Episode 40
Éric Viudès
Dancing to leave. Building a life to stay.
At 14, Éric leaves Biarritz for the Paris Conservatoire. At 21, he arrives in Oslo on a three-month contract. Forty years later, Norway is still home.
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Language & cultures
Learning a language, discovering unwritten rules and living across cultures. Conversations about words, identity and meeting people in Norway.
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19 conversations
Episode 39
Silje Moss
Returning to Norway after eleven years in France
At 19, Silje (@norskmedsilje) leaves Bergen to spend a year in Montpellier. She ends up staying in France for more than a decade.
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Episode 38
Anaïs
From Dublin to Bodø: falling in love with a country
Years later, a relationship takes her to Bodø in northern Norway. When it ends, Anaïs returns to Ireland for a while. But she soon realises something: Norway…
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Episode 35
Christine Bazalgette Holst
Leaving for six months. Staying forty-five years.
She expects to stay a few months. Then comes work, a sense of familiarity, children, everyday life… and six months turn into forty-five years.
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Episode 31
Olga
Growing up in France, returning to Norway
She tells us about her life between two countries, two languages and two ways of living.
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Episode 30 · Part 2
Jonathan Spaggiari
Selling and buying a home in Norway
Jonathan shares his experience as an estate agent: preparing a property, gathering documents, arranging the condition survey and photography, then listing it and taking bids. He also…
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Jonathan Spaggiari
Growing up between cultures
In this first part, we talk about identity, language, family and a less familiar side of Norway: the north, its traditions, everyday habits and unexpected details.
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Episode 25
Ilys
From school anxiety to a new life
We meet Ilys, who was 25 when we recorded this conversation. French-Norwegian at heart, she is an entrepreneur and creates content about learning Norwegian. She shares her…
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Episode 21 · Part 1
Thomas Bassetto
Becoming Norwegian, representing the French
In this first part, Thomas Bassetto shares how he came to Norway “by chance”, why he now feels more Norwegian than French, and what working in Norwegian…
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Thomas Bassetto
Behind the scenes of Norway’s French-speaking community
In this second part, Thomas Bassetto talks about his role as an elected representative for French citizens living in Norway, his involvement in the French-speaking community and…
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Episode 16
Anne-Sophie Drouet
Une Blonde en Norvège: from blogging to television
Anne-Sophie, creator of Une Blonde en Norvège, shares her journey from falling for Norway’s landscapes to actually moving here: early financial setbacks, the difficulty of finding work…
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Anne-Sophie Drouet
Building a business and exploring Norway
Anne-Sophie, who created Une Blonde en Norvège, returns for the second part of her story. Starting as an editor, she learned to film, worked on live broadcasts…
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