Jan Guillou

Året var 1973

At the end of August 1973, a robber takes hostages at the Kreditbanken at Norrmalmstorg. A week or so later, on September 15, King Gustaf VI Adolf dies in Helsingborg's hospital and Sweden gets a new king: Carl XVI Gustaf. In Chile, the military takes power and the popularly elected president Salvador Allende is overthrown. That and much more in this column about the year 1973.

In Anticipation of Jan Myrdal's Death

Documentary about the author Jan Myrdal and his strange friendship with Lasse Diding, founder of the Jan Myrdal Society.

IB - hemligare än Säpo

About the IB affair 1973. Two young journalists, Peter Bratt and Jan Guillou, reveal an unknown spy organization. They themselves are accused of espionage and have to pay a high price for their whistle-blowing.

Hasse & Tage - En kärlekshistoria

Hasse and Tage were best friends for over 30 years. Their films, shows, songs and books influenced an entire nation and were the glue that held people's home together. As a comedic duo, they united right-wing ghosts and anarchists in laughter. When Tage dies prematurely, his children lose a father, Hasse a father figure and all of Sweden a country father. And when Palme dies just months after Tage, the Swedish stable society begins to crumble. For the first time, the Alfredson and Danielsson families open up the archives and give us exclusive access to their stories, photographs and recordings.

Sjöwall & Wahlöö - Berättelsen om ett brott

The whole story of how the books about Martin Beck came to be is told here. It's a love story. A young couple wanted to talk about the injustices in society. Thus was born the modern detective story. It has been over 50 years since the first book in the series came out and it would only be in the fall of the age that Sjöwall Wahlöö was celebrated as the creator of the entire modern detective genre.

Yrrol - en kolossalt genomtänkt film

Yrrol: An Enormously Well Thought Out Movie. Sketch comedy

Kafé Korrekt

A show with the ambition of being controversial and cheeky. A mild leftist show including interrogations of the guests. The program also contained a slander tribune and onset of different objects and phenomena. The frame of the program imitated a communist propaganda show.

Förhöret

Carl Hamilton (Coq Rouge, Swedens James Bond) is called before KU (Swedens answer to the American congressional hearing) to answer questions about a spy war between Sweden and the Soviet Union.

Kårhusockupationen

"The Invasion of the Student Union" - Stockholm, Sweden, May 24th. It all started as a regular student meeting, evolved into a mass-meeting and an invasion of the house, with all ended three days later. The students were primarily upset regarding a draft about a changed curriculum in higher education. They also pursued various political dogmas. The angry students called out for the responsible minister of the government. This happened to be Olof Palme. He arrived at the mass-meeting where he suffered much criticism.