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Claes Elfsberg is one of the hosts in Winter at P1.
It arrives within three minutes of the winter talk.
It’s so smooth and laconic it’s hardly noticeable, but make no mistake.
Claes Elfsberg jokes.
It opened with a scene from a store, where a clerk sobs appreciates the programs “Pain and I” that aired during the fall. The 60-year-old insists that she must be nice from now on, and then if you listen closely, you’ll hear a sensational display of Claes Elfsberg’s humor.
– It’s unusual for sellers to cry when I buy, he says deliberately dry, to accentuate the strange statement.
I underline the words because the whole act of Claes Elfsberg has been serious. For five decades he has been informing us about the situation, about buyback rates and murder victims, about government formations and strikes. Always correct, never fiery or outraged.
After the initial fun follows an hour and a half without smiles. This is not a complaint, just an index for a winter show that does not have a common thread, but can be divided into three topics.
First a piece about grief, where he thanks himself for more stories of devastated viewers who want to describe their losses. Elfsberg can no longer bear it, email makes him fall into his own darkest corners, so he asks people to seek professional help or turn to a religious congregation.
The party in the middle deals with age discrimination, that is, the same topic that it dealt with in the series of reports “Köttberget deviates” in 2015.
He complains about SVT’s eager attempts to rejuvenate his schedule and the imposed music that drowns out what is being said. Produces statistics on the increase in life expectancy and the desire to live 120 years.
Two percent of Riksdag members are over 65, which should be compared to 28 percent of voters.
– What if the proportion of women in the Riksdag was the same? The 72-year-old woman reasoned.
The last part is about the traps in the construction industry and modern slavery, where the poor are used to build our houses while millions of people are said to go to the Russian mafia. These are notable statements that you would have liked to delve into further.
Sure, the other elements of the program are relevant, but to hear him talk about them, it is enough to activate SVT Play.
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