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The BBC is to broadcast a mini series from today, called Don’t Ever Wipe Tears Without Gloves, which is a drama set in Stockholm in the 1980s during the AIDS epidemic.

by Newsdesk | 2nd December 2013

Don’t Ever Wipe Tears Without Gloves is a 3×60-minute drama series about love in the shadow of AIDS, set in Stockholm in the 1980s.

When Rasmus and Benjamin meet at a party they fall instantly and deeply in love. For a short time their happiness continues until suddenly young men start to get sick, fade away and die. AIDS has come to Stockholm and nothing will ever be the same.

The series has been acquired for BBC Four by BBC’s Head of Acquisitions, Sue Deeks, who says: “This is a beautifully realised drama about the early years of the AIDS epidemic which has a poignant and affecting love story at its heart – we are so pleased to be able to bring it to BBC Four viewers.”

Set in Sweden, the series was a huge public and critical success when aired and it recently won the Kristallen (Swedish Emmy) for Best Television Drama. Don’t Ever Wipe Tears Without Gloves also won the Audience Award at the Series Mania Festival in Paris last April, in competition with American TV dramas such as Game Of Thrones and House Of Cards.

It is directed by Simon Kaijser and written by renowned author Jonas Gardell, after his series of books with the same title. It is an in-house SVT production with Maria Nordenberg as executive producer.

The series will air later this year on BBC Four to mark World Aids Day.

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