Today on RÚV English Radio, a step into the future.

The future is often described as a far away place we have very little control over, but one day, somewhere, someone imagined that we would live the way we live today.

The Future Festival (https://borgarbokasafn.is/en/event/children/future-festival-how-future) invites you to examine these ideas from March 1st to March 14th in the Reykjavik City Library at Grófin. It's all free!

Darren spoke to library project managers Fanny Sissoko and Martyna Karolina Daniel.

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Today on RÚV English Radio, it's a double episode.

First, Edda is the place to be on Tuesday 4 March at 16:00, for Vendipunktar: Aðfluttar kvenraddir // Turning Points: Immigrant Women’s Voices (https://www.facebook.com/events/1410789764060920/) - the result of conversations with women who arrived in Iceland as asylum seekers and refugees. The performance part of the event weaves together these women's stories with those of a couple of remarkable immigrant women in the Icelandic sagas.

Darren spoke to Emily Lethbridge, Associate Research Professor at the Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies, about this fascinating event.

Then, a new episode of Icelandic learning strand Auðskilið. Today we look at a ban on energy drinks for under 18s - follow along with the text here - https://www.ruv.is/audskilid/2026-02-16-flestir-vilja-banna-bornum-ad-kaupa-orkudrykki-467141

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Today on RÚV English Radio, the exhibition coming to SÍM Residency this weekend.

Three Belgian and three Icelandic artists are taking part in a residency exchange, and this Friday and Saturday see a group exhibition of those Belgian artists at the SÍM artist residency (https://www.sim-residency.info/), Seljavegur 32, in Reykjavík.

The focus of their art-science project (https://www.sim-residency.info/event-details/sim-residency-samsyning-drift-tip-the-point-art-earth) is glaciers - landscapes that are visibly changing and disappearing.

Darren spoke to artist Kevin Trappeniers and curator Nicolas Baeyens.

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Today on RÚV English Radio, the first of two programmes looking at Listasafnið á Akureyri - the Akureyri Art Museum.

Björk Viggósdóttir's Hreyfing fyrir sjón (Movement For Vision) is currently showing (https://www.listak.is/en/exhibitions/current-exhibitions/bjork-viggosdottir) at the museum. Björk creates interactive experiential installations, where older technologies blend with modern technology in visual art.

Darren met Björk in her Reykjavík studio.

In part II, we'll go to the museum to meet Guðmundur Ármann, and see his retrospective Aðflæði (Influx).

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Today on RÚV English Radio, an interview recorded for RÚV's foreign coverage. The foreign news desk here at RÚV produces a radio programme about foreign affairs, Heimskviður. It is broadcast on Rás 1 on Saturday afternoons.

Many interviews recorded for Heimskviður (https://www.ruv.is/utvarp/dagskra/ras1/2026-02-21/5487771) happen in English, and occasionally here on RÚV English Radio you'll have the chance to hear those conversations.

The film Trainspotting is 30 years old, and was enormously popular here in Iceland. It tells the story of a group of friends in Edinburgh who are deeply immersed in heroin use.

RÚV's Dagný Hulda Erlendsdóttir spoke with Kevin Williamson. He was the first to publish Irvine Welsh's Trainspotting, initially as short stories in his cultural magazine Rebel Inc.

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Today on RÚV English Radio, moving away, and coming home.

Dr. Karítas Hrundar Pálsdóttir is a previous guest on RÚV English Radio, talking about her "Vikuspá" collection of short stories (https://www.ruv.is/english/2025-11-04-ruv-english-radio-dr-karitas-hrundar-palsdottir-icelandic-easy-language-fiction-457810) for adult learners of Icelandic as a second language.

She's written a new and very different book, called "Readaptation Narratives in Sojourner Literature" (https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-032-01340-8), which examines the literature of sojourners: migrants who travel freely and by choice, but struggle with the experience of returning home.

Darren met Karítas to hear more.

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Today on RÚV English Radio, some more bite-sized Icelandic language learning, in the latest weekly episode of Auðskilið.

Each week, as part of our regular programming, RÚV English Radio hopes to assist with the learning of Icelandic - https://www.ruv.is/english/2026-01-19-learn-icelandic-with-ruv-english-radio-463826

In weekly shows, called Auðskilið - which means "easily understood" - you can follow along with a recent news story, written and read in a simple form of Icelandic.

Today, plans for Iceland's new "national hall". Follow along with the text here - https://www.ruv.is/audskilid/2026-01-27-ny-thjodarholl-byggd-i-vor-465230

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Today on RÚV English Radio, the new music series at Reykjavík's Harpa.

Upprásin is a concert series dedicated to the grassroots of Icelandic music, across musical genres.

The goal is for music enthusiasts to be able to hear a variety of new Icelandic music, straight from the grassroots, performed in the nation's concert house.

Upprásin takes place in Kaldalón hall in Harpa one Tuesday evening a month.

You can go along to enjoy the show (https://www.harpa.is/en/events/20247) - or if you make music, apply to play yourself (https://www.harpa.is/en/umsoknareydublad-upprasin-2026-2027) next year.

Darren spoke to Elísabet Indra Ragnarsdóttir, Harpa's project manager for programming.

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Today, Iceland on the small and big screens.

Iceland's beauty is often used as a backdrop, or even a character, in TV shows and films. But there is more to the story than simply pointing a camera at a geysir or a volcano. A thriving creative industry exists in the country, creating and telling new stories all the time.

Andri Ómarsson is CEO of Glassriver (https://www.glassriver.is/), whose series Cold Haven was selected for the 2026 Berlinale Series Market. He told Darren about the growing success of TV and film making in Iceland.

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Today on RÚV English Radio, it's a new episode of The Week In Iceland.

Darren is joined by his RÚV colleague Gunnhildur Kjerúlf Birgisdóttir.

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