DR’s radio program Sara & Monopolet recorded a special episode inside Ganløse Mølle this week, 20 years after the show called the town a hole in the ground.
DR reports that the program left its usual studio because DR’s facilities are being renovated. The temporary location was Ganløse Mølle, the old mill that serves as the landmark of Ganløse in Egedal Municipality.
Host Sara Bro led the recording, joined by author Sara Blædel, musician Mads Langer and film director and cartoonist Anders Morgenthaler. According to DR, the panel opened by replaying audio from the 2006 broadcast that mocked the town.
The 2006 episode, then called Mads & Monopolet, dealt with a couple who had moved from Lyngby to Ganløse. The husband missed Lyngby and said the only people he met in town were pensioners at the bakery. On air, the town was described as a hole in the ground.
Local resident Claus Dindler brought the program to Ganløse. Per DR, he is 73 and has lived in the town for 48 years. When he heard that the show needed a recording location, he wrote and offered the mill.
Dindler had nothing to do with the original dilemma beyond living in the town. As reported by DR, the verdict became a running joke among his friends, and a colleague once called to ask where Ganløse even was. He has waited 20 years for what he describes as redemption.
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Sjællandske Nyheder reported on September 18, 2026 that the program’s visit amounts to the village taking revenge for the old broadcast. The outlet repeated the remarks made about the town in 2006.
The panel’s reaction in the mill was different this time. Blædel has eaten at Ganløse Kro several times, and Langer has used the village pond as a backdrop for a photograph. Morgenthaler said he could imagine living in the mill itself.
Sara Bro noted during the recording that the drive from Copenhagen takes only 23 minutes. She said she had never visited the town before. The episode will be available through the program’s podcast feed and on P4.
The mill is owned and maintained jointly by a group of local residents. Dindler has been part of that group since 1989, and his daughter joined two and a half years ago. DR reports that the building hosts Friday bars, Saturday lunches, parties and lectures.
A sewing club at the mill makes tote bags from fabric donated by townspeople. The couple behind the 2006 dilemma also responded to the program. They wrote that they stayed in Ganløse for almost a year before moving back to Lyngby, where both had grown up.
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The woman who submitted the original dilemma told the program she has nothing bad to say about Ganløse. She described it instead as a lovely place. Dindler pointed to the community as the reason he stayed.
