This piece is billed as a look at Delft, a now small and not-as-significant-as-it-used-to-be town in The Netherlands. It has a big history, though. This piece winds us through a bit of the history of Delft via a huge event, an black-powder explosion heard 150km away and felt 20km away.

Through this event and the look at 17th century Delft, we learn about Delft's arts culture and an artist that might have been as famous as any of the greats had he not been caught in the explosion. The reason for the black powder in the middle of the city was because an ongoing war with Spain and the inability to defend a remote black powder dump. It all fits in there nicely, though a couple of times I felt like the story was broadened to that extent simple because the topic of the Delft Thunderclap wasn't expansive enough to fill 30 minutes. Whether that impression be true, the centerpiece of the look at Delft, the conditions that brought about the explosion and the results of the explosion made for an interesting piece.