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Podcast 307: Happy Birthday, Elin

Photo Credit: Kai Bergmann, Pi Performance PhotographyThis week, we sample the sounds from Elin Brimheim Heinesen's 60th birthday party. It was a wonderful night where everyone was asked to bring a...

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Podcast 310: Closed for Maintenance

Credit: Visit Faroe IslandsThis week, we talk about why some of the Faroe Islands' biggest tourist attractions were closed last weekend, and why 100 volunteers thought the best way to spend a vacation...

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Podcast 309: G! Festival 2018, Part 1

Credit: Pi Performance PhotographyOn this podcast, we review some of the sights and sounds from the 2018 G! Festival. In the first part of our preview, we visit the new town hall near the festival site...

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Fundraising Time Again

We're headed back to the Faroe Islands to record more episodes of this podcast, and we need just a little help from you. We've set up a gofundme page and we're asking you to toss a little something...

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Podcast 311: G! Festival 2018, Part 2

Credit: Pi Performance PhotographyOn this episode, we look at the changes made at the G! Festival over the past several years. They've opened new stages, changed concessions, found an ingenious way to...

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Bonus Podcast: St. Kodiak

On this bonus episode of the podcast, we listen to some music from Saint Kodiak. He's a Danish-Faroese singer who left the music business 15 years ago, but returned after being inspired by a hike in...

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Podcast 313: Live! At the G! Festival 2019!

Photo credit: Pi Performance PhotographyThis is the one you've been waiting for. It's our special live show we recorded at this year's G! Festival. We'll talk to filmmaker Andrias Høgenni about his...

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Podcast 314: Darius Lewis in the Faroe Islands

This week, we catch up with Darius Lewis, the American striker playing for KI Klaksvik. When we last spoke in January, Lewis was preparing to move from his home in Florida to the Faroe Islands. Now...

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Podcast 315: Dan Olsen

On this podcast, we talk to singer/songwriter Dan Olsen about how he went from football (soccer) to music and then from the Faroes to Austrailia to London. We'll also her a sample of his new song,...

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Podcast 316: Volleyball, Volunteerism, and Vexing Trees

This week's podcast features an interview with Sandra Brunke, she's a woman from Germany who helps volleyball players from around the world find placement at colleges in places like the USA and Canada....

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Introducing: Home and Away

Home and Away is a show that documents the life of foreigners in the Faroe Islands. On each show, host Stella Zachariassen, a Faroese woman of Sri Lankan descent, talks to someone who immigrated to the...

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Podcast 317: Let's Play Gekkur

Photo Credit: KVF.FOOn this week's show, we play Gekkur. It's kind like a national lottery mixed with bingo, mixed with Dialing for Dollars, mixed with a PBS pledge drive. Is it confusing? Yep. Are...

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Home and Away, Episode 2. Gina Thomsen of Peru

On this episode of Home and Away, Stella talks to Gina Thomsen of Peru. Thomsen moved to the Faroe Islands ten years ago. We'll hear how she's coping with the cold, learning Faroese, and why she was...

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Podcast 318: Like Water Through the Bassalt Pebbles...

On this episode, we talk to a athlete from Serbia about her time playing Volleyball in the Faroe Islands.Then we sit on a beach on Sandoy and listen as the waves break and drain through the stones....

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Podcast 323: Elin Sings, Remote Tourism, and Life Under Lockdown.

On this week's podcast, we get an update on the COVID-19 infection numbers in the Faroe Islands and listen to a coronavirus-themed opera. (You can watch that opera here.) For more information about the...

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Podcast 325: In The Studio With SAKARIS

On this podcast, we talk to SAKARIS. SAKARIS is a Faroese composer, producer, and musician living in Iceland. For the past two months, he's been going into the studio and allowing people to watch as he...

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Podcast 236: Tourism in the Time of Corona

Credit: Kristin Vang/Visit Faroe IslandsThis week, we talk to Guðrið Højgaard, who is the Director of Visit Faroe Islands. These are strange times for people who promote tourism. Borders are closed,...

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Podcast 327: Svinoy

This week, we take a small ferry to a small island to talk to the proprietor of the only retail establishment of any kind on the island of Svinoy. We'll learn how he and his wife left the "big city" of...

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Podcast 329: Island Games, Gibraltar

On this podcast, we talk about the Island Games, a bi-annual sporting event for small island nations. Heri Simonsen will recap how the Faroe Islands team did in the 2019 games in Gibraltar, and give...

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Podcast 330: G! Festival 2020... Really!

 During these pandemic times, everything is cancelled. This includes the 2020 G! Festival. So this podcast includes our coverage of the 2020 G! Festival, which was cancelled, but kind of happened. To...

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Podcast 331: Faroe Pride, Then and Now

 In 2012, LGBT Foroyar organized a Pride march. They told people they were going to get 1,000 people on the streets of Torshavn to march for gay rights. If you turned off your microphone, organizers...

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Podcast 332: Checking In With The Neighbors, 2020

 Every once in a while, we like to check in with the neighbors. In this case, the neighbors are Orkney, and the person we're talking to is Tom Ordeman. Tom hosts the Bruck Podcast, which is about many...

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Podcast 333: Whisky a Go-Go!

  View this post on InstagramA post shared by Rúni Nielsen (@cruisarin) On this podcast, we talk all about whisky, or whiskey, depending on how you roll. Runi Nielsen is a well known Faroese activist,...

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Podcast 334: Of Monuments and Men

 On this podcast, we share two stories. First, it's a trip to a giant mailbox (pictured above, left). Many years ago, this podcast slagged off this mailbox on account of the fact that it's not an...

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Podcast 338: Transplanted: Immigrant Stories.

 On this podcast, we talk to Joel Cole. He's an artist born in America who now lives in the Faroe Islands. Cole has just completed a collection of sculptures inspired by the stories and lives of...

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