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7. Three Crowns
09:01||Season 1, Ep. 7After a whole series of the Kalmar Union being torn apart, tonight the lads tell how it was BUILT — by a woman. Queen Margaret I welds three crowns into one. Meanwhile the Luleå police have flagged the mast that still won't stop interfering with their radio, and Bengt — Brenda's policeman — comes to quietly warn the boys that a technician is on the way. Brenda plans the Sunday lamb roast, blissfully unaware of any of it.Tonight's history (all true):Married off to the King of Norway at ten. Her father, her husband and her little son all die — so Margaret picks up Denmark and Norway herself.- In 1389 at Falköping she batters King Albert of Mecklenburg and takes him prisoner — and now she has Sweden too.- In 1397, at Kalmar, she welds the three kingdoms into one and crowns her great-nephew Erik of Pomerania — the very Erik whose bailiffs Engelbrekt would rise against forty years later. She ruled the lot as the "Lady King" until her death in 1412....with two original punk tracks: "Three Crowns" and "Lady King".Contains strong language. An AI-generated production: voices and music made with AI, history fact-checked by hand.
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6. Bloodbath & 'Otpot
12:33||Season 1, Ep. 6Johansson comes to dinner. Brenda's made her famous hotpot, Degsy's hidden the mixing desk under a blanket, and Gaz tells the worst dinner-party story in Swedish history: Stockholm, November 1520 — a king throws a three-day coronation feast, locks the doors, and executes eighty-two of his guests. Featuring two bishops, one dug-up corpse, a lad called Gustav you might remember from episode one... and a policeman who, tonight, is only a dinner guest.Songs: "Lock the Doors" and "Dinner with the Law".Real history, badly told: the Stockholm Bloodbath is fact-checked — the hangover is not.5. Queen Christina & Mam's New Fella
07:12||Season 1, Ep. 5Brenda comes back from shopping glowing. She stopped at a gatukök for a Swedish hot dog — a varmkorv — and met a lovely, shy Swedish policeman. She felt a bit wild, so she's invited him to dinner in the cabin tomorrow. The lads slowly realise, with mounting horror, that Mam's new gentleman is Johansson — the very copper they conned last episode.Tonight's history (all true):Queen Christina — daughter of Gustav II Adolf (the real Lion of the North), crowned at five, raised as a prince, brilliant and contrary.- She summoned Descartes for 5 a.m. philosophy lessons in the freezing winter — and he was dead of pneumonia within four months.- She refused to marry, and on 6 June 1654 (the same date they made Gustav Vasa king) she abdicated the throne, converted to Catholicism, and rode off across Europe to Rome — dressed as a man — to live exactly as she pleased....with two original punk tracks: "The Girl King" and "Walk Away".Contains strong language. An AI-generated production: voices and music made with AI, history fact-checked by hand.4. Engelbrekt & the Optimised Mast
09:46||Season 1, Ep. 4Brenda's out shopping in Kiruna, so the lads are unsupervised — which is exactly when Konstapel Johansson drives up from Luleå to find out what's wrong with the radio mast and who cut the fence. Deeply uncomfortable in English, he stands no chance against Gaz and Degsy, who blag that they're "ditresta experts" optimising the mast for the Norrland climate.Tonight's history (all true):Engelbrekt, 1434 — a miner from Bergslagen raises the commoners against King Erik's foreign bailiffs, burns the royal castles, and is made captain of the realm at Arboga (traditionally called Sweden's first Riksdag).- Then the betrayal: the nobles can't stand a working man in charge, and in 1436 Engelbrekt is axed to death on a little island in Lake Hjälmaren by the lord Måns Bengtsson....with two original punk tracks: "Engelbrekt" and "Axe on the Island".Contains strong language. An AI-generated production: voices and music made with AI, history fact-checked by hand.3. Charles XII: Shot in the Dark
07:54||Season 1, Ep. 3Charles XII: the teenage warrior king who couldn't lose — until he lost everything. Gaz and Degsy tell it, and Degsy's mam Brenda is still here, mothering the memory of a 36-year-old who never came home.Tonight's history (all true):Narva, 1700 — the fifteen-year-old king routs a Russian army of nearly forty thousand with eight thousand men, in a blizzard.- Poltava, 1709 — he marches into Russia, Peter the Great burns everything, the army freezes, and the empire is broken in a single day.- Five years hiding in the Ottoman Empire, a fortnight's ride home, and then a bullet through the head in a Norwegian trench in 1718, aged 36 — and to this day, nobody knows who fired it....with two original punk tracks: "Narva" and "Shot in the Dark".Contains strong language. An AI-generated production: voices and music made with AI, history fact-checked by hand.2. Full English in Miklagård
08:18||Season 1, Ep. 2Degsy's mam, Brenda Higginbottom, has somehow reached the Arctic on mother's instinct — and she is NOT impressed. As Gaz and Degsy try to broadcast the story of the Swedish Vikings who went east, Brenda barges in with a fry-up and no respect whatsoever for live radio.Tonight's history (all true, however loudly interrupted):The Varangian Guard — in 988, Emperor Basil II takes six thousand Viking hard-lads as his personal bodyguard.- Miklagård — what the Norse called Constantinople, reached by rowing east down the rivers.- Halfdan — a bored Varangian who carved his name in runes inside the Hagia Sophia. Still there a thousand years on.- Ingvar the Far-Travelled — the great expedition east that never came home, remembered on runestones across Sweden....with two original punk tracks: "Miklagård" and "Proper Breakfast".Contains strong language. An AI-generated production: voices and music made with AI, history fact-checked by hand.1. Do One, Denmark!
09:51||Season 1, Ep. 1Two foul-mouthed British punks, Gaz and Degsy, have broken into a cabin outside Kiruna, cut the fence to a radio mast, and gone on air. In the pilot they blast through the birth of modern Sweden — getting drunker, and louder, as they go.Tonight's history (all true, however badly told):Gustav Vasa — the Stockholm Bloodbath of 1520, the flight to Dalarna, the Mora skiers, and the day in 1523 Sweden told Denmark to do one.- Nils Dacke — the 1542–43 Småland uprising against the punk-turned-king.- The warship Vasa — the grandest ship in the world, sunk after 1,300 metres in 1628. Too posh to float....with three original punk tracks along the way: "Do One (Vasa's Comin')", "Dacke's Army" and "Too Posh to Float".Contains strong language. An AI-generated production: voices and music made with AI, history fact-checked by hand.