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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.
- 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.
- "Seven Boys and Seven Girls" - presents 14 writers/authors, 7 male and 7 female.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Comedian Nisti Stêrk takes us on a journey through the history of Swedish comedy. From Julia Cæsar to Clara Henry, from Hjördis Pettersson to Gina Dirawi.
- 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.
- A portrait of Benny Fredriksson who for 16 years was CEO of Kulturhuset / Stadsteatern. He also had a background as an actor and director. In connection with a media hunt he resigned and later took his own life.
- 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.
- In the footsteps of the author Eyvind Johnson seeking out the images and environments in which his stories were born. The journey goes on dizzying roads between medieval Central Europe and the timeless landscape of antiquity.
- 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.
- CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy) for cultural phobics. Developmental talks from SVT Kultur with relevant guests about the most important events of the week and in the present.
- A six-part series about houses and cities in Europe.
- "The Film Chronicle" presents new feature film from around the world, directors and actors, as well as various themes.
- "Hamlet - a theatre performance is emerging. From collation to premiere. Director/Actor Lars Göran Carlsson is staging a new version of "Hamlet" at Dramaten, Stockholm. This interpretation or reading is a Marxist analysis where the main character becomes a modern day revolutionary. Jan Malmsjö plays Hamlet in this extensive production involving some 50 actors. The rehearsals are filmed by Swedish Television during the winter/spring 1974. Opening night was on April 11, 1974.
- About the Swedish author Göran Tunström (1937-2000). His style was personal and intimate, and had a clear autobiographical tone. Tunström is best known for "The Christmas Oratorio", adapted as a film in 1996.
- "Historic Theater Premieres" - features four of the most mentioned plays at their respective first performances.
- Reportage, commentary and conversations about different art directions and current trends in culture.
- Short visits to Swedish theatre life and its practitioners.
- A walk in the world of poetry among lyricists and bards of distinction.
- Short films and reports about phenomena in culture, such as art, fashion and whatever.
- About new art, where we not only meet the artists and follow the movements of time, but also show new works of art made or selected especially for the television medium.
- "A book, an Author" - about all kinds of literature by Swedes or in Swedish.
- They became a power factor in Swedish politics to a rarely seen extent when they threatened to form a women's party, Maria-Pia Boethius, Agneta Stark and Ebba Witt-Brattström. Stödstrumporna became a threat and a promise: More women in politics, otherwise... The men of Stödstrumpornas, Per Bergfeldt, Sven Lindqvist and Horace Engdahl also participated in the program with their view of their cunning women. Cinnamon buns, baked with a feminist ulterior motive, also play an important role in the program.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- At the end of the centuries, the flâneurs had their best time. One hundred years ago, it was Hjalmar Söderberg and Bo Bergman who reflected on life from their cafe tables with a view.
- It's about big feelings and groundbreaking ideas when approaching the Swedish author, pedagogue and feminist ideologue Ellen Key (1849 - 1926). She was one of the great cultural personalities of the last century. The whole world read her book Children's Century, whose radical ideas are only now beginning to be realized. She fought for female suffrage, for free love and for beauty in homes. She was a charismatic speaker and moved among writers and philosophers in Europe around the turn of the century. Today she is strangely forgotten. Ann Victorin went to Ellen Key's home Strand by the lake Vättern, to get to know her modern thoughts about her time.
- A three-part TV-series presenting three essays on the inner images, the interiors of Stockholm by Swedish writer/producer/director Sonja Döhre.
- About Swedish art and artists after Word War II.
- "Do not try to understand" - Primo Levi's book" Is this a human being?" is a life-changing reading experience for Lars Norén, both privately and as a writer. Levi was in Auschwitz in the final stages of World War II and his depiction from there became a theatrical performance directed by Norén. Jean Samuel was a camp-mate of Primo Levi and still lives in France. Lars Norén left to meet Jean Samuel. Norén talks here with Samuel and with Elisabeth Åsbrink about her view of Nazism and its victims.
- Summer in Sweden is festival time. Musicians and audiences leave concert halls, club rooms and theaters and go out on green pastures. Sweden's Television Music Bus will submit a sounding report every week from the music holiday. We get to meet the people and experience the environment and above all hear the music from summer Sweden.
- About the Swedish interest in the East. Via trade, explorers, campaigns and research. Both Carl von Linné and the warrior king Carl XII was fascinated and eager to penetrate deeper into the mystery.
- 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.
- A six-part series about the love for our old houses in the countryside. A story about the old Swedish building tradition of building from materials that can be obtained from the forest, the land and the surrounding fields. From knotty timber in Västerbotten to probate works on Öland and clay tile houses in Skåne.
- Trio CMB (Carl Michael Bellman) perform epistles, and songs by the Swedish songwriter, composer, musician, poet and entertainer.
- "Sjöwall and Wahlöö's World of Crime" - presents the background and inspiration of their 10 crime novels. The starting point was to describe a collective of police officers, where the first criminal assistant - later the criminal commissioner and the head of the National Homicide Commission - Martin Beck is crystallized as the main character. The novels are written in a realistic tradition, which is based on the work of the police, with a typically strong socially critical perspective for the time when the books were written.
- "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.
- In 1909, during the last hours of New Year's Day, Ivar Arosenius (1878-1909) finally loses the battle against hemophilia. Thirty years old, he stands on the threshold of his big breakthrough as an artist. The successes would hardly have surprised the confident artist. He leaves behind an extensive output: watercolours, drawings, sketches, caricatures, oil paintings, tempera paintings, fairy tales, picture books, drastic letters, painted door mirrors and outhouses.
- "Pork/Flesh" - eight episodes about different people, characters, phenomena, peculiarities and oddities.
- Stig Larsson is a Swedish writer of novels, dramas, poetry, political essays and short stories, screen writer, director and actor. His first success was in 1979 with "Autisterna/The Autistics", since, he has established himself as an influential and offbeat author. Larsson has published over 20 books including novels, short stories, and poetry collections, along with a couple of plays, TV-productions and feature films. In the late 1970, his namesake and friend, Stieg Larsson, born Stig, the well-known author of the Millennium series, slightly changed the spelling of his first name to avoid confusion with Stig, by then a well-known writer.
- Everything is designed. Trash as Luxury. The new shape magazine "Reform" turns gadgets and architecture upside down.
- The main character in the opera is K., who has many features in common with the writer Franz Kafka, but the authors' aim was not to depict his real life. K. could at the same time be anyone fighting K.'s existential battle. The gallery of people is made up of people that Kafka actually met or that he could have met during his lifetime. Despite the title, the opera "K. Description of a struggle" is not based on Kafka's youth work "Description of a Struggle", but consists of a mosaic of quotations from his entire literary production as well as his diaries, letters and writings in the service.
- "Som sagt/As Said" - a program about language hosted by Alexandra Pascalidou and Lars-Gunnar Andersson, Professor of modern Swedish.
- 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.