Today from The RÚV English Podcast service, a conversation with Meiting Nevæh Qin, Research & Development Project Manager at the Arctic Green Energy Corporation.

Meiting moved to Iceland from China three years ago, and on today's show she tells Darren about her work bringing Iceland's geothermal knowledge to her home country: some two million Chinese homes are now heated using geothermal energy. She also shares her love of Icelandic music and what she loves about her new home.

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So who will it be? Who gets to take their song to the Eurovision Song Contest and hopefully score Iceland's first ever win?

The job of revealing the answer falls to Söngvakeppnin co-host Unnsteinn Manuel Stefánsson, and his colleagues Ragnhildur Steinunn Jónsdóttir and previous podcast guest Siggi Gunnars. Today Unnsteinn joins Darren to talk about his own route to hosting the show, final preparations for Saturday's huge final, and putting the performers at ease before their big moment.

Unnsteinn also explains how - if you're in Iceland - you can help select the song that will represent the country in May.

Find the five Söngvakeppnin finalists right here - https://www.ruv.is/songvakeppnin

And watch the show wherever you are! 7.45pm this Saturday.

Of course it's on RÚV in Iceland, or anywhere else at https://www.ruv.is/sjonvarp/dagskra/ruv/2023-03-04/5291552

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The RÚV English Podcast service reaches its twentieth episode today, in the company of Shilpa Khatri Babbar.

Shilpa is the ICCR Chair of Indian Studies at Háskóli Íslands (University of Iceland), and last year at home in Delhi, got an offer to come to Iceland to live and work. The chance came out of the blue, and she took it!

Shilpa tells Darren Adam about her impressions of Iceland, and how she's been struck by similarities between Iceland and her home country of India.

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Today sees a new episode of The Week In Iceland from The RÚV English Podcast service.

Darren's guest today is journalist Andie Sophia Fontaine. Andie is a familiar and much-loved face to those with an interest in Iceland, and has been reporting in and on the country for two decades.

Under the spotlight today: the ongoing Efling/SA dispute and imminent "work ban", or lockout, the fire at the Arctic Fish buildings in Tálknafjörður, high prices and taxes on food and fuel in Iceland, the announcement of the first acts for this year's Iceland Airwaves, and - staying with music - the second Söngvakeppnin semi-final.

All five remaining finalists can be heard here - https://www.ruv.is/songvakeppnin - and today's episode plays out with the three songs revealed on Saturday to have progressed to the final.

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Today from the RÚV English Podcast service, another episode of Auðskilið - the news read in simple and slow Icelandic, as written by Atli Sigþórsson for the RÚV website.

In today's edition, the fate of the "little auks" - small seabirds that got blown far off course and inland by the recent strong winds - and the difficulties of translating phrases such as the name of the birds' actual species.

Read along with every word here - https://www.ruv.is/audskilid/2023-02-08-sjofuglar-langt-inni-i-landi

We start just after the photo on that page.

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Reykjavík city centre has played host to an airport for over 100 years, predating the international facility at Keflavík by a couple of decades. Its past and beginnings are fascinating, its present and future sometimes controversial.

Today on the RÚV English Podcast, Darren is joined by aviation journalist Andrei Menshenin, who details the history of Reykjavík's city centre airport, and offers his own personal views as to its possible future.

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Today on the RÚV English Podcast service, an attempt to go back to first principles and explain a story which seems more complex every day.

The wage dispute between union Efling and business body SA is never far from the headlines, with court battles seemingly always raging over the legality of various actions and plans. But how did this start? What exactly is SA - who does it represent? And what of Efling, the union at the heart of the dispute?

With no question too daft to ask, Darren is joined by his RÚV colleague Pétur Magnússon to go right back to the start and explain what's going on. Our conversation was recorded just after 4pm on Wednesday 22 February, so here's the situation as it was right at that moment. Catch up before it all changes again.

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Today on the RÚV English Podcast, a new episode of The Week In Iceland.

Darren is joined by journalist Kolbeinn Dalrymple, making a return guest appearance on The Week In Iceland. We (try to) keep up with the dizzying pace of events in the Efling/SA dispute, look at some of the projects in rural parts of Iceland receiving grants from the government, revisit the controversy over the English language appearing before Icelandic on signs, and yes, review the first Söngvakeppnin semi-final.

The show plays out with two songs today - both were selected on Saturday to advance to the Söngvakeppnin final. Hear Lifandi inni í mér by Diljá, and Stundum snýst heimurinn gegn þér by BRAGI.

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Mid-February marks the end of the month of Þorri, the fourth winter month in the old Icelandic calendar. In (relatively) modern times, "Þorrablót" parties and celebrations of the month were introduced in the 19th century and have been popular ever since, accompanied by lots of traditional foods called Þorramatur. Liver sausage, fermented shark, sour ram's testicles and boiled sheep head are just some of the delicacies enjoyed during Þorri - although not exclusively at this time.

But how did we get here? How did such unusual foods become part of the Icelandic diet, and why are they still so popular today that you can pick them up in any halfway decently sized Icelandic supermarket?

Iceland's cheese queen and all round culinary goddess Eirný Sigurðardóttir joins Darren as the fourth winter month draws to a close, and explains that actually, Þorramatur isn't necessarily just for Þorri.

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Today from the RÚV English Podcast service, another episode of the always popular Auðskilið. Atli, writer of the "easy to understand" section of ruv.is, takes a look at the recent floods and the damage they've caused to many of Iceland's roads - in simple, easy to understand Icelandic.

Read along with this story with Atli and Darren at https://www.ruv.is/audskilid/2023-02-14-flod-a-vesturhluta-landsins-i-gaer

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