Old newspapers, strange weeks, sharp hindsight.
Tillbaka Till Dåtiden Podcast turns specific weeks from the past into conversational newspaper archaeology. A year such as 1900, 1939, 1969, 1979, 1980, 1987, or 1993 becomes a collage of war headlines, pop songs, football, scandals, public health, and odd local notices.
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Tillbaka Till Dåtiden Podcast is built around a simple historical engine: choose a year, choose a week, read the newspapers, and see what the past has left lying around. The excerpts show Swedish papers acting as the show’s main source material, especially Svenska Dagbladet and Dagens Nyheter. What comes out is not a tidy chronology. It is a spread of public life as it appeared at the time, with world events, entertainment, sport, political anxiety, and small notices pressed together on the same page. One visit to 1900 brings the Boer War, Paul Kruger, religious language, and reported apparitions. A 1939 week carries the approach and outbreak of the Second World War alongside Swedish football scheduling. The 1969 material can move through professional boxing, Beatles lore, Swedish chart music, and a cold hot dog dispute. In 1979, the Iran hostage crisis and the Anthony Blunt spy scandal sit near discussion of microwave snacks. In 1987, Bob Dylan, HIV debate, the AIDS delegation, and Swedish political criticism all pass through the conversation. A 1993 episode reaches from post-Cold War troop withdrawals to rural depopulation campaigns and a planned book burning. The show’s method gives history a cluttered, lived-in texture. Large events are never sealed off from jokes, misunderstandings, pop culture, or local bureaucracy. Its rhythm is chatty and associative, but the hook is archival: old newspapers keep producing details that feel too specific to have been invented. The speakers often pause over what surprises them, whether that means a forgotten public debate, a cultural coincidence, or an awkward headline from another era. The comedy comes from reaction rather than sketch performance. The history comes from accumulation rather than grand thesis. It suits a listener who likes the past when it is concrete, printed, and a little unruly. Instead of smoothing a decade into a lesson, Tillbaka Till Dåtiden Podcast lets one week reveal how strange ordinary history can be.
Made for: Suits a listener who enjoys Swedish history through newspapers, detours, and conversational discovery. It fits someone who wants world events and small absurdities in the same frame.
What sets it apart: The show’s strength is its week-by-week newspaper method, where major historical events share space with sports notices, pop culture, public campaigns, and local oddities. It feels less like a lecture than a guided rummage through what a particular moment thought mattered.
Tomas Kullshage och David Scodavolpe väljer ett år, en vecka och varsin dagstidning och diskuterar sedan innehållet tillsammans. Här avverkas små iakttagelser och storpolitiska händelser varvat med sport, nöjen och märkliga annonser. Support this show at http://supporter.acast.com/tillbakatilldatiden Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/tillbakatilldatiden. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Anthony Blunt's spy scandal or Paul Kruger's sideburns? Your history appetite needn't choose.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A loose 1969 time capsule where boxing, Beatles lore, hockey, and Swedish pop keep bumping into one another.
This single-episode review treats 1969 as a loose meeting point for several odd collisions: a proposed six-month prison term for a boxing-like move, a looming hockey final between the Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia, and a Beatles song caught in an unexpected authorship dispute.
A return to 1900 turns war, faith, Kruger's sideburns, and apparitions into a curious historical wander.
Episode 131 makes a second stop in 1900 and keeps its attention moving: the Boer War, Paul Kruger's religious framing of politics, Kruger National Park's recent founding, and the odd visual question of why his sideburns disappear in old illustrations.
A strange turn from post-Cold War Europe to a planned 1993 book burning gives "Bokbal" its edge.
"Bokbal" starts with post-Cold War Europe, then lets the conversation take a stranger path into a planned book burning in 1993. The shift works because the episode does not try to tidy up the connection.
From disputed goals to children's hidden worlds, the episode studies how rules and imagination shape experience.
The episode frames football technology as a slow broadening of official intervention, moving from the disputed 1966 goal to goal cameras in 2014 and VAR at the 2018 World Cup.
A postponed football match makes the approach of war visible in routines people are still trying to preserve.
The episode tracks the uneasy passage from August into September 1939, as war shifts from distant warning into the texture of ordinary planning.
Ten songs, deep shelves, loud opinions.
Forgotten history with a crooked smile.
Thomas Kulsaga and David Skoda-Volpe use 1969 Swedish newspaper fragments to move from Herman Kling's six-month boxing proposal to Mao Tse-tung's Beijing appearance.
["Episode 131 of Back to the Past returns to 1900 and links the discussion to episode 11, \"Cash,\" and the Boer War.", "Thomas Kulsaga and David Skoda-Volpe move through tyske spelkort, l\u00e5ntennis, and the 32-letter headline \"hj\u00e4rnhinneinflammationsepidemien.\"", "The main historical stretch covers H\u00f6torget's 1,200-horse m\u00f6nstring, 60 new droskor, and an automobil imported by Kronprinsen Gustav that still needed pushing at Djurg\u00e5rden.", "Later sections follow Paul Kruger sideburns in London, Richard Tellstr\u00f6m's coronavirus-era food-history argument, and a 14-year-old in Piemonte who says she saw Ljungfru Maria."]
Tillbaka Till Dåtiden Podcast examines 1980 through Evert Taube anecdotes, Artemisia Gentileschi's overlooked career, changing agricultural research, and future food production.
Tillbaka Till Dåtiden Podcast #129, Bokbål i Rättvik, växlar mellan sovjetiska trupptillbakadraganden, svensk bilhandel 1993 och ett planerat bokbål i Rättvik.
The episode's clearest hook is the football section, where goal-line technology and VAR turn a 2014 Brazil World Cup column into a debate about fairness and emotion.
["Tillbaka Till D\u00e5tiden Podcast episode #127, \"V\u00e4rlden rasar samman\", reads Swedish newspaper coverage from August 28, 1939 into the first days of September as Hitler, Daladier, Chamberlain, and Henderson move toward war over Poland and Danzig.", "Thomas Kulsaga and David Skoda-Volpe use the archive to point at wartime details in Sweden: steel-helmet ads, Bonnier Europakarta maps, M\u00f6ller's private-car ban, and postcard and coffee restrictions.", "The episode also follows how the war spills into daily life, from sn\u00e5lsoppa and gas-station queues to the cancelled Sweden-Germany football match and later games at R\u00e5sunda.", "It closes with two nonwar stories that still get buried by the news cycle: the Sand\u00f6 bridge collapse with 18 deaths and Sally Bauer's 15-hour-22-minute English Channel swim."]
Tillbaka Till Dåtiden Podcast #126 examines Swedish and international newspaper stories from 18–25 May 1987, including Bob Dylan's planned Sweden tour with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers.
Tillbaka Till Dåtiden Podcast #125, “Telefonsvararen,” revisits November 1979 through Iran, ABBA, espionage and household technology.
Tillbaka Till Dåtiden Podcast, avsnitt 124, granskar en vecka i maj 2001 genom dokusåpor, fotboll, dödsrunor och tv-historia.
Two hosts pick a year and week, then discuss the contents of old newspapers, covering news, sports, entertainment, and ads.
Two hosts review old newspapers from a specific week and year, discussing news, ads, and cultural tidbits.
Two hosts discuss a 1996 Swedish newspaper, covering sports, news, and nostalgic memories.
Two hosts discuss old newspapers from a specific year and week, sharing observations on historical events, sports, entertainment, and advertisements.