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A lot can happen in the middle of nowhere. Take a trip to the most northerly town on the planet for this gripping docu-soap charting the real-life highs and lows of its quirky inhabitants.

The 10x 1 hour series is set in the town of Longyearbyen, an isolated outpost in the breathtaking wilderness of the Svalbard archipelago, halfway between Norway and Greenland. As well as its mining business, Svalbard houses the global seed vault and is at the centre of worldwide research into polar bears, climatology and glaciology. As a result it is home to a unique expat community made up of 46 different nationalities. With extreme arctic conditions, three months of total darkness and the ever-present danger of polar bears, this is not your average neighbourhood - and these are certainly not your average characters!

What can I say, some of my most memorable filming experiences happened here during the 9 months I worked in this jaw dropping place. Travelling over endless glaciers and snowfields by snowmobile, the extreme cold, aurora, polar bears, but also tragedy, mountain top church services, tattoo parlours, jazz festivals, a school concert to celebrate the return of the sun and lots of humour!