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Episode7: Finnish Punk and Bordertown
Noir Hear This
English - May 09, 2018 06:15 - 21 minutes - 39.2 MB - ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsTV & Film sbs radio Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Previous Episode: Episode 6: The Bridge
Next Episode: Episode 8: Stieg Larsson Redux
Bordertown is one the most successful Finnish crime TV series to date. It’s set on the sensitive border between Finland and Russia. We meet its creator Miikko Oikkonen. Antti Tuomainen is part of the new wave of Finnish Nordic Noir writers. His dexterity with language and unusual subject matters have brought him an international cult following. Kati Hiekkapelto is a singer in the Finnish punk band Parrakas nainen (The Bearded Woman). She lives on an isolated island in the Baltic Sea. From there she writes about Detective Fekete, an immigrant from the former Yugoslavia.