The Cold Swedish Winter  

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The Cold Swedish Winter

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Sitcom by Danny Robins about a London stand-up comic living in Sweden.

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Adam Riches

Thomas Oredsson

Sissela Benn

Anna-Lena Brundin

Danny Robins

Farshad Kohlgi

Fredrik Andersson

Thomas Ericsson

Shanthi Rydwall

Frank Stirling

The Cold Swedish Winter: Series 2: Episode 1

Episode 1

Series 2

BBC Radio 4 - The Cold Swedish Winter, Series 2, Episode 1

New dad Geoff tries to host a perfect Swedish Christmas.

It’s baby John's first Christmas and Geoff unwisely offers to organise fun for the whole family. Stars Adam Riches. From 2016.

Geoff and the Anderssons celebrating baby John's first Christmas, as Geoff unwisely volunteers to organise the festivities for the whole family.

The second series Danny Robins' sitcom, set and recorded in Sweden.

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.

This year, new dad Geoff has plenty of fresh experiences to contend with, including three varieties of pickled cabbage, sinister Christmas elves and an unpleasant visit from Sweden's answer to the BNP. It's all worth it though for Linda and baby John. 

While Geoff and Linda now have their own place, he still has to deal with her disapproving Dad, Sten her alarmingly flirtatious mother Gunilla  and her apparently suicidal, arsonist brother, Anders.

Geoff is determined to be more Swedish than the Swedes as he takes to his new country with renewed enthusiasm, and he has help, in the form of fellow expat, cynical Ian, an unending source of (slightly misleading) information, and Soran, a Danish Kurd with Swedophobia.

Geoff    ......    Adam Riches
Sten    ......    Thomas Oredsson
Linda    ......    Sissela Benn
Gunilla    ......    Anna-Lena Brundin
Ian    ......    Danny Robins
Soran    ......    Farshad Kohlgi
Anders Fredrik Andersson

With Thomas Ericsson and Shanthi Rydwall.

Director: Frank Stirling

A Unique production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in January 2016. .

The Cold Swedish Winter: Series 2

Intelligent speech, the most insightful journalism, the wittiest comedy, the most fascinating features and the most compelling drama and readings anywhere in UK radio.

Sitcom by Danny Robins about a London stand-up comic living in Sweden. Made on location with some of Sweden's most popular TV comedy actors.

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