Producer Alan Hall In programme three we visit the Oresund Bridge-Tunnel between Denmark and Sweden. Opened to the public ten years ago, this feature examines a bridge that has forged a connection between two countries with a difficult past. We hear the personal stories of relationships between the Swedes in Scania and the Danes in Zealand inspired by this complex amphibian structure; stories of love, labour, language and the attempt to forge a new unified identity.

Press

"[...] The portrait of the structure was also atmospheric rather than drily factual, with much time given over to the soundscape surrounding it. You could hear the motorway below; the traffic becoming a distant sheet of windy sound from higher up the bridge; the contained rattle of the lift taking people up to the bridge's highest point.

Most interesting was the social impact of the 10-year old bridge, connecting historically contested territories. Old hostilities and rivalries were mentioned by some (one Danish academic described Lund University as having been built to "domesticate, civilise and Swedify the Danes"), but mostly there was a sense of stereotypes weakening with each crossing."

Elisabeth Mahoney, The Guardian, 26.07.10