Meet Karsten Thurfjell, a cultural journalist well-known from Swedish Radio, as he visits the podcast and talks to Elisabeth and Julia about Swedish food. As the Secretary of the Swedish Academy of Gastronomy, he knows all about Swedish food production, Swedish tastes and traditional Swedish food. Listen to this conversation about everything from mushrooms and tacos to salted liquorice and wine.

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In this episode, Elisabeth and Julia invite Anders Houltz, Research Director at the Centre for Business History, to tell them about Swedish innovations and business history. He describes how creativity, combined with international contacts and politics, make up key parts of the formula which has made Sweden known as an innovative country. Julia gets especially inspired by the entrepreneurial spirit of “Let’s invent it!”

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Listen to Sara Cousins, professor of physical geography at Stockholm University, as she visits Julia and Elisabeth and explains everything you need to know about Swedish nature. She talks about ‘allemansrätten’ and how Swedes are rather close to their agricultural heritage. She also surprises Julia by describing how the ice age still affects Sweden through landmasses appearing. And they talk about potatoes, potatoes and potatoes.

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In this episode Lars Strannegård, President of the Stockholm School of Economics visits the podcast. He describes how he likes to marinate his students in culture and expose them to itching powder. He also shares how to best prepare for the future by being free and alive in relation to the unknown. And he talks with Elisabeth and Julia about the filmmaker Ruben Östlund, former UN Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld and Djurgården in Stockholm.

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In this episode Karina Ericsson Wärn, CEO and Vice-Chancellor at Beckmans College of Design visits Elisabeth and Julia. She explains how basic and practical clothing became the Nordic fashion DNA. She also shares how pinned up fashion images from magazines on her childhood bedroom’s walls led her to where she is today. And she makes the case for the right to dress and express yourself just the way you want!

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In this episode Elisabeth and Julia meet Christoffer Carlsson, a criminologist at Stockholm University and Nordic noir novelist. He tells the story about what happened in Stockholm in August 1973 - the bank robbery and hostage situation we now know as the “Stockholm Syndrome”. He also reveals his love of the smell of gasoline, the need for closure, and what it was like to grow up in a small village on the west coast of Sweden.

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In this intro episode we get to know Elisabeth and Julia, “The guru and the opera singer”. They talk about salted black licorice and super powers. They also dive into what this podcast is all about: career, community and culture in Stockholm, Sweden. And how they will help pop the bubbles surrounding the mysteries of life in Stockholm, one by one. Let’s go!  

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