Archipelago

Archipelago episodes:

• 12.30.2022

  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 competition at Tivoli.Dedicating herself to the art...

  
• 12.20.2022

  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 thing, most of its...

  
• 12.16.2022

  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 Amarkaner Life, we brave the heat of the sauna...

  
• 11.30.2022

  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 in Amager’s historic Sundholm district — to...

  
• 10.24.2022

  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 airport, but don’t go looking for it before your next...

  
• 10.04.2022

  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 resident of Amager, the much-maligned, teardrop-shaped island in southern Copenhagen.He's...

  
• 10.29.2021

  Introducing... The Recipe

  Say hello to a brand-new food podcast. It’s called The Recipe — and it's all about the new generation of restaurants and the people behind them. If you heard the Mad World episode of Archipelago, in which we took a...

  
• 04.16.2020

  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 Roskilde, to hear about Sangglad — a scheme to "increase and improve"...

  
• 03.27.2020

  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 against climate change.But while their activism takes place outside the school...

  
• 12.20.2019

  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 iconic lights? That Danes...

  
• 11.09.2019

  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 exclusively for the Royal Danish Theatre...

  
• 09.22.2019

  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 Little Book of Lykke — which...

  
• 08.22.2019

  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 the compassionate voices in fiction”.Born in...

  
• 06.20.2019

  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 porn and...

  
• 06.05.2019

  Mad World

  Once a foodie wasteland, Copenhagen is today a major gastronomic destination.It is, of course, the epicentre of New Nordic cuisine — the culinary movement that championed hyper-local, seasonal ingredients and elevated foraging and fermentation to art forms.But it’s also a...

  
• 05.22.2019

  Chair Necessities

  We try to solve one of the greatest mysteries of all time.Why are the Danish so crazy about chairs? Why are there so many Danish chairs? And does the world really need any more of them?Ahead of 3 Days of...

  
• 05.08.2019

  Born To Be Wild

  CPH:DOX is one of the world’s largest documentary film festivals — and a highlight of Copenhagen’s cultural calendar.In this episode we talk to the directors of two films that were screened in competition at the 2019 festival. Two very similar...

  
• 05.07.2019

  Booze and Bouquets

  Episode two is about two Danish companies that have developed creative ways to employ people who often struggle to pick up work.First we meet People Like Us — a brewing company run by people who have been diagnosed with autism...

  
• 05.01.2019

  You Say Yes, I Say No

  Two very different takes on what our default response to life's opportunities ought to be. Based on a pair of words that we all use every day. A pair of words with the power to change your life, alter the...

  
• 04.27.2019

  Archipelago Trailer

  A preview of the brand-new podcast about arts, culture and ideas in Denmark. Produced by Mothertongue Media.