# De Wereld Draait Door

De Wereld Draait Door (; DWDD) was an early-evening talk show on Dutch television, broadcast every weekday at 7:00 p.m. on NPO 1. It was the Netherlands' longest-running, regularly scheduled TV entertainment show and had the second-highest viewing figures of any Dutch television program, beaten only by the main evening news at 8.00 p.m. The title meant "The World Keeps Turning", or figuratively "The World Is Going Mad". The show, created by Dieuwke Wynia and produced by BNNVARA, was discontinued after the last episode on 27 March 2020.

## Content

The chat, conducted at a large table, was hosted by Matthijs van Nieuwkerk and a rotating guest co-host. Guests were politicians, celebrities, artists, or simply people involved in projects or organizations that were topics of interest. The show contained a mixture of news, information, television bloopers and general entertainment. Frequent guests and panelists included Jan Mulder, Yvon Jaspers, Halina Reijn, Giel Beelen, Mathijs Bouman, Sylvana Simons, Marc-Marie Huijbregts and André van Duin. House poet Nico Dijkshoorn had a weekly column in the show, usually on Wednesday. Each show had a live performance of a band in the studio. The show's closing sequence was Lucky TV, a small movie clip that featured a parody of news with changed voice-over text added to the video. One of those ending clips, where Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump were singing a duet during a presidential debate, became a viral phenomenon. From 2014, Dutch Eurovision Song Contest entries were premiered on the show.

## DWDD University

DWDD University was a series of special episodes, in which a professional expert in a certain area held a one-and-a-half hour long lecture to a general audience. It commenced in 2012 with a lecture by then IAS director Robbert Dijkgraaf about the Big Bang.
The following speakers have contributed to DWDD university:
| Date | Speaker | Subject | Location | Viewership |
| 17 May 2012 | Robbert Dijkgraaf | Big Bang | Ronde Lutherse Kerk (Church) | 991,000 |
| 16 November 2012 | Robbert Dijkgraaf | The smallest (microcosms) | Westergasfabriek, Amsterdam | 1,056,000 |
| 26 April 2013 | Alexander Klöpping | De Wereld van Klöpping 1.0 (the past of Silicon Valley) | MC Theater | 586,000 |
| 3 May 2013 | Alexander Klöpping | De Wereld van Klöpping 2.0 (the present of Silicon Valley) | MC Theater | 466,000 |
| 10 May 2013 | Alexander Klöpping | De Wereld van Klöpping 3.0 (the future of Silicon Valley) | MC Theater | 536,000 |
| 29 November 2013 | Robbert Dijkgraaf | Albert Einstein theories | Westergasfabriek, Amsterdam | 859,000 |
| 13 December 2013 | Robert Kranenborg [nl] | Cows | Westergasfabriek, Amsterdam | 725,000 |
| 28 November 2014 | Robbert Dijkgraaf | Infinity | Westergasfabriek, Amsterdam | 1,104,000 |
| 12 December 2014 | Freek Vonk | Poison | Westergasfabriek, Amsterdam | 1,462,000 |
| 30 April 2015 | Erik Scherder | Human brain (part 1): De Aanknop | Podium Mozaïek | |
| 7 May 2015 | Erik Scherder | Human brain (part 2): Bloedstollend | Podium Mozaïek | |
| 14 May 2015 | Erik Scherder | Human brain (part 3): Het Geheugen | Podium Mozaïek | |
| 28 May 2015 | Twan Huys | DWDD Summerschool: Bill and Hillary Clinton | | 858,000 |
| 4 June 2015 | Gijs Scholten van Aschat | DWDD Summerschool: William Shakespeare | | 645,000 |
| 11 June 2015 | Claudia de Breij | DWDD Summerschool: Het Nederlandse lied (Dutch song) | | 925,000 |
| 18 June 2015 | Wim Pijbes | DWDD Summerschool: Rijksmuseum Amsterdam | | 998,000 |
| 25 June 2015 | Mart Smeets | DWDD Summerschool: American big four: baseball, ice hockey, basketball and American Football | | 719,000 |
| 2 July 2015 | Wilfried de Jong [nl] & Michel van Egmond [nl] | DWDD Summerschool: Miles Davis | | |
| 27 November 2015 | Robbert Dijkgraaf | Black holes | Westergasfabriek, Amsterdam | 1,212,000 |
| 12 March 2016 | Beatrice de Graaf | Terrorism | | 1,216,000 |
| 2 December 2016 | Robbert Dijkgraaf | Light | Westergasfabriek, Amsterdam | |
| 9 December 2016 | Freek Vonk | Evolution | Westergasfabriek, Amsterdam | |