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By Tiffany Murray. Hulda takes a tour party to Iceland’s largest boiling mud pool.

By Tiffany Murray. Hulda Björnsdóttir takes a tour party to Gunnuhver, Iceland’s largest boiling mud pool. Starring Rachael Stirling.

Five tales from Grindavik, a place of volcanoes and earthquakes, and apparently the happiest town in Iceland. Starring Rachel Stirling.

The lobster soup served in Hulda’s Café has won awards. But winning soup-making contests is only one of Hulda Björnsdóttir’s many talents - which also include tour-guiding, welding whale sculptures and generally trying to hold the town together.

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Hulda Björnsdóttir takes a tour party to Gunnuhver, Iceland’s largest boiling mud pool.

Tiffany Murray is the author of the novels Diamond Star Halo, Happy Accidents and Sugar Hall. Her fourth book, The Girl Who Talked to Birds, will be set in Iceland. She is completing a memoir, 'My Family and Other Rock Stars', about growing up with Queen and Black Sabbath sleeping in your house. The story Lava! Lava! Lava!, which also has a Grindavik setting, was broadcast on Radio 4 in 2021.

Writer: Tiffany Murray
Reader: Rachael Stirling
Sound Recordist: Paul Clark
Sound Design: Jon Calver
Production Coordinator: Sarah Tombling
Producer: Jeremy Osborne

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By Tiffany Murray. Five tales from Grindavik, the happiest town in Iceland, apparently.

By Tiffany Murray. Five tales from Grindavik, a place of volcanoes and earthquakes, and apparently, the happiest town in Iceland. Read by Rachel Stirling.

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