This friday’s recommendation will be tough for non-Scandinavians. Come on, a TV series about Swedish dialects? But yes. In the programmes (many still available from the web page) Fredrik Lindström (photo) is the cool flaneur who travels around Sweden and discovers all the idiosyncrasies and historical peculiarities of dialect. Interviews with real people are interspersed with short excursions into history. In the programme about Stockholm, we learn through a young web development guy that home page is not “hemsida” any longer, but “hemsa”! Which inspires a new stroll into the archeology of language from Mr. Lindström. A piece of public TV at its best. Maybe television is the future after all?