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BBC Radio 3 is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 30th September 1967. It replaced Third Programme.

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

The ideas shaping our lives today - with artists and thinkers in debates and interviews.

The ideas shaping our lives today - with leading artists and thinkers in extended interview and debate.

Karl Ove Knausgaard

Philip Dodd

Ingrid Carlberg

Dorthe Nors

Nicholas Aylott

Zahid Warley

Free Thinking: Karl Ove Knausgard, Ingrid Carlberg, Dorthe Nors on Nordic Culture

Scandinavia Today

24/02/2016

Karl Ove Knausgard, Ingrid Carlberg, Dorthe Nors on Nordic Culture

BBC Radio 4 - Free Thinking, Karl Ove Knausgard, Ingrid Carlberg, Dorthe Nors on Nordic Culture

Karl Ove Knausgard talks to Philip Dodd in a programme exploring Scandinavia today.

Philip Dodd explores Scandinavia today with novelist Karl Ove Knausgard, authors Ingrid Carlberg and Dorthe Nors, and historian Nicholas Aylott.

The novelist, Karl Ove Knausgård , talks to Philip Dodd as the fifth instalment of his acclaimed My Struggle series is published in the UK. The programme also considers what it means to be Scandinavian today with the Swedish journalist, Ingrid Carlberg - author of a new biography of Raoul Wallenberg; the Danish writer and translator, Dorthe Nors; and Nicholas Aylott, an expert on models of democracy in Nordic and Baltic Europe who teaches history in Stockholm.

Some Rain Must Fall by Karl Ove Knausgard is published now in the UK.

Raoul Wallenberg - The Biography by Ingrid Carlberg is published now in the UK

Karate Chop and Minna Needs Rehearsal Space by Dorthe Nors is out now in the UK

Nikolai Astrup: Painting Norway is on show at the Dulwich Picture Gallery in London from until 15 May 2016

Main image: Marsh Marigold Night by Nikolai Astrup (1880-1928) - (Courtesy of the Dulwich Picture Gallery).

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