TV: Tears for souvenirs in 1980s Stockholm

Don’t Ever Wipe Tears Without Gloves differs in several significant ways from the kind of thing you normally find clogging up the parched summer schedules

Adam Pålsson and Adam Lundgren in Don’t Ever Wipe Tears Without Gloves (RTE 2)

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Like all broadcasters, RTE resorts to all manner of desperate measures to fill the dog days of the summer months: re-runs of cheesy 1990s sitcoms and third-rate movies, repeats of documentaries that originally went out just a few months earlier, syndicated wildlife shows, ten million episodes of Law & Order Special Victims Unit. In ...