
2 March 2012 John de Mol  
9 March 2012 Sting
1 June 2012 Eric Schmidt  
30 August 2012 André Kuipers
14 September 2012 Wim Anker  
21 September 2012 Desmond Tutu
28 September 2012 Janine Jansen
5 October 2012 David Sedaris  
12 October 2012 Willem Holleeder
19 October 2012 Sonja Barend  
2 November 2012 Susan Sarandon
2013
2 February 2013 Bernardo Bertolucci  
17 February 2013 Richard Gere
1 March 2013 Guus Hiddink  
8 March 2013 Whoopi Goldberg
15 March 2013 Eddie Izzard  
29 March 2013 Diederik Samsom
5 April 2013 Carice van Houten  
12 April 2013 Nigella Lawson
24 May 2013 A.F.Th. van der Heijden  
6 September 2013 Frank de Boer
13 September 2013 Armin van Buuren
20 September 2013 Frans de Waal
27 September 2013 Karin Slaughter  
4 October 2013 Shimon Peres
11 October 2013 Epke Zonderland  
18 October 2013 Robbie Williams
25 October 2013 Ruby Wax  
1 November 2013 Malala Yousafzai
2014
7 February 2014 Dan Brown  
14 February 2014 Michaela DePrince
21 February 2014 Erwin Olaf  
7 March 2014 Derk Sauer
14 March 2014 Frans Timmermans  
21 March 2014 Klaas Knot
28 March 2014 John Legend
4 April 2014 Jaap van Zweden  
29 August 2014 Arjen Robben
5 September 2014 Marlene Dumas  
12 September 2014 Jeremy Paxman
19 September 2014 Jerry Springer  
26 September 2014 Famke Janssen
3 October 2014 Afrojack  
17 October 2014 Gerrit Zalm
24 October 2014 Stromae  
31 October 2014 Johnny de Mol
6 November 2014 Thomas Piketty  
7 November 2014 Anouk
14 November 2014 Bill Gates  
25 December 2014 John Cleese
2015
20 February 2015 Ronald Koeman  
27 February 2015 Arnon Grunberg
6 March 2015 Herman Finkers  
8 March 2015 Remco Campert
13 March 2015 Lodewijk Asscher
20 March 2015 Chantal Janzen  
27 March 2015 Louis Theroux
4 September 2015 Halina Reijn  
11 September 2015 Jeroen Dijsselbloem
18 September 2015 Guus Meeuwis  
25 September 2015 Anton Corbijn
9 October 2015 Denis Mukwege  
16 October 2015 Rod Stewart
30 December 2015 Herman Finkers
2016
5 February 2016 Jane Goodall
12 February 2016 Herman van Veen
19 February 2016 Daan Roosegaarde
26 February 2016 Floortje Dessing
4 March 2016 Ahmed Aboutaleb
15 April 2016 Carl Bernstein
16 September 2016 Jochem Myjer
23 September 2016 Ai Weiwei
30 September 2016 Reed Hastings
7 October 2016 Igone de Jongh
14 October 2016 Geert Mak
21 October 2016 Khadija Arib
2017
7 April 2017 Ed Sheeran
21 April 2017 Christiane Amanpour
28 April 2017 Ben Feringa
5 May 2017 Ellen Laan
12 May 2017 Arjen Lubach
19 May 2017 Ali B
10 November 2017 Frans Lanting
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References

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  1. ^ "NTR | College Tour | Info" (in Dutch). NTR broadcasting. 2014. Archived from the original on 24 September 2014. Retrieved 20 September 2014.