Episode 231 - WHY THE COUNTRY STOPS FOR ÁRAMÓTASKAUPIÐ

Every New Year's Eve at 10.20pm, Iceland pauses the fireworks and the partying and sits glued to Áramótaskaupið on RÚV.

It's a show which satirises the year just gone.

Darren talks to RÚV's head of TV Skarphéðinn Guðmundsson about why it is true to say that literally the whole country watches the show.

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