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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

Anna-Lena Bergelin

Fredrik Andersson

Danny Robins

Thomas Ericsson

Frank Stirling

The Cold Swedish Winter: Series 2: Episode 3

Episode 3

Series 2

BBC Radio 4 - The Cold Swedish Winter, Series 2, Episode 3

Geoff tries his hand at some controversial Swedish political satire.

Geoff‘s homesick as everything so efficient! Ian suggests making a satirical podcast about Sweden. With Adam Riches. From 2016.

Everything works so well in Sweden that Geoff misses complaining about life. It's making him homesick. Then Ian suggests they try making a satirical podcast about Sweden - with seismic results.

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
Johan ...... Andre Wickstrom
Ian ...... Danny Robins
Pedestrian ...... Thomas Ericsson

Writer: Danny Robins
Additional Material by Ben Kersley

Director: Frank Stirling

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

The Cold Swedish Winter: Series 2

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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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