The Faroe Islands Podcast

This week, we talk to three people from Uruguay who traveled to the Faroes to make an ad for a South American credit card. They'd heard of a Faroese man named Ivan who is a mad supporter of Uruguay's national football team and decided to feature him in their ad.

This week, we talk to a former CEO of Vagar Airport, the only airport in the Faroe Islands. We'll talk about the challenges of operating an airport in the Faroes, and about the change that is coming to the facility.

About once a year, we like to check in with the neighbors, namely Shetland and Orkney. The island groups are the closest neighbors to the Faroes, and they share a lot of history. So we talk to Tom Ordeman about his experiences in Orkney and how that culture compares to the Faroe Islands.

This week, we talk to Faroese musician/producer/DJ Brynjolfur. He's been a fixture in the Copenhagen electronic music scene for several years, but the past few months have seen his career really take off. We'll talk about his newfound success, being Faroese in Copehnagen, and the early days of the Faroese music scene in the late 1990s. Then we'll watch a family play on a chilly beach. Also an upda...

This week, we launch our second annual Kickstarter campaign. We're raising money to return to the Faroes to record more episodes of our award-winning podcast. If you like what you've heard over these past 200 shows or so, please head over to our Kickstarter page  and show us a little love.   And because we're still about having fun, we'll play a rowdy singalong from last summer's G! Festival.

This week, we search for an abandoned city called Famara and talk to the man who started living there. We'll hear about his utopian vision for Famara, and the Faroese government's attempts to remove him from the land. 

This week, we remember the final day of the 2013 G! Festival. We'll hear music from Hogni, Lover Lover, and a Faroese supergroup wearing gold lame suits. We'll also hear what is perhaps the silliest interview ever recorded with Teitir. It's all part of one of our most epically long podcast. Enjoy.

This week, we check out some of the action on day two of the G! Festival. We talk to people in hot tubs, row out to a boat reserved for VIPs and then settle in for some great music from Teitur, Eivor, and Brynjolfur.

This week, we take a look back at last year's G! Festival. We'll wander the festival grounds, talk to some old friends, and hear a little music from Marius, BYRTA and Frostfelt.

This week we talk to Birgir Kruse about the rapidly changing media landscape in the Faroe Islands. In less than a year, the biggest and oldest newspaper has closed, a brand new internet portal has started, a new radio station was born, and TV news took the summer off. Much to talk about in this episode. Then we'll head off to a village that is both so small and so industrialized that you may wonde...

This week, we talk to a German football coach who is in the Faroes, and we stand outside a very nice prison.

This week, we talk to Birgir Kruse about putting together a Faroese atlas of the world. (Spoiler alert: it's WAY more complicated than you'd imagine.)   Then we'll visit a village with not many people, but a lot of friendly ducks.

This week, we talk to Gutti Winther. He's a Faroese chef who is starring in a TV show highlighting food and tradition on all 18 of the Faroe Islands. Then we'll visit a village on the southern island, and check out the lineup for this year's Summer Festival.

This week, we learn about a major tunnel project in the Faroes that will connect Streymoy with two other islands. Then our good friend Heri Simonsen talks to an Englishman who is running a university in China and looking for a few good Faroese students. And finally, we take a windy walk to a place where people went to a lot of trouble to attend church.

This week, the second part of our conversation with Runi Nielsen, He's a Faroese conservationist and a leading voice advocating the and of Faroese whaling, We'll talk about the effectiveness of techniques used by foreign anti-whaling groups, and ask if whaling has any long-term furure in Faroese society. Then we'll head out into the rain for football (soccer) practice.

This week, we talk to Runi Nielsen. He's a conservationist and probably the leading Faroese voice speaking out against whaling in his country. Then we'll hear some music from the first five artists announced for this year's G! Festival.

On this very special edition of the podcast, we observe two landmarks. First: this week marks our 5th birthday. It also is the 200th episode of the show. So this week, we do a little of everything. We'll revisit some of our favorite moments of the past 100 shows, we'll remember the crazy early days of the show, and we'll talk to a Danish man who is visiting every country in the world. We'll also u...

Here's a little something to keep you company while we work on our 200th episode. We're revisiting one of our most popular episodes where we visit what some say is the most beautiful football (soccer) pitch in the world. We'll also leak some information about the tour we're leading to the Faroe Islands this summer.

This week, we celebrate Christmas, Faroe Islands Podcast style. First, a portion of an interview Heri Simonsen did with podcast host Matthew Workman on Ras 2. We'll talk about Christmas, music, and a certain reality TV program. Then we'll delve into the giant mailbox on Sandoy. In 2012, we made fun of the mailbox, and questioned whether it even counted as a mailbox at all. This week, Jogvan Thomse...

This week, we talk to Benjamin Hansen. He's not quite 17, but he's already started a film and video studio that employs five people. We'll talk to him about how he got such an early start on filmmaking, and who the small island he's from is suddenly a hotbed of video arts. Then we go out for sushi.

This week we talk to Ray Maseman. He's an American artist who spent a month this summer in the Faroe Islands as part of a program called the Arctis Exchange. We talk to Ray about his experience of creating art far from home, and how his new surroundings are inspiring him. Then we listen to a billboard that isn't making any noise.

This week, we hike up a grassy hill by the sea and talk to Gemma Veneruso of Faroe Islands Whale Watch. Her group was in the Faroes this summer doing a survey of marine mammals that passed the Faroes. Then we check in on the plight of four sperm whales trapped in shallow Faroese waters.

This week, we stumble upon some sheep shearing on Suduroy. So, you know, we're talking sheep. And stay tuned afterwards for a bonus story about an American soccer club and their rabid fans.

This week, part two of our conversation with Faroese comedian and politician Sjurdur Skaale. We'll talk to him about serving in the Danish Parliament, and what Danes think of the Faroe Islands. He'll also make the case for the Faroe Islands joining the EU. Then we join Atlantic Airways CEO Magni Arge for a tour of Torshavn.

In honor of Halloween, we replay our spookiest episode ever from 2010 where we record what just might be ghosts in the tunnels north of Klaksvik. Then we return to the tunnels three years later to see if the ghosts will give a repeat performance.