Learning from Sweden

Arts & Ideas

BBC

Society & Culture

4.2 • 599 Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2018

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

What do meatballs, The Square and Henning Mankell have in common? The answer is Sweden as you’ve no doubt guessed. As ABBA’s Cold War musical, Chess, is poised to return to the British stage Matthew Sweet considers what Sweden’s taught us – whether in films such as I am Curious Yellow or in the aisles at IKEA - and what the Swedes might have gained from their brushes with Britain. His guests include Anders Sandberg from the Future of Humanity Institute in Oxford, the Swedish cultural attache, Pia Lundberg, Lars Blomgren, one of the people behind The Bridge, the social scientist, Tom Hoctor and Kieran Long - once of the V&A but now the director of the Swedish centre for Architecture and Design.

Chess runs at English National Opera from 26 Apr - 02 Jun 2018

Producer: Zahid Warley

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the home of the oxymoron. Evil genius. He asked the newspaper to print his obituary early so he'd enjoy it. That's like hiding at your own funeral. Yeah, a big, great gig. I'm Russell Kane. Join me to weigh in on whether the biggest players in history are more evil or genius. Becoming that rich, I'd say that is some level of genius. It also helps that it's a long time ago, right?
0:23.3	It's like the podcast version of telling your kids the ice cream van plays music when it's out of ice cream.
0:28.8	Listen to evil genius on BBC Sounds.
0:32.1	Hello, I'm Matthew Sweet.
0:33.5	Welcome to BBC Radio 3's Arts and Ideas discussion program, which brings together leading
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0:56.0	Hey, hey, on this program, everything you wanted to know about Sweden, but we're afraid to ask.
1:05.1	See the Stockholm Strip, where Sweden's liberated youth, bored with sex, bored with drugs, bored with life itself, drop out for good.
1:16.6	See the Salome Club, where a beautiful country's most beautiful women, turn to each other in desperation, looking for satisfaction.
1:26.6	This is Sweden, where anything and everything goes.
1:31.3	An inside look at Sweden's inside, where the new morality is old half.
1:37.3	You owe it to all your senses to see Sweden, heaven and hell.
1:46.6	The trailer for the Italian director Luigi Scatini's 1968 travelogue, Sweden, heaven and
1:53.6	hell. A portrait of a country in which the inhabitants are either running naked in the snow,
1:58.9	bouncing around on spacehoppers, or committing suicide.
2:02.2	Tonight we'll ask why the vice or virtue of Sweden has been so contested, particularly by
2:07.6	people who have never been there. And we'll be following the lines of cultural exchange between
2:12.6	Sweden and the UK and what their future might be. We will mention Abba, the band and possibly also the
2:19.2	popular brand of tinned herring. We will discuss season four of the bridge, coming next month
2:24.4	to BBC 2 and bringing the story of Detective Sargia Norleon of the Malmo Police to a dark conclusion.
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