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Autumn

Linda and Geoff throw a house-warming party at cross purposes and Sten campaigns for re-election. With Adam Riches. From September 2014.

Episode Four and it's a new season of the year in this Englishman abroad sitcom from Danny Robins (the writer of the Lenny Henry comedy 'Rudy's Rare Records') This series is set and recorded in Sweden and stars Adam Riches, Danny Robins and some of Sweden's most popular TV comedy actors. Geoff, a marginally successful stand-up comic from London, is moving to the tiny, cold and unpronounceable village of Yxsjö in northern Sweden; a culture shock forced on him by his Swedish girlfriend Linda's decision to move home to raise their child. This series follows his first year attempting to settle in his new home, each episode set in a different season.

Geoff has to contend with snow, moose, pickled herring, unemployment, snow, Maypole dancing, snowmobiles, snow, meatball rolling, saunas, social democracy, snow, the weirdest pizzas in Europe, bears, deep forests, death metal, illegal alcohol, snow... Above all he has a new family to contend with. The Andersson's bewilder him - from father Sten (Thomas Oredsson - Crimes of Passion to be broadcast on Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Four this year), who has a worrying tendency to growl like a bear and threaten him with any blunt instrument to hand to Gunilla (playwright and comedian Anna-Lena Bergelin), who threatens him with naked folk-dancing. It's worth it all for Linda, of course, apart from her new found urge to conform with everything and except for her brother, a Goth with a propensity to set fire to things. And his fellow immigrants are no less unsettling: Ian (Danny Robins), a divorcee, who has been depressed for the last eight years and Soran (Farshad Kohlgi - The Killing), a Danish Kurd with Swedophobia.

Episode 4 -"Autumn": In which Geoff tries to be different, a heavily pregnant Linda throws a "fika" party and Sten campaigns for re-election

Writer: Danny Robins
Director: Frank Stirling
A Unique Production for Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4.

30 minutes

Last on

Sat 2 Mar 2019 05:00

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Credits

Role Contributor
Geoff Adam Riches
Sten Thomas Oredsson
Linda Sissela Benn
Gunilla Anna-Lena Bergelin
Ian Danny Robins
Estate Agent Joakim Jennefors
Jorgen Joakim Jennefors
Doctor Lisa Werlinder
Director Frank Stirling
Writer Danny Robins

Broadcasts

  • Mon 1 Sep 2014 11:30
  • Thu 19 Jan 2017 18:30
  • Thu 26 Jan 2017 07:30
  • Thu 26 Jan 2017 17:30
  • Thu 26 Jan 2017 22:00
  • Fri 27 Jan 2017 05:30
  • Fri 1 Mar 2019 07:00
  • Fri 1 Mar 2019 17:00
  • Sat 2 Mar 2019 05:00

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