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The Light Keeps Us Awake is a podcast about Nordic crime, punishment and other shared phenomena in Scandinavia.The purpose of this podcast is to guide you through a few of the murder cases that have embedded themselves into the consciousness of the societies of the Nordic countries, but also present other elements to our shared experience. To support the podcast, you can use the button on our website or click here (PayPal): https://www.paypal.com/donate?hosted_button_id=Q3XBAHLSS3WU2 Or here ...
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The 13th of january 2017 is a friday. The weather is cold, around -3 degrees celsius (which is about 26 degrees Fahrenheit), but not especially cold for Iceland. Even though she has to go to work the next day, 20-year old Birna Brjánsdóttir decides to go out to have a few drinks with her friends. They have a few drinks and play cards up until midni…
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The famous star surgeon Paolo Macchiarini was recruited to Karolinska hospital and institute in 2010. He had successfully performed transplantations of tracheas from dead donors to living patients and his method was going to revolutionize the medical field. But there was a catch. This is a story of deceit, science fiction and a naked emperor. Video…
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Juha Valjakkala and Marita Routalammi are involved both romantically and criminally and sustain themselves by stealing cars, committing burglaries and thefts. In the summer of 1988, Sten Nilsson and his son Fredrick set after the two thieves to retrieve their stolen bike and follow them to the village cemetary in Åmsele. Juha and Marita will face a…
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In september 1994, the ship M/S Estonia sank while sailing from Tallinn, Estonia to Stockholm, Sweden. For the approximately 1000 people aboard, it became a race against time when the lower decks and the staircases became death traps in the matter of minutes. In this episode we follow Sara and Mikael, who managed to escape the ship in the middle of…
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Black metal developed from heavy and extreme metal in the late 80’s and early 90’s and is characterized by distorted instruments, guttural or shrieking vocals, lyrics focused on death and destruction and featuring satanic and/or nordic mythological symbolism. The most defining thing about the scene though were the anti-christian, or anti-religious …
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What is it like to starve? The scandinavian countries are known to offer a high quality of life - but has that always been the case? And what do you do when you can't feed your children? Swedish people love to brag about our country’s wealth, as you can tell, but moving backwards into our past means facing a literal dumpster fire of a society. Toda…
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"What do you do when you have a big problem? You cut it up into smaller pieces." Swedish journalist Kim Wall went missing in august 2017 in Kögebukten, Denmark. The last person to have seen her was the eccentric, Gyro Gearloose-esque inventor she had interviewed the night before aboard his self-constructed submarine. Danish and Swedish police now h…
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Healers - or witches? The story of the so called Forest Finns is buried deep in the scandinavian soil, but unearthed here piece by piece. Known for their use of magic and belief in nature mysticism, many of the Forest Finns were seen as a threat to the church, to the country and to the safety of its people. Support the show…
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17-year old Wilma Andersson disappears from her apartment in Uddevalla, Sweden, in november of 2019. This will lead to one of the largest search operations in the country, where both police led and private search parties set out to find her but a gruesome discovery forces everyone involved to face new perspectives. Support the show…
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