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RÚV English Radio
RÚV English Radio is the new name for the RÚV English Podcast. Every weekday you can find a brand new show from RÚV English Radio, right here. We cover everything Icelandic - news, culture, music, language, events, people, places and more. Hear a new programme, in English, every day, on RÚV English Radio - part of Iceland's national broadcasting service, RÚV. If you have an idea for a show, or just want to get in touch, email anytime - english@ruv.is
Episodes
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Episode 63 - EUROVISION NOT THE ONLY DIVERSITY CELEBRATION
Today, RÚV English is in Breiðholt, and looking ahead to Saturday. This weekend, Reykjavík's family and petting zoo (Fjölskyldu- og húsdýragarðurinn) will play…
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Episode 62 - PLAY JA JA DING DONG AT THE HUSAVÍK EUROVISION MUSEUM!
Today, RÚV English talks Eurovision in what is surely the spiritual home of the contest, Husavík! The 2020 comedy film Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of…
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Episode 61 - THE WEEK IN ICELAND IN AKUREYRI: ÓLÖF RÚN ERLENDSDÓTTIR
Today, RÚV English is in Akureyri, for an episode of The Week In Iceland. Darren joins his RÚV colleague Ólöf Rún Erlendsdóttir at the Akureyri studio to…
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Episode 60 - THE ENTIRE HISTORY OF ICELAND AT EUROVISION
On the eve of Eurovision week, Darren and music journalist Lydia Athanasopoulou review every single Icelandic entry to Eurovision since the debut in 1986!…
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Episode 59 - AUÐSKILIÐ - 12 year old sports star, in simple Icelandic
Today from RÚV English, another episode of Auðskilið - the news written and read in easy to understand Icelandic. Darren is once again joined by his colleague…
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Episode 58 - BEHIND THE SCENES AT KRAKKAFRÉTTIR
Today, RÚV English finds out about Krakkafréttir, RÚV's daily news programme for younger viewers. Darren spoke to one of the programme's two hosts, Kolbrún…
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Episode 57 - THE SERIOUS BUSINESS OF COMEDY IN ICELAND
Today, RÚV English travels to Borgarnes to find out about comedy in the town and in the capital. A quick glance at the website comedyiniceland.com will confirm…
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Episode 56 - THE WEEK IN ICELAND: HAUKUR HOLM
Holiday Monday brings a new episode of The Week In Iceland to The RÚV English Podcast. Darren's guest today is his RÚV colleague Haukur Holm. In an episode…
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Episode 55 - THE HISTORY OF ICELANDIC MUSIC: THE "GOLDEN OLDIES"
Music journalist Lydia Athanasopoulou joins Darren to take a look and a listen to the history of Icelandic music, through a different genre each week. Today we…
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Episode 54 - AUÐSKILIÐ, in simple Icelandic: REYKJAVÍK BREAKS THE LAW?
Today on The RÚV English, a new episode of Auðskilið - the news written and read in simple Icelandic. Atli joins Darren to look at claims that Reykjavík City…
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Episode 53 - THE FUTURE, PAST AND PRESENT OF AKUREYRI AIRPORT
Today on The RÚV English Podcast, Darren's guest is aviation journalist Andrei Menshenin, making a return visit to the show. Iceland's northern capital was…
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Episode 52 - THE SETTLEMENT CENTRE, BORGARNES
Today, The RÚV English Podcast visits the Settlement Centre in Borgarnes, in West Iceland. In two of the town's oldest buildings, The Settlement Centre…
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Episode 51 - THE WEEK IN ICELAND - PÉTUR MAGNÚSSON
We start the week on The RÚV English Podcast service with a new episode of The Week In Iceland. Today, Darren is joined by his RÚV colleague Pétur Magnússon…
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Episode 50: THE HISTORY OF ICELANDIC MUSIC: CLASSICAL
The fiftieth episode from The RÚV English Podcast service is part of our series on Icelandic music, in its many genres. Music journalist Lydia Athanasopoulou…
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Episode 49 - THE FIRST DAY OF SUMMER
Darren got a surprise today. He knew it was the first day of summer - but not that he had the day off. The first day of summer is marked as a public holiday in…
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Episode 48 - DRIVING MUM with ODDNÝ SEN
New Icelandic film Driving Mum (Á Ferð með Mömmu) is a critical and commercial hit. Film scholar Oddný Sen joins Darren to take a look. The death of Jon's…
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Episode 47 - THE ART OF EMILIA TELESE
Emilia Telese, born in Italy and living and working in Reykjavík, is an award-winning artist, writer and academic. Today, she is Darren's guest on The RÚV…
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Episode 46 - THE WEEK IN ICELAND - Kolbeinn Dalrymple
Today from The RÚV English Podcast service, a new episode of The Week In Iceland. Darren's guest is journalist Kolbeinn Dalrymple, making a return visit to the…
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Episode 45 - THE HISTORY OF ICELANDIC MUSIC: FOLK AND RÍMUR
Our new Icelandic music history show continues on The RÚV English Podcast service today. Music journalist Lydia Athanasopoulou joins Darren to take a look and…
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Episode 44 - AUÐSKILIÐ - Niceair cancel flights - in simple Icelandic
Today from The RÚV English Podcast service, an episode of Auðskilið - the news in easy-to-understand Icelandic. Atli joins Darren to read the original story…
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Episode 43 - FOOTBALL AND ART, FROM PENNSYLVANIA TO AKRANES
Jaclyn Poucel Árnason is an American artist, mother, and former footballer, living in Akranes with her husband and daughter. Jaclyn is originally from…
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Episode 42 - AUÐSKILIÐ - THE END OF FRÉTTABLAÐIÐ, in simple Icelandic
Today, on a bonus episode of Auðskilið, Atli joins Darren to go through the sudden demise of daily newspaper Fréttablaðið, in simple, easy-to-understand…
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Episode 41 - THE WEEK IN ICELAND - JOSIE GAITENS
Darren's guest today is Josie Gaitens, formerly of The Reykjavík Grapevine. They discuss some of what's been happening on the island in recent days: Jodie…
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Episode 40 - THE HISTORY OF ICELANDIC MUSIC: JAZZ
Our new Icelandic music history show continues on The RÚV English Podcast service today. Music journalist Lydia Athanasopoulou will join Darren to take a look…
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Episode 39 - AUÐSKILIÐ - GLEÐILEGA PÁSKA! - in simple Icelandic
Today, on the first of many people's Easter days off, Atli joins Darren to go through the Easter story and customs, in simple, easy-to-understand Icelandic…
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Episode 38 - NEW ICELANDER: PÁLINA - LA VIKINGA MEXICANA
Pálina moved from Mexico City to Iceland, and now shares her knowledge of her new country, and help for new arrivals, with Spanish speakers everywhere, on her…
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Episode 37 - FROM THE AWARD CEREMONY TO THE VINYL RACKS?
The pop, rock, hip hop and electronic Album Of The Year at this year's Icelandic Music Awards is Ungfrú Ísland by Kvikindi - but if you want to buy a copy on…
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Episode 36 - THE WEEK IN ICELAND: BUDGETS, EVACUATIONS, MOTIONS, MEDIA
Today from The RÚV English Podcast service, a new episode of The Week In Iceland. Darren's guest is Valur Grettisson, former editor of Grapevine magazine…
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Episode 35 - THE HISTORY OF ICELANDIC MUSIC: ELECTRONIC
A brand new show comes to The RÚV English Podcast service today. Every Friday, music journalist Lydia Athanasopoulou will join Darren to take a look and a…
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Episode 34 - LEARNING ABOUT FILM WITH ODDNÝ SEN
Today, Darren's guest on The RÚV English Podcast is film historian, writer and teacher Oddný Sen, who along with her work at the Icelandic Film School, is the…
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Episode 33 - HEIMSKVIÐUR - PROGRAMMING FROM RÚV'S FOREIGN DESK
Every week, the foreign news desk here at RÚV produces a radio program, and a podcast, about foreign affairs and world events. The programme is called…
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Episode 32 - AUÐSKILIÐ - "easy to understand" - the avalanches
Today, Atli returns to the RÚV English Podcast service to join Darren for a new episode of Auðskilið. It's a chance to hear a current news story, written and…
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Episode 31 - THE WEEK IN ICELAND: INGÓLFUR BJARNI SIGFÚSSON
Today Darren is joined by Ingólfur Bjarni Sigfússon from RÚV's award-winning investigative current affairs show Kveikur. They discuss Monday's avalanches in…
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Episode 30 - EU AMBASSADOR TO ICELAND, LUCIE SAMCOVÁ-HALL ALLEN
Today on The RÚV English Podcast service, Darren's guest is the EU Ambassador to Iceland, Lucie Samcová-Hall Allen. Lucie tells Darren about her move to…
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Episode 29 - THE WEEK IN ICELAND: PARKING, MOBILES, DOGS & HAPPINESS
Today from The RÚV English Podcast service, a new episode of The Week In Iceland. Darren is joined by his RÚV colleague Birta Björnsdóttir to discuss new…
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Episode 28 - REYKJAVÍK'S STOCKFISH FILM FESTIVAL AT BÍÓ PARADÍS
March 23rd sees the launch of this year's Stockfish Film Festival at Reykjavík's iconic Bíó Paradís cinema. It is the film industry's festival in Iceland. It…
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Episode 27 - NEW ICELANDERS: HELEN BILLINGTON AND JUNE SCHOLTZ
Today on The RÚV English Podcast service, Darren talks to Helen Billington and June Scholtz. They've been friends for over thirty years, which is also how long…
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Episode 26 - AUÐSKILIÐ - Þór the walrus, easy to understand!
Where else could you so easily learn the Icelandic word for "walrus"?* Today on the RÚV English Podcast service, Atli and Darren look at the story of the…
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Episode 25 - NEW ICELANDER: ALEX TYAS, FROM YORKSHIRE TO ÍSAFJÖRÐUR
The thirst for knowledge took Alex Tyas from the UK to the Iceland, when eight years ago she signed up to study in the country's Westfjords. Happily, and…
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Episode 24 - CRICKET IN ICELAND - MORE POPULAR EVERY DAY
The Icelandic Cricket Association has nearly twice as many Twitter followers (@icelandcricket) as the Icelandic Prime Minister, so they must be doing something…
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Episode 23 - THE WEEK IN ICELAND: SONG, DEER, MASTS, STRIKES, ROADS
Today from The RÚV English Podcast service, a new episode of The Week In Iceland. Darren is joined by his RÚV Polski service colleague Margrét Adamsdóttir, to…
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Episode 22 - NEW ICELANDER: MEITING NEVÆH QIN
Today from The RÚV English Podcast service, a conversation with Meiting Nevæh Qin, Research & Development Project Manager at the Arctic Green Energy…
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Episode 21 - SÖNGVAKEPPNIN FINAL with host UNNSTEINN MANUEL STEFÁNSSON
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…
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Episode 20 - NEW ICELANDER: SHILPA KHATRI BABBAR
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…
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Episode 19 - THE WEEK IN ICELAND: ANDIE SOPHIA FONTAINE
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…
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EPISODE 18 - AUÐSKILIÐ: "easy to understand" Icelandic: "little auks"?
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…
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Episode 17 - REYKJAVÍK'S DOMESTIC AIRPORT
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…
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Episode 16 - WHAT'S THE EFLING AND SA DISPUTE ABOUT? AND WHO ARE THEY?
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…
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Episode 15 - THE WEEK IN ICELAND - KOLBEINN DALRYMPLE
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…
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Episode 14 - LOOKING BACK AT ÞORRI: ICELAND'S FOURTH WINTER MONTH
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…
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Episode 13 - AUÐSKILIÐ - EASY TO UNDERSTAND ICELANDIC: THE FLOODS
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…
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Episode 12 - NEW ICELANDER: ANTHONY BACIGALUPO & THE SHED
Anthony Bacigalupo fell in love with Iceland while visiting from his native California towards the end of the century's first decade. Then he fell in love…
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Episode 11 - THE WEEK IN ICELAND: MONEY, SEX, AIRPORTS, HEMP (& MUSIC)
Today on the RÚV English Podcast service, a new episode of The Week In Iceland. Darren is joined by music journalist Lydia Athanasopoulou from her home in…
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Episode 10 - DISPLACEMENT AT THE NORDIC HOUSE
Today on the RÚV English Podcast, Darren looks ahead to an event at the Nordic House on February 23, where four short films on the theme of displacement, home…
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Episode 9 - AUÐSKILIÐ: ICELANDERS NEAR AND FAR & THE CATS OF AKUREYRI
Here at the RÚV English Podcast we know how difficult it can be to learn Icelandic. Hearing it often, slowly and simply can be a great help. RÚV's Atli…
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Episode 8 - FOREIGN NEWS IN ENGLISH FROM THE "HEIMSKVIÐUR" TEAM
Every week, the foreign news desk here at RÚV produces a radio program, and a podcast, about foreign affairs and world events. The programme is called…
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Episode 7 - THE WEEK IN ICELAND: WEATHER, STRIKES, PLANES AND PHONES
The Week In Iceland continues as part of the new RÚV English Podcast service, and Darren's guest today is RÚV Foreign Correspondent Björn Malmquist. Darren and…
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Episode 6 - AN AWARD FOR AIRWAVES
Iceland Airwaves, the annual festival of live music from here and elsewhere, picked up the Best Indoor Festival award at the recent European Festival Awards in…
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Episode 5 - AUÐSKILIÐ (EASY TO UNDERSTAND!)
Here at the RÚV English Podcast we know how difficult it can be to learn Icelandic. Hearing it often, slowly and simply can be a great help. RÚV's Atli…
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Episode 4 - SIGGI, SÖNGVAKEPPNIN, AND THE ROAD TO EUROVISION
Last Saturday, the ten songs which will compete for the right to represent Iceland in this year's Eurovision Song Contest were unveiled on Lögin í…