The

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''Saturday Show'', with

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and Kim Loughran, ran from 1967 to 1981. The program was launched to showcase

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and pop music, especially the Swedish progressive music or alternative music scene, in a world dominated by American and British rock. Using Radio Sweden's relatively high-powered medium wave transmitter on 1179 kHz, the entire program was 90 minutes in length, and features many satirical sketches, often political and sometimes controversial. A 30-minute segment of the entire broadcast was the Radio Sweden

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program on Saturdays. Sidney Coulson ("the Major General"), Jonny Mair, and George Wood often lent their voices to the sketches.

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