Archipelago

<p>We're back after almost three years with a brand-new season about people living a life less ordinary — beginning with Danish adventurer <b>Thor Pedersen</b>, who shares his incredible story of visiting every country...

<p>From the producer and host of Archipelago, Dad Mode Activated explores the reality of becoming a father after the age of 40.</p><p>With episodes released every fortnight, the podcast features conversations with...

<p>“Opening Champagne with a sword is more fun. You can feel it in your stomach.”<br/><br/>So says Marianne Sass Petersen — a bookkeeper from Amager whose life changed when she attended a Champagne sabering competition...

<p>In episode five, we meet the chef trying to put Amager on the culinary map — quite literally.<br/><br/>Yngve Fobian is the head chef at Øens Spisested — a "local" restaurant in more ways than one.<br/><br/>For one...

<p>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").<br/><br/>In episode four of This Amarkaner...

<p>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.<br/><br/>In episode three, we visit <b>Bybi</b> — a bee-powered project based...

<p>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...

<p>"Amager is a great place. Amager is number one.”<br/><br/>So says Kurt Helmann Jensen ("Kurt like Kurt Russell"). And he should know.<br/><br/>For one thing, he's a self-proclaimed "Amarkaner" — a dyed-in-the-wool...

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

<p>Danish "song kindergartens" hit the right notes, while a 19th-century prison provides an unsettling location for an overnight stay.<br/><br/>In this episode, we visit <b>Trekroner Børnehus</b>, a kindergarten outside...

<p>Two Danish institutions have discovered eye-catching ways to go green.<br/><br/>From Greta Thunberg’s school strike to the Fridays for the Future movement, there’s no shortage of children taking a stand against...

<p>In the bleak midwinter, the sun scarcely seems to rise in Denmark at all.</p><p>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...

<p>“Those who wish to relive their lives, never lived them in the first place.”<br/><br/>The words of Karen Blixen — the acclaimed Danish writer whose life story is the basis of a brand-new ballet created exclusively...

<p>Meik Wiking is one of the world’s leading happiness experts.<br/><br/>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...

<p>We kick off season two of Archipelago with a very special guest indeed.</p><p>Naja Marie Aidt has been described as “one of the most intelligent writers of the contemporary literary world” and as “one of the...