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Sweden - Kurt Wallander and Lisbeth Salander

Episode 13 of 15

Mark Lawson investigates how Swedish society is reflected in the crime novels of Stieg Larsson and Henning Mankell.

If the Martin Beck novels of Sj枚wall and Wahl枚枚 set the template for the social commentary found in Scandinavian crime fiction - Henning Mankell's Kurt Wallander novels and Steig Larsson's Millennium Trilogy have both used the form to focus on racist attitudes in modern Sweden.

Henning Mankell, Kenneth Branagh, Liza Marklund, Camilla L盲ckberg and Eva Gabrielsson - Stieg Larsson's partner, share their views about whether the Swedish state can still be held up as an ideal as Mark Lawson continues his series about the way modern European history is reflected through the pages of crime fiction.

Producer Robyn Read.

15 minutes

Last on

Thu 16 May 2019 02:15

Broadcasts

  • Wed 7 Nov 2012 13:45
  • Mon 12 Aug 2013 14:15
  • Wed 19 Oct 2016 14:15
  • Thu 20 Oct 2016 02:15
  • Wed 15 May 2019 14:15
  • Thu 16 May 2019 02:15

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