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Today on the show, our America at Age 250 series

tackles the 1980s and 90s,

and why mosquitoes might not be repelled by repellent.

First up, though.

... First up, though.

Denmark's Roskilde Festival is kicking off this June,

and the musical line-up there is as international as ever.

Tom Wainwright is our media editor.

It features The Cure from Britain, Addison Ray from America,

Jenny from Black Pink, which is from South Korea, and loads of other worldwide acts from Australia's folk bitch trio to the Pilly Pilly Pilly Girls of Tanzania. But if you eavesdrop on

the private playlists of Danish festival goes, you might hear a more local soundtrack.

The country's most streamed song of last year, Hele Wein, or All the Way, was by Omar and Umla, a pair of Danish artists.

And in fact, nine of the top ten tracks in Denmark in 2025 were by Danes, belting out lyrics in Danish.

It might seem surprising that in a world of global stars, a country of just six million people, many of them fluent in English,

listen mainly to homegrown music. and until fairly recently they didn't.

In 2019, when artists like Ed Sheeran and Lady Gaga were riding high in the charts,

only four songs in Denmark's top 20 were in Danish.

By last year, that figure was 18.

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