Archipelago
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An English-language podcast about arts, culture, and ideas in Denmark — Scandinavia's smallest (mostly) island nation.
Season 4 — six new stories about people living a life less ordinary — begins on 3 July 2025.
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S4E6 Bossed in Translation
For the season finale, we sit down with Sherilyn Nicolette Hellberg, an up-and-coming American translator of Scandinavian fiction and non-fiction. After falling in love with Danish literature at…
S4E5 The Man Who Rebuilt Graceland
Henrik Knudsen is the Elvis Presley superfan who built Memphis Mansion — a brick-for-brick replica of Graceland in the Danish city of Randers.From his 148 pilgrimages to America to the legal showdown…
S4E4 Reading Between the Lives
The Human Library is a groundbreaking initiative founded in Copenhagen in 2000, where instead of borrowing books, visitors "borrow" people — volunteers who share their personal stories and…
S4E3 Play School
What if your school week involved colonizing planets, fleeing Nazis, or negotiating with fantasy kingdoms—all while studying history and science?In this episode, we meet Mathias Granum, the founder…
S4E2 Rocket Men
Copenhagen Suborbitals is the world’s only volunteer-run, crowdfunded space program. Based in Copenhagen, the group's 70 volunteers are building a DIY spacecraft to send a person to suborbital…
S4E1 The Man Who Saw the World
We're back after almost three years with a brand-new season about people living a life less ordinary — beginning with Danish adventurer Thor Pedersen, who shares his incredible story of visiting…
Introducing 'Dad Mode Activated'
From the producer and host of Archipelago, Dad Mode Activated explores the reality of becoming a father after the age of 40.With episodes released every fortnight, the podcast features conversations…
S3E6 This Amarkaner Life: Marianne's Swords
“Opening Champagne with a sword is more fun. You can feel it in your stomach.”So says Marianne Sass Petersen — a bookkeeper from Amager whose life changed when she attended a Champagne sabering…
S3E5 This Amarkaner Life: Mad About Amager
In episode five, we meet the chef trying to put Amager on the culinary map — quite literally.Yngve Fobian is the head chef at Øens Spisested — a "local" restaurant in more ways than one.For one…
S3E4 This Amarkaner Life: The Cold Shock
The Helgoland sea-bathing club, at the northern tip of Amager's beach, is home to one of the world's oldest winter-bathing associations, Det Kolde Gys ("The Cold Shock").In episode four of This…
S3E3 This Amarkaner Life: Bee Curious
There's already a bit of a buzz around this episode — if only because the Amarkaners in question are the island’s hard-working honeybees.In episode three, we visit Bybi — a bee-powered project based…
S3E2 This Amarkaner Life: Plane Speaking
Please return your seatbacks and tray tables to their fully upright position because we'll shortly be landing at one of Amager’s best-known restaurants — Flyvergrillen. You'll find it at Copenhagen…
S3E1 This Amarkaner Life: Kurt's Ferrets
"Amager is a great place. Amager is number one.”So says Kurt Helmann Jensen ("Kurt like Kurt Russell"). And he should know.For one thing, he's a self-proclaimed "Amarkaner" — a dyed-in-the-wool…
S2E6 Stories Behind Bars
Danish "song kindergartens" hit the right notes, while a 19th-century prison provides an unsettling location for an overnight stay.In this episode, we visit Trekroner Børnehus, a kindergarten outside…
S2E5 Right-On Green
Two Danish institutions have discovered eye-catching ways to go green.From Greta Thunberg’s school strike to the Fridays for the Future movement, there’s no shortage of children taking a stand…
S2E4 The Light Fantastic
In the bleak midwinter, the sun scarcely seems to rise in Denmark at all.Is it any wonder, then, that the Danes are so obsessed with good lighting? That Denmark has produced many of the world’s most…
S2E3 Blixen En Pointe
“Those who wish to relive their lives, never lived them in the first place.”The words of Karen Blixen — the acclaimed Danish writer whose life story is the basis of a brand-new ballet created…
S2E2 Memory Palace
Meik Wiking is one of the world’s leading happiness experts.The founder of the Happiness Research Institute, he’s also the author of two New York Times bestsellers — The Little Book of Hygge and The…
S2E1 Pieces of Aidt
We kick off season two of Archipelago with a very special guest indeed.Naja Marie Aidt has been described as “one of the most intelligent writers of the contemporary literary world” and as “one of…
S1E6 The Porn Supremacy
We end season one with a bang — on the little known Danish island of Pornø. To mark half a century since Denmark became the first country to legalise visual pornography, we take a deep dive into arty…
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Archipelago has published 26 episodes since April 2019, covering topics in Arts, Documentary.
Archipelago is currently dormant with new episodes every 2 weeks. Average episode length is 31m.
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