The Stoltenbergs

Jens Stoltenberg has been on our TV screens throughout the Ukraine crisis, ashen-faced and compelling, but never sabre-rattling. This week’s podcast looks at Norway’s history as a peace broker, and how the Stoltenberg family’s roles in public service has placed it at the centre of social change.

EPISODE PHOTO 
Jens Stoltenberg speaks at a service commemorating the one year anniversary of the 2011 attacks.
Fornyingsdepartementet, 22 juli 2012, CC BY 2.0
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=36080239

THANKS to actor Solveig M. Boyle for vocal contribution

LINKS & SOURCES
Speeches by Jens Stoltenberg retrieved from:
https://www.regjeringen.no/no/dokumentarkiv/stoltenberg-ii/smk/taler-og-artikler/2011/statsminister-jens-stoltenbergs-tale-pa-/id651840

https://www.regjeringen.no/en/topics/foreign-affairs/peace-and-reconciliation-efforts/innsiktsmappe/norway-peace-work/id446704/

https://www.regjeringen.no/en/topics/foreign-affairs/peace-and-reconciliation-efforts/innsiktsmappe/peace_efforts/id732943/

https://www.f-b.no/nyheter/krig/sor-amerika/petter-skauen-fra-fredrikstad-sentral-bakmann-bak-fredsavtalen-i-colombia/s/5-59-530284

https://www.nrk.no/osloogviken/petter-skauen-70-ar-1.11929162

https://www.dagsavisen.no/kultur/2014/09/01/hyllest-til-en-levende-helt/

https://forskning.no/historie-krig-og-fred-norges-forskningsrad/slik-ble-norge-en-fredsnasjon/190736

MUSIC
00:00 North by Norway
Andrew J. Boyle, using the Norwegian folksong ‘I Ola-dalom, i Ola-tjønn’

00:53 Stand Together
Andrew J. Boyle

03:20 I Ola-dalom, i Ola-tjønn
Edvard Grieg, op. 66, no. 14

15:33 Sonata
Edvard Grieg, Op. 7, second movement


All music performed on GarageBand by Andrew J. Boyle