About the Swedish writer of fiction and screenplays Astrid Lindgren (1907-2002), one of the most popular people of our time. Made for her 80th birthday in 1987, recorded in the home on Dalagatan in Stockholm and at her childhood home outside Vimmerby. Margareta Strömstedt interviews Astrid Lindgren best known for several children's book series, featuring Pippi Longstocking, Emil of Lönneberga, Karlsson-on-the-Roof, and the Six Bullerby Children (Children of Noisy Village in the US), and for the children's fantasy novels Mio, My Son, Ronia the Robber's Daughter, and The Brothers Lionheart.—SVT