The Canadian Ambassador Kenneth Macartney invite listeners on a bike ride with interesting digressions.
1977 will Kenneth Macartney, from Canada to Sweden as a 18-year-old exchange student. He finds its way in, struggle with language (“Swedes are so good at English”) and finds many similarities between the two countries during their stay.
Already the year before, the young Kenneth before taking another long and unusual journey from his hometown of Victoria on Vancouver Island to Montreal – on bicycle. He and big brother bikes 500 mil 40 days to see the Olympics in 1976.
This arduous journey becomes the starting point for the Ambassador’s Summer program, where he talks about his homeland and sometimes draws parallels to Sweden. As with the Canadian artist group that was formed at the time of the First World War, the Group of Seven. Several of the artists had received their education in the UK and France, but it was only when inspired by Scandinavian painting as the group’s characteristic landscape painting took shape. The artists found a kinship with Zorn, Liljefors and Fjæstad.
The program is general education in a refreshing way and Kenneth Macartney looks at both Canada and Sweden with positive eyes. He highlighted the motto of Canada’s constitution, “peace, order and good government” and says that it can also apply to Sweden.
As the cycle huggers I become happy enlightenment to faithful from the 1970s still rolls, now in Stockholm. I call that a solid bike.
The last two sentences : “I have enjoyed the journey and hope that you, my fellow passengers, also have done it. Happy summer, everyone!”
Music Essentially Canadian pop and rock artists such as Bryan Adams, Joni Mitchell and Neil Young. KD Lang’s version of Leonard Cohen’s Bird on the Wire is a highlight.
Summer Host July 3: Saga Becker, actor.
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