Award winning broadcaster Lesley Riddoch joins us to chat about her new film Denmark: the State of Happiness. The film is currently on tour all around Scotland with a Q+A session with Lesley at each screening. For details of dates, times, venues and to book tickets, go to www.lesleyriddoch.com/events It is also now available on youtube here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTJnu6lAhvM This is the 5th film in Lesley's series looking at the Nordic countries, you can find all her other films at lesleyriddoch.com/films Key themes include: 00:00:54 Dan Jorgensen - happiness is important 00:01:46 Welcome to Lesley 00:02:41 Losing an empire 00:06:00 Audience reactions 00:11:15 Not just for indy supporters 00:17:39 Danish Education system 00:18:20 Larissa Albus - taxes are a good thing 00:20:56 Jannick Marshall - Efterskole 00:24:12 Samso islanders fuel bills cut 00:26:40 cause for optimism? 00:30:24 national self confidence 00:32:23 issues based conversations 00:33:30 cultural summer school and other ideas 00:40:53 the future for indy media Also mentioned in our discussion is Independence Centre Stage from our Mibbes Aye series which you can watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58gDBM8QBDA or check out our website here https://scottishindypod.scot/all-scottish-independence-podcasts-episodes/independence-centre-stage/ The Scottish Independence Podcasts team produce a NEW podcast episode every Friday search for Scottish Independence Podcasts wherever you get your podcasts. Remember to like and subscribe! Contact Us: indypodcasters@gmail.com Visit our website https://scottishindypod.scot/ for blogposts, newsletter signup and more episodes Subscribe to our Youtube channel @scottishindypodExtra for more of our video footage and clips Music: "Inspired" by Kevin MacLeod