58 Days of 'Sommar i P1': A Journey of Transformation?

Anna Gullberg embarks on an ultramarathon in service of the listeners, hoping to emerge on the other side renewed—joyful and enlightened.

COMMENTARY. Last year, I wondered why no summer host in 'Sommar i P1' except Little Jinder got to have fun, and wrote that the best thing the demon producer Bibi Rödöö knows must be summer hosts who are soon to die.

It was mean, sure, but I was so tired of trauma porn and dullness that I could barely turn on the radio, I mean the SR app.

This year, Bibi Rödöö has made a new policy decision—'Sommar i P1' will henceforth offer 'education and joy'. She tells DN (the house organ for those who want to know everything about what goes on in Rödöö's mind) that she 'seriously feels responsible for the time we live in'.

It's a heavy burden to bear.

But I'm no worse. I also feel a responsibility.

Unlike Rödöö, I also have a considerably large ego in this. Therefore, I solemnly promise to daily examine how well these high demands are met over three summer months.

But I do this only for the listeners, that time we live in, I judge is completely messed up for a long time.

I'm also curious if I can handle the challenge, or if I will falter somewhere in the middle, between artist Lotta Engberg's supposed 'joy of life' and Professor Yvonne Hirdman's likely 'education'.

After all, ever since the year Fredrik Virtanen invented the summer review, it's a sport not for the weakest of culture writers. And if you're going to manage to switch from summer sprint to summer ultramarathon, it requires not only a thick skin but also a winning mentality and a certain degree of madness. Plus the ability to write reviews with your thumbs on a mobile.

A bit like 'Naked and Afraid', but for a full 58 days in a row and with only the lousy SR app for support.

However, my forecast is that I will sail through at a cloudless height.

Bibbi, be ready with the summer wreath on August 17!