Iceland Weekly News Roundup

About Iceland Weekly News Roundup

The Reykjavík Grapevine's Iceland Roundup is a weekly news oriented podcast show hosted by a rotating cast of staff members and hangers on, with special expert guests. Highlighting the broad strokes of Icelandic news and the local views. For more about life, travel and entertainment in Iceland, go to www.grapevine.is If you want to show support to The Reykjavík Grapevine and/or this podcast, go to support.grapevine.is

Publisher

The Reykjavík Grapevine

Category

news · news · news

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

8 Mar 2022

Latest episode

8 Jul 2026

Latest episodes

97 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   8 Jul 2026

   Iceland Roundup #E66: Drugs, Whales, Ivanka Trump & Human Trafficking

   Are you enjoying this? Are you not? Tell us what to do more of, and what you'd like to hear less of. The Reykjavík Grapevine's Iceland Roundup brings you the top news with a healthy dash of local views. In this episode, Grapevine publisher Jón Trausti Sigurðarson is joined by Heimildin journalist Aðalsteinn Kjartansson, and Grapevine friend and contributor Sindri Eldon to roundup the stories making headlines in recent weeks. On the docket this week are: The New App: Icebreaker The Re...

2. 

   8 Jun 2026

   Spying, Housing, Farming, Waterfalling & Bubbing

   Are you enjoying this? Are you not? Tell us what to do more of, and what you'd like to hear less of. The Reykjavík Grapevine's Iceland Roundup brings you the top news with a healthy dash of local views. In this episode, Grapevine publisher Jón Trausti Sigurðarson is joined by Grapevine’s Editor-in-Chief Bart Cameron, and Grapevine friend and contributor Sindri Eldon to roundup the stories making headlines in recent weeks. On the docket this week are: The Russian Spying Vessel Yuri Ivanov W...

3. 

   8 Jun 2026

   Dead Poets, Earthquakes, Mr. “Snow” And AI Layoffs

   Are you enjoying this? Are you not? Tell us what to do more of, and what you'd like to hear less of. The Reykjavík Grapevine's Iceland Roundup brings you the top news with a healthy dash of local views. In this episode, Grapevine publisher Jón Trausti Sigurðarson is joined by Grapevine’s Editor-in-Chief Bart Cameron, and Grapevine friend and contributor Sindri Eldon to roundup the stories making headlines in recent weeks. On the docket this week are: Should Iceland’s National Poet, Jón...

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

YouTube views

16,499,319

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.8 / 5

17 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 57 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

56

Social presence

0

YouTube

93

Engagement

51

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