The Radical Flu

Women's Day Special - There is no revolution without sexual revolution.

In this epilogue we will get back to a familiar voice, speaking from a dark place, just before sunrise.

Extending outside the borders of Christiania, we reach further north in order to give attention to peripheral pasts. Uncovering the virus that we can’t see, but that spreads itself in a set of instances, situations, actions, the outcomes of which may endure for generations. Our guests Margrethe Pettersen, Cecilia Persson and Timimie Märak tell us their stories through cultural e

As the second wave of the Spanish flu strikes Kristiania, we meet an ensemble of characters from all corners of society around the dining tables of the city’s busiest restaurant, Dampen in Torggata 8. Special guests: Singh family from Punjab Tandoori in Oslo and Silvia Federici.

It is high summer in Kristiania, the capital city of Norway. The year is 1918. In Frimurerlosjen, the Masonic Grand Lodge, the kitchen is operating at full steam, serving a lavish banquet dinner for 180 wealthy guests. To serve those 180 wealthy guests, you have unnamed workers: the staff have been on their feet all evening catering to the exclusively male party. And there are, as

We are in Akersveien, right in front of the Oslo katolske bispedømme, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Oslo. Casually strolling in the street, a group of important gentlemen exchange on art and politics, oblivious of The Plague that is ravaging the city, the Spanish Flu. These gentlemen, Gustav Vigeland, Edvard Munch, Martin Tranmæl and Johan Scharffenberg, are about to be hammered

Vor Frelsers graveyard in Christiania. Everyone who's anyone is here. Ingeborg is a 23 years old medium, roaming town on her own - for once. Johanne is a 56 years old diva, playing Medea at the National Theatre. Johan is a 53 years old 'fanatical rationalist', eager to voice his opinion. Aasta is dead - but not gone.

A huge clash between the old reformists and the new radicals is about to take place at the Labour Party congress on the 28th of March, 1918. But what on earth does the fairy tale of Veslefrikk have to do with Martin Tranmæl reaching parliament? Is this just another of those RAT-icals scheming shenanigans! Special guests in the show are Chantal Mouffe and Mímir Kristjánsson, to d

Rachel Grepp and Hanna Adolfsen, two leading ladies of the Women's Association of the Labor Party discuss sexism within the party, the workplace and the broader public sphere of Oslo. Along the way to the much anticipated Labor Party Congress of 1918 they meet their fellow comrade Martha Tynæs, who seems to believe that Bolshevism and agitation are the real contagions within the p

The two monolithic artists Edvard Munch and Gustav Vigeland go head-to-head in a rocking discussion about world politics, genius playwrights, and public sculptures in pandemic times. The scene is followed by a conversation between Rose Hammer and art historian/curator Kari Brandtzæg.