ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
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.
Hosts:
Update frequency:
every 25 days
Average audio length:
29 minutes
Guest interviews
English
United States
26 episodes
since April 27, 2019
episodic
AUDIENCE OF THIS PODCAST 🔗
~51.39% of listeners are from United States.
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US
51.39%
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GB
12.46%
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TH
8.65%
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DK
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CA
1.27%
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IN
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BE
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PH
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Others
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LATEST EPISODE 🔗
For the season finale, we sit down with Sherilyn Nicolette Hellberg, an up-and-coming American translator of Scandinavian fiction and non-fiction. After falling in love with Danish literature at school, she swapped Long Island for Copenhagen — and hasn’t looked back.
From deciphering Danish idioms …
PREVIOUS EPISODES 🔗
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 148 pilgrimages to America to the legal showdown with Elvis Presley Enterprises, Henrik's story is a rollercoaster of obsession, risk, and roc…
The Human Library is a groundbreaking initiative founded in Copenhagen in 2000, where instead of borrowing books, visitors "borrow" people — volunteers who share their personal stories and experiences to challenge prejudice and foster understanding.
In this episode, founder Ronni Abergel …
What if your school week involved colonizing planets, fleeing Nazis, or negotiating with fantasy kingdoms—all while studying history and science?
In this episode, we meet Mathias Granum, the founder of EPOS, a groundbreaking Danish boarding school where students learn through live-action role-play …
Copenhagen Suborbitals is the world’s only volunteer-run, crowdfunded space program. Based in Copenhagen, the group's 70 volunteers are building a DIY spacecraft to send a person to suborbital space.
In this episode, we meet the group's parachute systems lead, Mads Stenfatt, who shares th…
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, who shares his incredible story of visiting every country in the world without flying.
Thor recounts his experiences crossing oceans on cargo s…
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 rewriting the playbook of modern parenthood.
Expect real-life stori…
“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 herself to the art of opening Champagne bottles with swords, she went on…
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.For one thing, most of its ingredients are from Amager — a haul celebrated on a map in the dining room.…
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 Amarkaner Life, we brave the heat of the sauna and the icy waters of the Øresund to t…
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