Banda is a narrative podcast production company based in Stockholm, founded by Robert Barkman and Hugo Lavett, both award-winning radio journalists and producers with over ten years of experience. As the podcast medium has reached a golden age, Barkman and Lavett started their own company in 2019.

Banda’s line of work includes investigative journalism and true crime, as well as drama and fiction — fantastic stories told with sound. It is clever. It is ingenious and creative. They focus on strong characters and on engaging the listener emotionally and instinctively. Banda collaborates with e.g. Spotify, Swedish Radio, NRK, Svenska Dagbladet, Podme, Acast and Indio.

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Albatros Agency represents Banda’s film and TV rights.

Agent: Gro Janarv and William Crona


Podcast productions - selection

Untitled - 2022
Investigative podcast series to be released Q1 2022.
Reporters and editorial staff: Lovisa Lamm Nordenskiöld and Hugo Lavett.

Smuggelaffären / The Skull by the Border - 2022
A true crime mystery tale. A skull is found in a field in the Swedish countryside, near the Norwegian border. The investigation to find out who the skull belonged to opens the door into an inhuman network where people are dispensable, and quickly forgotten once they’re gone. In collaboration with Norwegian podcast production company Svartrost.

Skuggstad / Shadow City - Spotify - 2021
About the crimes - and most importantly the criminals - who get the evil eye at your local supermarket. A podcast series.
Reporter: Sigge Dabrowski
Editorial staff: Tom Henley, Josephine Schneider and Hugo Lavett.
Tjackfällan / “The Amphetamine Trap” - LINK
Gräskungen i Eksjö / The Weed King - LINK
Miljardbluffen i Trelleborg / “The Million Dollar Fraud” - LINK
Boxaren och torpeden / “The Boxer and the Hit man” - LINK

Medicinmannen / The Medicine Man - Svenska Dagbladet - 2021
A mysterious man creates a utopian society i Sollefteå, way up in the North of Sweden. More and more people join the group. He claims to descend from a Native American tribe and to be chosen to save the planet. Who is this man really?
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Vem mördade Sveriges statsminister? / Who killed Sweden’s Prime Minister - NRK - 2020
A documentary about the shocking murder of Olof Palme from a Norwegian point of view.
Reporter: Lovisa Lamm Nordenskiöld.
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Olöst #2 Konstkuppen / Unsolved #2 The Art Coup - Spotify - 2020
A November day in 1993 eight works of art by Pablo Picasso och Georges Braque was stolen from the Modern Museum of Art in Stockholm. The Coup is as spectacular as unexpected, the artworks add up to 50 million euros. Up until this day one piece of art is still missing.
Reporter: Sara Olsson
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Olöst #1 Porrmorden / Unsolved #1 The Porn Murders - Spotify - 2019
Stockholm 1989. Three cashiers at a porn video store are brutally murdered at three different occasions. The Police searched for a suspected serial killer at the time, but the murders have remained an unsolved riddle for over 30 years.
Reporters: Arvid Hallberg and Evalisa Wallin
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DNA - Naudio - 2021
A history of DNA in relation to forensic technology.
Reporters: Sara Olsson and Simon Moser
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Sångfågeln från Söderhamn / The Songbird from Söderhamn - Swedish Radio P4 - 2021
Monica Törnell suddenly disappears from a peaking music career as a touring and recording artist. What happened?
Reporter: Sara Olsson
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UFO-podden / The UFO podcast - Swedish Radio - 2017-2019
Dramatized stories about UFO’s based on real events.
Host and written by: Moa Gammel
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