Radia #1041 - The Voices Are Burning by Gerarda Evenbeen - 5 June 2025

Members of **http://radia.fm**, the international group of independent cultural radio stations, explore new and forgotten ways of making radio.

Gerarda Monster grew up in the hamlet of Mookhoek in a liberal Christian family of 12 children. A dominant, cigar-smoking mother and a father whose fervent nudism did not go down well in the small Mookhoek community, not to mention his tendency to sometimes disguise himself as a woman.

Mother had a clothing repair service in Strijen, father worked at the office of Piet Klerkx in Waalwijk. In his spare time he supported refugee work in the Netherlands and was conductor of the choir ‘De Zevende Hemel’ (a project of Humanitas for mildly handicapped children). Gerarda went to study law in Leiden where she met her future husband, Gert Evenbeen at the law firm where she did an internship.

Gert played an important role in her decision to hang up her robe and devote herself to creating avant-garde compositions for a very select audience, actin