"The Cold Swedish Winter" - BBC Radio 4

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"The Cold Swedish Winter" - BBC Radio 4

Postby Montmorency » Fri Jan 15, 2016 7:52 pm

This is a cultural, rather than a language or travel thing. I just discovered this BBC Radio comedy set in Sweden

called "The Cold Swedish Winter"

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06vn6zy

part of the description:
The second series of this sitcom from Danny Robins (co-creator Lenny Henry comedy Rudy's Rare Records), set and recorded in Sweden and starring Edinburgh Comedy Award-winner Adam Riches, Danny Robins and a cast of Sweden's most popular TV comedy actors.

Geoff has moved to Yxsjö in northern Sweden, to start a new life with his girlfriend Linda in the (frequently frosty) bosom of her family.
[...]


I haven't listened to any other episodes, but this one plays heavily upon British-Swedish stereotypes.

Well, it's "different", anyway.
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