In our fourth episode Iceland News talks to the very genial Bob Cluness – a Scotsman living in Iceland. He’s been there since 2007 after marrying an Icelander. We talk about life, the kreppa, a volcano and learn how to get started with the Icelandic music scene. Cluness works for prosthetic limb company Ossur by day. By night he’s also writing for the Reykjavik Grapevine and his new blog: The Reykjavik Sex Farm.

In our third episode, Iceland News talks to Guðrún Helga Sigurðardóttir.
She runs her own mountain climbing business from Reykjavik, Mountainclimbing.is. Guðrún Helga is also a freelance journalist who had an opportunity to fly into the ash cloud to report on the recent volcanic eruption.
Guðrún Helga maintains a blog: Travels in Iceland

In the second episode of the Iceland News podcast we talk to the director of Iceland’s music history museum, Bjarki Sveinbjornsson.
We find out about what the museum does and means for the country as well as finding out about Sveinbjornsson’s many trips to North America to record Icelandic music history there.

In our first episode Iceland News talks to Carrie Simmons. She’s a Canadian of Icelandic descent and she’ll be returning to Iceland for the first time this summer to run in the Reykjavik marathon. We find out what it’s like to grow up in Canada with such a background and her trips to Gimli, Manitoba, as a youngster (home to the largest concentration of people of Icelandic ancestry outside Iceland).

It’s the first demo podcast for Iceland News. Jim talks with Icelanders Heidur and Marta about McDonald’s leaving Iceland. Recorded 30-10-2009.

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