DR, Denmark’s small public service broadcaster, has produced monster hits including The Killing, Borgen and The Bridge. Raymond Snoddy asks how they have pulled this off – and after hearing the organisation’s director of cultural affairs talk at IBC in Amsterdam, finds the answers are both extreme and surprising.
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