Rådhuspladsen

This guide to Radhuspladsen in Copenhagen looks behind the ornate facade of the city hall on the square to Jens Olsen, a self-taught clockmaker who spent decades calculating the exact motion of the sun, moon and stars for a machine he would build to mirror them. You'll hear how his calculations were finished by 1928, how construction stretched through the difficult 1940s, and how Olsen died in 1945 without ever seeing the clock run. It follows the craftsmen who carried the project forward in his place, up to the crowded day a king finally switched it on.