Stichting Collectieve Propaganda van het Nederlandse Boek (CPNB)

Reading relay of the novel 'De grote zaal' (1953) by author Jacoba van Velde as part of the Nederland Leest 2010 campaign. Actress Anne-Wil Blankers starts and ends the relay. Other readers are nearly sixty residents of various care homes, including the Rosa Spierhuis in Laren, Nieuw Bleyenburg Utrecht, and Respect Zorggroep The Hague.

Reading relay of the novel 'Oeroeg' by Hella Haasse by eighty well-known and lesser-known Dutch people. Each person reads a page aloud, after which the book is passed on to the next reader. Philip Freriks, news anchor and ambassador for Nederland Leest, opens the reading relay. Director Shireen Strooker concludes it. 'Oeroeg' is Hella Haasse's debut novel from 1948. Haasse tells the story of the friendship between an Indonesian boy and the son of a Dutch administrator at a tea plantation in the Dutch East Indies before the Second World War. Gradually, the two boys grow apart. When the narrator, the Dutch boy, returns to the Indies—which has not yet quite become Indonesia—after studying in Delft, their estrangement turns out to have grown into a chasm. The final sentence reads: "Am I forever a stranger in the land of my birth, on the soil from which I do not wish to be uprooted? Time will tell."