Podcast: BLAAdcast
- a podcast by and about Blaafarveværket
BLAAdcast is a podcast created by the Modum Blaafarveværk Foundation. Through this podcast, you can learn more about a key player in Norway's economic, technological and social history. You'll also hear everything you need to know about several of Norway's more - or less - famous artists, including our beloved Theodor Kittelsen. Listen and be enlightened!
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Episodes:
- Episode 1 - The story of miner Ingebrigt Opsahl, from the Blaafarveværket archive in the National Archives.
- Episode 2 - Over 120 years of history in under an hour!
- Episode 3 - Who was Mathilde Dietrichson? A podcast about the artist we show at Blaafarveværket 2020
- Episode 4 - When cholera came to Blaafarveværket
- Episode 5 - Cobalt mines - Who, what, where and why?
- Episode 6 - Plastering
- Episode 7 - How did the cobalt pigment come about?
- Episode 8 - The company doctor and healthcare at Blaafarveværket.
- Episode 9 - The dummies at Blaafarveværket
- Episode 10 - The great mining accident, part 1
- Episode 11 - The great mining accident, part 2
- Episode 12 - The cobalt bomb
- Episode 13 - Arsenic
- Episode 14 - Malmveien
- Episode 15 - School history
- Episode 16 - Shame
- Episode 17 - When the huldra came back again! Curator Sverre Følstad on huldras in art
- Episode 18 - Snarum cobalt plant
- Episode 19 - The walls of death, part 1
- Episode 20 - The walls of death, part 2
- Episode 21 - Art exhibition at Blaafarveværket 2023 - a conversation between director Tone Sinding Steinsvik and curator Sverre Følstad
- Episode 22 - All the speeches from the 2023 season opener.
- Episode 23 - Arsenic in food
- Episode 24 - Bad management
- Episode 25 - Aaserud cobalt mine
- Episode 26 - All the speeches from the 2024 season opener
- Episode 27 - The insulted doctor
- Episode 28 - The paper, textile and starch industry - the blue colour industry's most important customer base?
- Episode 29 - The strategic importance of cobalt
- Episode 30 - Blue colour theft
- Episode 31 - Blaafarveværket and alcohol
You can also read our stories from the archive.
Participation in other podcasts
When talking about trolls:
Live podcast recorded at the Kittelsen Museum, September 2022. Lasse H. Bjørnland, Sverre Følstad and Tone S. Steinsvik were guests in the episode titled: Folktro om gruvor och samtal om Theodor Kittelsen.
Listen to the episode here!
Recommended:
In May 2023, we were invited to be a guest on Kristopher Schau's podcast "Rekommandert". Museum educator Lasse H. Bjørnland was a guest in the episode, which was recorded live at Union Scene in Drammen.
Listen to the full episode here!
Also listen to the follow-up call here - where a new episode in 2024 is agreed.
In March 2024, Lasse was the guest in a new episode. This time with the theme "Toxic wallpaper". This was also recorded live, this time at Kometen in Drammen.
Listen to the episode here!
The elements
In the summer of 2024, we had a visit from the team behind the podcast "Grunnstoffene". They are Gunstein Skomedal from UiA, Ole Martin Løvvik from Sintef and UiO and Birte Runde from the Eyde cluster. They joined our historian Lasse H. Bjørnland both in the Cobalt mines and around the Blaafarve mill. This resulted in a total of three episodes.
Main episode: Cobalt the blue gold from Modum
Bonus episode: We make cobalt blue
Bonus episode 2: Exciting stories from the Cobalt Mines