Shut up - or die is a series about the right to say what you think. The author and journalist Lena Sundström meet people who stand up against totalitarian regimes and risk their lives for the truth.
Although entirely fictitious, the series gets its inspiration from the Instagram riots that took place in Gothenburg in 2012, whereby an anonymous Instagram account ended up having dramatic consequences for its creators (two young girls were sentenced) and for the victims, creating at the same time riots across the city.
The story takes place during the weeks before Christmas, in the small mining town of fictitious Granhyttan in Bergslagen, Sweden. One day a suspicious couple, Signe and Orvar, arrives in the small town and retires in an abandoned hut. Nobody knows what they up to; but strange things starts to happen as Staffan finds a gold nugget while playing in a disused mine at the Kråkberget Mountain during a skiing trip with his schoolmates. Staffan believes the nugget is a part of Skarp-Erik's gold, as his grandpa had told exciting stories about. The news about the gold discovery spread quickly and Staffan and his friends are soon pursued by curious schoolmates, school staff and also the mysterious strangers. All this happens as the students are rehearsing for the nativity play before Christmas break.
Babajou family consists of mother, father, three brothers and a sister. The family has fled Idi Amin's dictatorship in Uganda to Sweden. The year is 1979, Kiss are the idols and siblings Babajous life changed overnight when my dad moved back to Africa and the mother decides that she and the children stay in the Swedish welfare state. Baker Karim has written the script with his brother Alexander, and the story has a partially autobiographical background.
The Military evacuates a zone in the Lapland mountains, under the pretext that there is an ongoing exercise. The district doctor gets suspicious when one of his patients, who lived inside the zone, suddenly dies. The body disappears without a trace.
Per Sinding-Larsen has followed Kent during the band's last year. From the quartet composing their last album, the recording of it in New York and the band's last tour and concert. On the way, he met with fans, friends, colleagues and other artists and asked what Kent means to them. Everything is interspersed with flashbacks of the 26-year long story of how four friends from Eskilstuna became Sweden's biggest band.
In the midst of a worldwide energy crisis, a mysterious man exhibiting strange behavior and suffering from amnesia appears out of nowhere, causing turmoil in a small Swedish town.
Kurt Wallander is thrown into a world he does not master - the computing world. An empty taxi found, heavily bloodstained and battered. Two young girls are taken in for questioning and admits murder of the taxi driver, but does not tell where the body is. The day after a man is found lying dead at an ATM with the bank statement in his hand. Two seemingly different cases, or do they have anything to do with each other? Kurt Wallander is trying to find answers, but he does not recognize himself - he feels unwell, dizzy and is forced to go to hospital.
Four teams meet each other in a quiz based on classical music, art and literature. Unlike the classic show Musikfrågan Kontrapunkt, this new show is not only about music but also about art and literature.
The Swedish rock band TomTrick were active 1979-1983. This live show is from the tv-show AB Svensk Rock, recorded live at Rock Palais, Stockholm. At that time, CBS had just released TomTrick's debut album "Nya äventyr i tid å rum". The tv-show "Dallas" premiered on Swedish television the very same night, on the competing channel TV2.