Category Good news and fun
Colin Firth’s interviews are never boring
Steve Martin says that movie interviews always are boring, but not these ones with Colin Firth. 2003 2010
Filmtalk on NPR and my household chores
What would I do without the movie programs from NPR? I guess live without them but my household chores would be more boring and my house more messy. When I can listen to Terry Gross talk to Colin Firth while cleaning the toilet or Larry Mantle discuss film with film critics in LA while sorting the […]
Fresh air movie interviews 2009-2012
What would I do without the movie programs from NPR? I guess live without them. But my household chores would be more boring. Fresh air movie interviews 2009-2012 Filmweek on AirTalk
A messenger in Chicago
Sonari Glinton tells the story of how a Catholic nun teaches an entire school on Chicago’s South Side by acting not by words. Sonari is a reporter for NPR News.
“Urban Fruit Initiative” är Sveriges bästa kooperativa affärsidé 2012
Vilken bra idé – grattis! I vår lilla stad blir jag så glad när jag ibland ser någon som satt ut äpplen på gatan för folk att äta. Otrolig stor mängd frukt går till spillo varje höst. Sveriges bästa kooperativa affärsidé 2012 producerar fruktprodukter från odlingar i stadsmiljö. Entreprenörerna i kooperativet Urban Fruit Initiative vinner nu priser […]
Alice Walker: Go to the Places That Scare You
Alice Walker is a poet, essayist, and commentator, but she’s best known as a writer of literary fiction. Her novel The Color Purple won the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award in 1983 and quickly became a classic of world literature. The novel is told in letters written by Celie, a woman who survives oppression and abuse […]
The Story of Film: An Odyssey by Mark Cousins
Writer, filmmaker and passionate cinephile has made a 15-hour documentary inspired by his bestseller, ‘The Story of Film’. It is shown on Teema on Finnish TV this fall. It throws you into the history of film and I have learned things which have changed the way I watch film. He takes us through the history of innovation in […]
Wahlroos och Salmén om politik, frisyrer, sex och musik 1969
Det var en Wahlroos jag skulle ha velat känna. One blue sky above us One ocean lapping all our shore One earth so green and round Who could ask for more…. Related articles: Miljardärer, solidaritet och regnbågar
Greediness, solidarity and rainbows
When my daughter was little she wondered why I thought people who were rich were not happier than we were. I tried to explain that happiness does not come with money, and that not everyone can be rich, there are not enough resources in the world. It was certainly not a convincing argument for a […]
Miljardärer, solidaritet och regnbågar
När min dotter var liten undrade hon varför jag trodde att folk inte var lyckligare om de var rika. Jag försökte förklara att lycka inte kommer med pengar och att alla inte kan vara rika i världen, det finns inte tillräckligt med resurser i världen för det. Det var säkert inte ett övertygande resonemang för […]
Ylva Rancken-Lutz
"I am linked therefore I am" 