Listen to a short story by Sally Salminen in either English or Danish!

Why does Danish TV drama travel around the world? Pia Majbritt Jensen and Ushma Chauhan Jacobsen from Aarhus University discuss the reasons given by audiences in eight different countries and learn about the three-leaf clover method and how it helped explain their findings - and also how consumer goods like television series circulate around the world.

Listen to an overview of nordic crime fiction in either English or Danish!

Listen to 'A brief history of Sámi literature' in English or Finnish! This podcast is part of a series where existing material on nordics.info is read out in assorted languages by colleagues and friends. Great for learning Finnish or English. / Tämä podcast-jakso on nimeltään 'Lyhyt historia saamelaisesta kirjallisuudesta' ja se on käännös sivustolla julkaistusta samannimisestä artikkelista ”A brief history of Sami literature”. Jakso nauhoitettiin Århusin yliopistossa tammikuussa 2020 ja sen lukee Tuuli Veikkanen.

From the outside, it is assumed that the populations of the Nordic countries are fairly homogeneous and that there is a relatively high level of gender equality and acceptance of different sexualities and diversity. In short, identity is not much of a problem. On closer examination, however, there are similar tendencies to elsewhere, such as more entrenched identities that can be both inclusive and exclusive. Feelings of identity can give a sense of belonging, or potentially lead to polarisation between different groups. Nevertheless, ‘Nordic’ identity does, at least to some extent, appear to happily co-exist with those of the five nation states (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden) as well as other layers of identity.