D Carleton Gajdusek won the Nobel Prize for the discovery of Prions - the particles that would emerge as the cause of Mad Cow disease - while working with a cannibal tribe on New Guinea. He was a star of the scientific world. Over his years working amongst the tribes of the South Seas, he adopted 57 kids, bringing them to a new life in Washington DC. His adoptions were hailed as wonderful fatherly beneficence. But, at the height of his career, rumours began to spread he was a paedophile. Gajdusek would argue that if sex with children was okay in their own cultures, he wasn't wrong to join in. How could a great mind like Gajdusek's lose insight so totally, and why would the scientific community to which he was a hero be so quick to leap to his defence and dismiss the allegations? (Storyville)
A K-Special on the theme of Public Service where satirgänget Public Service from Sveriges Radio's Good Morning, the world! take us on a journey in today's media world. Today's sketches heckled politicians and media celebrities interspersed with voices from Public Service antiquity. The debate from the start of Sweden's Television and our relationship with the Dear TV and radio. Who should own and who should decide and how should it sound?
Inga Tidblad started acting in 1921 and became one of Sweden's greatest and most successful actresses of all time. Daughter Meg Westergren, colleagues Bibi Andersson, Helena Bergström, Thommy Berggren och Sven Wollter are a few who talk and remembers her as a person and as an actor.
