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 with late-blooming dads who are rewrit...

“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 h...

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.F...

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 Amar...

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 proje...

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 yo...

"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-malig...

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 Sangg...

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 th...

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 have the wor...

“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 Th...

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 have bee...

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”.

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 pornographic art.<...

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 ferme...

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 Design — Denmark’s bigge...

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 s...

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 and social...

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 course of history, or simp...

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