Sommar i P1 is nearing it's end, with Mia and Klara, the dynamic bitterness duo

Today two of my favourite comedians were on the Sommar in P1 program, Mia Skäringer and Klara Zimmergren - the geniuses behind the old show Roll On. No one can beat them at really squeezing the bitter juice out of life, serving it to you with a remotely polite smile while clearing their teeth of some remaining snus with the tounge.

Not everyone, actually probably quite few, enjoy the humor of Mia and Klara and Roll On, but I love it and sometimes go back to listening to it - that and Riskradion. It's so Swedish.


Anyway, I just figured I should mention that the list of mp3's of the shows, with all music still included, was just updated. Enjoy!

(Update: To know which is which of Klara and Mia - Klara is the older and blonde, Mia is the younger, (visibly) tatooed and dark-haired, and she has a blog! Wohoo! *subscribe*)

(Update 2: Also, don't miss the excellent TV-series version of Roll On simply called Mia och Klara)

Summer is here - P1 Sommar presents the list of sommarpratare!

Saturday it's time again, for Swedish radio's longest running and greatest annual show, in itself a symbol signalling the summer season - P1 Sommar, or "Sommarpratarna" (eng. "The summer talkers") as it's also called. Comedian prank-caller turned language guru Fredrik Lindström will open the race.

The form is simple, for each day during the entire summer someone is selected (one is elected by listeners, this year 19-year-old Yrsa Walldén on the 16th of July) to do whatever they want with a 90-minute program - tell a story, play their favourite music, whatever they can think of. Obviously not all stories will be interesting, but on the whole it's great, you get a very personal and relaxed view of your favourite people. Fredrik Härén wrote a story about the initial gathering of all the talkers, and there's web-TV from it too.

P1 Sommar is actually a pretty unique program in that its brand involves a lot of diversity - both young and old listen to it and it does not shun conflict, like when Lena Andersson caused an uproar with her "Agnostic mass" in P1 Sommar 2005, and she's back this year again! Maybe in the world of IT, shoutcast and podcast, it's less relevant to have state radio program with a limited number of slots like this, but being a "Sommarpratare" still offers a bit of glamour and the show does have a ton of listeners.

I'm very much looking forward to it, and keep an eye out so you can download the programs afterwards. Or you can download them with music yourself!

This is the schedule for the talkers I do want to hear:

June
21 Fredrik Lindström - programledare, författare
22 Lena Andersson - skribent, författare
23 Max Tegmark - professor i astrofysik
25 Fredrik Härén - författare, föreläsare
26 Maj Briht Bergström-Walan - sexualforskare, psykolog
29 Margot Wallström - EU-kommissionens 1:e vice ordförande
30 Elisabeth Massi Fritz - advokat

July:
1 Amelia Adamo - tidningsmakare
2 Peter Wallenberg - styrelseordförande
3 Jana Söderberg - samtalsterapeut, kommunikationstränare
5 Jonas Wahlström - djurexpert, chef Skansenakvariet
6 Peter LeMarc - sångskrivare, artist
10 Isabella Lövin - miljö- och kulturjournalist, författare
11 Leif Silbersky - advokat
12 Tina Nordström - kock
14 Åsa Nilsonne - psykiater, professor, författare
15 Antonia Ax:son Johnson - familjeföretagare, entreprenör
16 Yrsa Walldén - studerande, Lyssnarnas Sommarvärd
17 Mattias Klum - fotograf, filmare
18 Hasse Wallman - grundare och vd Wallmans nöjen
19 Dolph Lundgren - skådespelare, regissör
20 Robyn Carlsson - sångerska, låtskrivare
21 Nils Simonson - kirurg, föreläsare
22 Eva Swartz - vd Natur & Kultur
23 Raymond Ahlgren - egenföretagare, författare
26 Manuel Knight - affärsman, psykolog, föreläsare
27 Jens Lapidus - författare, advokat
28 Annika Söder - undergeneraldirektör, diplomat
30 Göran Hägglund - socialminister, partiledare kd

August:
2 Svante Axelsson - generalsekreterare
4 Stavros Louca - matematiklärare
6 Sissela Benn - skådespelerska, komiker
7 Per Hallberg - Oscarsbelönad ljuddesigner
8 Boris Grigorjev - KGB-överste, bosatt i Moskva
9 David Batra - komiker, programledare
11 Carin Götblad - länspolismästare
13 Hassan Brijany - skådespelare
14 Mia Skäringer och Klara Zimmergren - komiker
15 Mikael Tornving - komiker
17 Sommar i backspegeln

These are the talkers I am more likely to skip listening to:

June:
24 Lennart Johansson - före detta UEFA-president
27 Björn Ranelid - författare
28 Lars Winnerbäck - artist, låtskrivare

July:
4 Fredrik Skavlan - norsk journalist, tecknare, programledare
7 Olle Carlsson - präst
8 Kajsa Bergqvist - världsmästare i höjdhopp
9 Michael Segerström - skådespelare
13 Björn Ulvaeus - kompositör, textförfattare
24 Katja Geiger - modeskapare, "Katja of Sweden"
25 Måns Zelmerlöw - artist
29 Martina Lowden - författare
31 Karin Mamma Andersson - konstnär

August:
1 Annika Norlin - artist, låtskrivare, journalist
3 Pia Johansson - skådespelerska
5 Åsa Borgström - hemmansägare
10 Pernilla August - skådespelerska
12 Ann Henning - författare, översättare
16 Marie-Louise Ekman - blivande Dramatenchef

Do you disagree with me, who are you going to listen to? Go on and comment!

(PS. I am aware this makes limited sense to write in English, but please bear with me)

(Update: I noticed the links to SR's site are broken and will try to fix them)

(Update 2: Hah, ok, SR has bigger problems than bloggers linking into their content:


Seems that their CMS is broken. Guess I won't be hearing Jonas Wahlström just now then :-) )

(Update 3: This is fun - Fredrik "Bison" Wass has made his own Sommar i P1 program. Just email him to get to listen to it. In a wired world, who needs Swedish Radio sanctioning?)

(Update 4: Now you can download all of the programs through The Pirate Bay)

The best swedish SR radio and SVT TV online and podcasts

One of the things I miss the most in Estonia is the high end of the Swedish media selection (as denoted according to some arbitrary scale). Maybe it's the great things in Estonia which keep missing me, but either way, there is a lot of Swedish stuff I really like. Modern technology makes it all the simpler not only to never miss a show, but to view it even when you're abroad, so here goes! In the words of Percy Nilegård: "Det är humor, det är humor, det är humor"

I find it somewhat curious that Swedish media distinguish between streaming and downloadable media (after all, it's nothing a mplayer -dumpfile foo.wmv -dumpstream mms://fooserver.com/foo.wmv won't take care of), but anyway they strip the music away from downloadable media, so that means that you have to capture those awesome P3 Live concerts in real-time.

Swedish Radio provides most of its programming and then some (except major sport events?) through its online radio. Beside this, many of the programs have their own homepages with pictures and additional material (plus some have the dubious habit of posting stuff on youtube)

• P3 Dokumentär (podcast)
  
• P3 Mammas Nya Kille (podcast - with the Free-circus artist Katla and the other adorable returning characters from the Klungan-gang)
  
• P3 Pang Prego (podcast)
  
• P3 Deluxe (podcast - ended, but has moved on to Förnimmelse av Deluxe with their sacrilegious impression of children's-heroes Björne and his now murderous Snigel, Leif GW Persson et al)
  
• P1 Kaliber (podcast)
  
• P1 Public Service (podcast)
  
• P1 Konflikt (podcast)
  
• P3 Clownen Luktar Bensin (ended)
  
• P3 Roll On (ended since some time, featured a lot of painful social truths)

Finally of course, one must not miss the P1 Sommar programs which vary from amazingly cool to really boring every day of the summer, depending on who's hosting the program.

SVT television doesn't really provide anything for real-time streaming, but SVT Play provides at least most of the programs which are own productions, and its open archive is pretty amazing (as a complement to the funny stuff you anyway find on youtube nowadays). Some key programs are also available as podd-tv (vodcast).

• Kobra (play)
  
• Musikbyrån (play - just started another season!)
  
• Klass 9A (play - ended, the first episodes are available as torrents)
  
• Rapport (play, vodcast)
  
• Dokument Inifrån (play, vodcast)
  
• Uppdrag Granskning (play, vodcast)
  
• Papas Kappsäck (play - ended, but I've found torrents)

Usually after watching a program I just keep the video file I have streamed down, so if someone would for example be passionate about my collection of Kobra episodes, we can do something about that as well.

(Update: copyriot has a great blog-post about the legality of radio ripping (in Swedish), cudoz to him)