Episode list

The story of Leif Andersson's puzzling single record, which has been called everything from terrible to innovative and avant-garde. There have been many rumors about how the record was created, and Stefan Sundberg has searched for the truth behind this unique release. - There is something genuine and authentic in Leif's recording that makes the single feel like something other than a pure ploy, and I had not realized how incredibly many admirers Leif has. A lot of new facts have come to the surface about this recording since I started working on the program, which feels fantastic, says Stefan Sundberg. Leif did not record any more singles and then disappeared as quickly as he had appeared. But who was he and how did he actually end up in a recording studio?

Betty Bjurström and Gunilla af Halmstad both made careers as exotic dances. Vincent is Betty's son who in his youth married rich older women. Betty became Miss China in 1941. "China" in this case refers to the variety at the China theatre in Stockholm. And she was almost killed by her Italian husband Renato Senise in Paris 1949. Now the rumor has that Vincent Senice-Bjurström is going to make a movie about his mother, but he is not a man that is easy to get hold of. What happened to Vincent and where is he today?

In two episodes we follow the story of the mythical Mr. X, born Leif Stenberg, also known as Leif Skiffer, who for many years has been portrayed as something of a Swedish godfather in Stockholm. There is talk of illegal gambling clubs, prostitution and even drugs and murder. But in the end, many will wonder what all the rumors and accusations really were.

When hairdresser Elin Rantatalo closed her salon and took her family on a hot summer vacation to Gran Canaria, no one knew what would happen. When they return home, nothing is the same.

1911 in Malmö. A large homo sexual affair is being investigative by the police. Several gentlemen are arrested: a paper dealer, a bookseller, a conductor, a waiter, and an errand boy. But the boy was only 13 when he first exerted unnatural fornication, he tells the police. His name is Ernst Algot Frank.

In April 1973, Willy Pfändtner steps off the train in Västerås, Sweden. He has shaved his head with a small tassel and a wife by his side. Troublesome traveling, hard work and a prison sentence has made him gather his thoughts. After four years on the road he has now come home to mission about Hare Krishna.

Umeå-Berlin. During World War II, lawyer Sven Hallström returns to Germany to build up its Nazi contact network. In Sweden, upper -class nazis plan for what will happen when Adolf Hitler wins the war. They are preparing a new Nazi government that involves Sven Hallström. But he has five children with a woman from a Jewish family.

Hans Hatwig wallpapered the teenage rooms in the late 70's with his newspaper Poster. On television you can watch "Nygammalt" but there are few places where young people can hear and read about their artists. So the idea for his new project is born. The magazine Okay, with both pictures and articles and filled with stretching headlines and readers' letters. But the publisher hesitates and gives Hans Hatwig three numbers.

The year is 1964 and inside Gallery Kristina hangs five paintings, signed by the French artist Pierre Brassau. One has a black background and has orange and fiery yellow thick lines that seem to spread out in different directions. Another painting has a white background and here the colors are red and fiery yellow, this is the latest exclusive spontaneous art. The newspaper Göteborgs-Posten's art reviewer writes that Brassau is something of a ballet master of the canvas. But in the reeds lurk a dissatisfied gallery owner and a mischievous and thick newspaper editor. This is the story of one of the biggest art coups in Gothenburg's history, and about a little black monkey at the Borås Zoo.

In two parts, Cecilia Ohlén tells the story of the author Emilie Flygare-Carlén's fate in 19th-century Sweden. Emilie achieved success far beyond Sweden's borders with her novels. Just like for Camilla Läckberg, the west coast and her hometown of Strömstad were her landscape and the world from which she drew inspiration for her most successful novels. Emelie was born in Strömstad in 1807, in an old merchant's house full of magical objects and surrounded by sailors' stories of shipwrecks and smuggling routes. Her father was a sea captain and merchant, she accompanied him on his voyages and as a teenager she was given responsibility for her own boat. An unusual upbringing for a woman in the early 19th century. It is this world that later in life would become the starting point for her greatest book successes.