Thijs Bakker runs the late afternoon on Network Radio, the slot where the working day starts letting go of people. He treats it like a job with actual responsibility, because he thinks it is one. Get the drive home wrong and you have ruined an hour of someone's life.
He started out doing sound for small venues in Utrecht, hauling cables and learning which rooms lie to you. Twelve years behind a mixing desk taught him something most presenters never pick up: silence is a tool, not a mistake. Thijs is comfortable letting a track finish before he says anything, and that patience is the whole reason his show feels different.
His taste runs wide. Krautrock into modern jazz, then a left turn into something with a beat you can walk to. He does not explain his choices much. He just makes them work.
Weekday afternoons, until the traffic clears.
