Bosse Lindquist, born in 1954, is a Swedish radio and TV producer and writer. Directing of investigative documentaries at Swedish Television’s Documentary department since 2012. Past Ander Visiting Professor of Global Media studies at Karlstad University and former head of the national radio broadcaster Swedish Radio’s Documentary Deptartment. Has won numerous awards. Documentaries and books have penetrated as diverse subjects as modern genetics and prenatal diagnostics, extreme and secret Swedish maoist groups, Swedish support of the Pol Pot regime, adoption from South Korea to Sweden. Lindquist’s documentary, Give Us the Money was part of the Why Poverty series of documentaries, broadcasted worldwide by BBC, SVT, Arte, PBS and more than 70 other countries November, 2012. The film traces rock musicians Bono and Bob Geldof’s decade long lobbying and advocacy against extreme poverty in Africa. Most recently, Lindquist’s Double Bookkeeping - on financial and auditing mispractices and illegalities at global forestry giant Stora Enso - was broadcast in Sweden and Finland 2013. |
Moral panics or just panic?
"The rules of the game at The Battle of Ideas makes beating about the bush impossible. When you are given 5 minutes to make your point, you either say something essential, or you reveal that you have nothing really to say. This eliminates 'the unbearable lightness' of speculation that haunts public debate."
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