Søren Ryge Petersen is a Danish television presenter, journalist, and writer.

[3] Petersen began working for the Danish national broadcasting corporation DR in 1977,[3] and in 1988 got his own show on DR television: DR Derude ("Out There"), a gardening programme in which a camera crew followed him around his own garden at Djursland as he demonstrated how he looked after it and talked about the flowers and crop plants it contained.

[5] In 1992, the programme went live under the name of DR Derude Direkte, later renamed Søren Ryge.

[3] Edition number 100 was broadcast on 6 August 2008 and presented a series of clips from the earlier shows.

As well as DR Derude, Søren Ryge Petersen has made a series of other programmes for DR,[5] presenting the nature of the world and its people, with particular emphasis on the portrayal of people living simple lives.