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S1.E24 ∙ Neon - nattens ljus

Wed, Dec 31, 1969

Neon is a colorless, odorless, inert monatomic gas under standard conditions, with about two-thirds the density of air. Discovered along with krypton and xenon in 1898.

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About the traditional carved, painted wooden statue of a horse originating in the Swedish province of Dalarna, called Dalahäst. It is stoutly carved and painted bright red with details and a harness in white, green, yellow and blue. The earliest references to wooden horses for sale are from 1623.

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S1.E52 ∙ En dansande Garbo

Wed, Dec 31, 1969

Carina Ari (1897-1970) started her remarkable career at the Royal Opera in Stockholm. Her mother had entered her at the ballet school, which offered poor girls a chance to obtain free education. Ballet training at the Royal Opera was rigorous. Dancers became proficient in a rather stiff, classical 19th century style. One person who opened up new roads at an early stage was the ingenious Michel Fokine, a regenerator of ballet, whom the Opera had judiciously brought to Stockholm for guest performances in 1913 and 1914.

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S1.E55 ∙ Magnus Uggla berättar om Ulf Rahmberg

Wed, Dec 31, 1969

Magnus Uggla talks about the versatile Swedish artist Ulf Rahmberg and his painting "Målning nr.16". Ulf was one of the founders of Puss - the raging artistic satire magazine.

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S1.E75 ∙ Kulturfara!

Wed, Dec 31, 1969

For some, Josephine Baker endured a cultural danger. So when she was to make her Swedish debut, the police were prepared. The bananas had been imported by the Norwegian banana king Carl Mathiesen since 1907. And Josephine Baker made a big success everywhere, even in Sweden.

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S1.E90 ∙ Cornelis!

Wed, Dec 31, 1969

About the mighty, circumscribed and bohemian Cornelis Vreeswijk - Dutch-born Swedish singer-songwriter, poet and actor.

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S1.E99 ∙ Jan Johansson

Wed, Dec 31, 1969

Pianist Jan Johansson who gave Swedish jazz a scent of forest and meadow.

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S1.E121 ∙ Kvinnorna på Foglestad

Wed, Dec 31, 1969

Fogelstadgruppen (The Fogelstad group) was formed in 1921 by Elisabeth Tamm, Ada Nilsson, Honorine Hermelin, Kerstin Hesselgren and Elin Wägner, and was politically engaged, but party-politically independent. The group's main practical contribution was the Women's Civic School at Fogelstad and the weekly magazine Tidevarvet. Kerstin Hesselgren became the first female member of the Swedish Parliament. Swedish artist Siri Derkert was an important part of Fogelstadgruppen.

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S1.E130 ∙ Isadora Duncan

Wed, Dec 31, 1969

Born in 1877 in San Francisco and lived an itinerant and at the time unconventional life. In her dance she was inspired by nature, she expressed her own thoughts and feelings in her dance pieces and was the first to dance barefoot on the big stages in Europe and the USA.

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