Archipelago

by Archipelago Audio

An English-language podcast about arts, culture, and ideas in Denmark — Scandinavia's smallest (mostly) island nation.

Season 4 — six new stories about people living a life less ordinary — begins on 3 July 2025.

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Bossed in Translation

For the season finale, we sit down with Sherilyn Nicolette Hellberg, an up-and-coming American translator of Scandinavian fiction and non-fiction. Aft...

41m

•Aug 14, 2025

The Man Who Rebuilt Graceland

Henrik Knudsen is the Elvis Presley superfan who built Memphis Mansion — a brick-for-brick replica of Graceland in the Danish city of Randers.From his...

39m

•Aug 7, 2025

Reading Between the Lives

The Human Library is a groundbreaking initiative founded in Copenhagen in 2000, where instead of borrowing books, visitors "borrow" people — volunteer...

41m

•Jul 31, 2025

Play School

What if your school week involved colonizing planets, fleeing Nazis, or negotiating with fantasy kingdoms—all while studying history and science?In th...

45m

•Jul 17, 2025

Rocket Men

Copenhagen Suborbitals is the world’s only volunteer-run, crowdfunded space program. Based in Copenhagen, the group's 70 volunteers are building a DIY...

44m

•Jul 10, 2025

The Man Who Saw the World

We're back after almost three years with a brand-new season about people living a life less ordinary — beginning with Danish adventurer Thor Pedersen,...

59m

•Jul 3, 2025