Gullan Bornemark

1961 - the year when Swedish UN soldiers are in the crisis-ridden Congo and Secretary General Dag Hammarskjöld dies in a plane crash. Swedish film's biggest hit, "Are there angels?", has its premiere with Christina Schollin in one of the roles. Yuri Gagarin becomes the first man in space and the Volvo P 1800 appears on the roads. Ewy Rosqvist is a rally ace and in April the regal ship Vasa is lifted up after 333 years at the bottom of Stockholm's stream. In August, the Berlin Wall is built and outside the Stockholm archipelago, Radio Nord broadcasts music and news.

Music director Gullan Bornemark became known as "Aunt Gullan" to an entire nation when she sang her own songs on television. She modernized the children’s song, and generations of Swedes can sing along to the choruses of "Min kära lilla ponny" and "Sudda sudda (bort din sura min)." She wrote 400 songs and received her first Grammis award in 2019, at the age of 91.