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- The smartest cultural minds tackle big and small issues from the past week. Enlightening and fun talk, radiant debate, intellectual deep dives and complete nonsense.
- Prejudice and Pride is a rainbow colored roller coaster ride through a stunning collection of films. From Mauritz Stiller's filming of the world's first gay romance in 1916 to Sweden's exciting new wave of Scandinavian transgender films.
- A "road movie" about the French composer Hector Berlioz (1803-1869) who walks from Naples to Rome in 1831. In the company of two Swedish officers, he experiences beautiful views, gets fleas, drinks sour wine and dances the night away. The program is based on Berlioz's symphony "Harold in Italy", his memoirs and Carl Stephan Bennett's travel diary. The Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra is conducted by Manfred Honeck.
- The recording of the five-part YV-series "Dramaten - the House of Dreams" began in the summer of 2002, when Staffan Valdemar Holm has just take over as CEO/Artist Leader at the Swedish national theatre. Mikael Sahlin and Åsa Hamelius did spend a whole year at Dramaten to give viewers a hint about how it is to create theatre. They follow the work of a play from the translator's first glance at the original script to the edgy moment when the curtain rises on the premiere.
- The film is structured as Franz Kafka's own memory walk through his life, while he lies dying of tuberculosis in a sanatorium outside Vienna.
- For many years was Sven Markelius one of Swedens most radical architecture. But the only interview that exist are done by Anders Wahlgren. So this documentary are so e from this tapes where Wallgren describes his his life's work
- No one compares to Ulf Lundell when it comes to productivity and versatility. For almost half a century, he has been relevant both as an artist, songwriter and as a writer.
- "God also loves the pre-art. See man." - The poet who writes for pub scenes as well as for Dramaten. About weight and dizziness in an artistry that is related to both Evert Taube and Hjalmar Bergman. ew of theater has aroused criticism.
- "The Fatherland" - a quick comic review of what and who was talked about in the kingdom of Sweden.
- Inga Landgré, one of Swedens greatest film actors, is now 93 years old. Inga has a dream, she wants to see Greece again, the place where she felt most alive during her life. Inga's friend Fanny accompanies her on the journey. It will not only be an adventure and a loving reunion of Greece, the trip also provides space for a conversation between two women from two generations. A conversation where the past and the life Inga lived are reminded over and over again.
- Swedish film critic Nils Petter Sundgren meet Jerry Lewis for a talk about the restart of his movie career. Also about Jerry Lewis unfinished project "The Day the Clown Cried" recorded partly in Sweden.
- Trio CMB (Carl Michael Bellman) perform epistles, and songs by the Swedish songwriter, composer, musician, poet and entertainer.
- The host Anne Lundberg visits chefs in exciting environments.
- Gerd Andersson and Ellen Rasch are both prima ballerinas who now look back on their rich dance lives and their collaborations with various choreographers.
- There was a time when clothes were made in Sweden. The industry had its heart in the Sjuhärad region, and was largely made up of women. Today, the Swedish textile industry is virtually wiped out.
- Alf Sjöberg (1903-1980) was Swedens greatest theater director of the 20th century and as a film director the first of international importance since the silent film era. He won the Grand Prix du Festival at the Cannes Film Festival twice.
- Many Swedes have driven past the hotel next to the motorway north of Norrköping and wondered what was inside. Does anyone live there? Well; Hotel director Maria grew up at Stenkullen and today runs it all by herself.
- To decorate a vision? The United Nations and art. The UN headquarters in Manhattan, New York is home to one of the world's finest art collections from its member states. Here you can find works by artists such as Pablo Picasso, Barbara Hepworth, Henri Matisse and Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd. During his last fall as UN Deputy Secretary General, Jan Eliasson opens the headquarters for SVT's Ann Victorin and also shows the parts that are not open to the public. Nordic countries have made a big impression here. Ten of the world's most famous architects designed the houses, and the Swede Sven Markelius was one of them. Dag Hammarskjöld refined the art collection and chose works of art that would fit the UN's vision of a world at peace.
- In his youth, Sonja Pleijel's grandfather washed gold in the middle of Borneo's primeval forests. After 28 years in the Dutch East Indies, the maternal grandfather returned to Sweden together with Sonja's Javanese grandmother Caroline. The grandmother never talked about her past. It was as if it had never existed, and when Sonja traveled in Indonesia a few years ago, she began to search for answers to her questions about her: Who was she - the little brown girl, the young woman - who would become Sonja's enigmatic grandmother?
- Per Jonsson (1956-1998), the Swedish dancer and choreographer who became one of the central figures in modern dance and who enchanted his audience. About Per's big dreams, genius, dark sides and relation to natural mysticism.
- We visit the homes of six Swedish interior architects and look into their own inspiring and unique homes. It's about colors, materials and furniture, about beauty and coziness when the interior designers share their best tips and tricks.
- A different close conversation between different people, women and men.
- A walk in the world of poetry among lyricists and bards of distinction.
- Birgit Åkesson (1908-2001) was a Swedish a dancer, choreographer and dance researcher. She was one of the leading figures in European avant-garde dance.
- A glamourous praise to the recycling process and the cycle of life. It takes place at a scrapyard. Reflections in the metal dance around and tell us that there is a second life ahead for the hard bent material. Absurd, full of subtle humour and beautiful images from the scrapyard, we see the workers and the dancers co-starring in this Scrap cabaret. Small scrap babies are born, getting older and later reach full bloom as scrap queens.
- "A book, an Author" - about all kinds of literature by Swedes or in Swedish.
- Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893-1930) was a Russian and Soviet poet, playwright, artist, and actor. At age 15 he joined the Russian Social-Democratic Workers' Party and was repeatedly jailed for subversive activity. He started to write poetry during solitary confinement in 1909. On his release he attended the Moscow Art School and joined, with David Burlyuk and a few others, the Russian Futurist group and soon became its leading spokesman. In 1912 the group published a manifesto, Poshchochina obshchestvennomu vkusu ("A Slap in the Face of Public Taste"), and Mayakovsky's poetry became conspicuously self-assertive and defiant in form and content.
- Culture monitoring of Sweden.
- A behind-the-scenes film about the filming of "Pretty Baby" (1978) directed by Louis Malle. At the Columns Hotel - 3811 St Charles Avenue, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, with some of the participants of the project.
- A six-part series featuring the great composers. Hans Pålsson plays and speculates about some of the "classic gems" of piano literature and their creators.
- Meet one of Sweden's most secret singer/songwriters. Admired by artists like Per Gessle, Ulf Lundell and Marie Fredriksson. In the 1970s John Holm released - Sordin, Lagt kort ligger and Veckans affärer - three critically acclaimed albums.
- A six-part series about houses and cities in Europe.
- The Uniqueness of the Dance - told and interpreted by Swedish dancer, choreographer, and dance researcher Birgit Åkesson.
- An adventurous journey in the wake of the green poison. From Strindberg's Paris to contemporary Absinthe worshipers in San Fransisco. It's popularity grew steadily through the 1840s, when it was given to French troops as a malaria preventive, and the troops brought home their taste for it. Absinthe became so popular in bars, bistros, cafés, and cabarets by the 1860s that the hour of 5 pm was called l'heure verte ("the green hour"). By 1910 the French were drinking 36 million litres per year. The Netherlands banned it in 1909, Switzerland in 1910, the United States in 1912, and France in 1914. It began to reappear during a revival in the 1990s in countries where it was never banned.
- About the Finnish/Swedish poet, author, playwright, editor and filmmaker Gösta Ågren (1936-2020). "Our childhood home in the village of Lippjärv was intellectually active: everyone read books and discussed them."
- Alf Robertson (1941-2008) was a Swedish country singer and composer who produced 50 albums and about 150 songs during his lifetime. He moved to Nashville in 1971 to learn the trade for real.
- "Music - a must !?" A series about the importance and existence of music hosted by Niklas Lindblad who talks to culture celebrities in Sweden.
- A three-part TV-series about an era of romance featuring the Norwegian poets Henrik Wergeland (1808-1845), Johan Sebastian Welhaven (1807-1873), and the Norwegian writer Camilla Collett, née Wergeland (1813-1895).
- The Swedish national fiddler Görgen Antonsson presents dangerous folk music with Gävle symphony orchestra in the city's old gasometer.
- "Happiness Has No Songs" - Concerto for cello and mixed choir, music by Olof Lindgren, text by Edith Södergran, conducted by Astrid Riska, featuring Lars Blomberg on Cello and the Jubilate Choir.
- Six female choreographers share an office at Dansens hus in Stockholm, Sweden, to stage their own performance. They have been given access to a dance studio, an office and they have two months to go. The six choreographers are: Anna Vnuk, Emelie Jonsson, Carmen Olsson, Malin Hellkvist Sellén, Lisa Östberg and Rani Nair.
- The Swedish writer, poet and actor Kent Andersson turned 70 in December 2003. Alongside the successful revues at Teater Aftonstjärnan in Gothenburg, he is above all known for the deeply socially critical plays Flotten, Hemmet and Sandlådan, which were first performed at Gothenburg's Stadsteater in the late 60s under the direction of by Lennart Hjulström.
- A reflection of current culture in Sweden.
- "Som sagt/As Said" - a program about language hosted by Alexandra Pascalidou and Lars-Gunnar Andersson, Professor of modern Swedish.
- The author Jan Myrdal is probably one of Sweden's most controversial cultural personalities. Some hate him, some love him, everyone admits he is a provocateur.
- Sweden's leading cultural creators talk about their professional lives, and give tips on creativity and inspiration
- The eccentric and bipolar concert pianist Ann-Mari Fröier upsets, touches and takes a lot of space. And is judged by many as a mad woman. However, social judgment comes quickly to shame when 87-year-old Ann-Mari Fröier invites to her world with Mozart, the unlikely environments and her unique life.
- The Swedish painter, poet, singer/songwriter and tinsmith Ruben Nilsson (1893-1971) never performed in front of an audience or on a gramophone record. The only thing that has been preserved is a privately recorded lacquer disc, where Ruben Nilsson sings "The Immortal Horse". In its technical imperfection, it is a unique document, presented for the first time in the film.
- About Artur Lundkvist (1906-1991) a Swedish writer, poet and literary critic. He was a member of the Swedish Academy from 1968. Maria Wine (1912-2003) was a Swedish-Danish poet and writer. Artur and Maria married in 1936. The two settled in Stockholm, and remained together until Lundkvist's death in 1991. Artur Lundkvist published around 80 books, including poetry, prose poems, essays, short stories, novels and travel books, and his works have been translated into some 30 languages.
- The Swedish Folk musicians Kersti Ståbi, Emma Härdelin and Magnus Stinnerbom play and sing in groups such as Triakel, Garmarna and Harv. Their fathers Björn Ståbi, Thore Härdelin and Leif Stinnerbom started the 70's Folk Music wave. The children of folk music tells tales, sing songs and rock out in Ransäter, Värmland. Two generations talk about now and then and make music together.