Benny showed programme host Ernie Dingo around Stockholm and his luxury hotel, the Hotel Rival in Stockholm where every one of the 99 rooms had a teddy bear.

The hotel also boasts a cinema, bistro, café, bar and Benny reckoned, the best bakery in Stockholm. One of the hotel rooms had an ABBA picture on the wall (in fact there are at least two rooms with ABBA pictures on the walls).

Benny thanked the Australians for their huge part in ABBA's success and plays a small snippet of Fernando on the piano which turned into Waltzing Matilda!

The first part of the programme showed Ernie highlighting various places around Stockholm including the Royal Palace, Vasa Museum, Gamla Stan and Skansen.  Benny's bit was in the second part of the programme

Pictures 2 and 3 above are from a very short trailer for the programme.

There were a couple of pre-programme trailers for the programme.

It looks like the Seven Network Australia have blocked the Stockholm section of the programme on YouTube which is a shame, but at least it's not the Benny bit (yet!).

Teaser before the main programme:
Ernie Dingo: OK everybody you're all invited to Benny's place. Plenty of room haven't you mate?
Benny: 99 rooms!

Main programme:
ED: Now you know the stories about rock bands when they turn up to a hotel and run amok and chuck tellies out the window, well you can do that at this hotel.
BA: NO! You cant do that here!
ED: No?
BA: That's right, because all the plasmas are bolted to the walls so its impossible.
ED: Oh, so we'll just go and take a look then?
BA: Sure

ED: Yep we're camping at Benny's place, a.k.a. The Rival Hotel. Remember we are in Stockholm, Sweden where the whole ABBA thing kicked off. Now some people might pretend they didn't go for ABBA but in the 70s, they were definitely pop royalty. Back then ABBA-mad manics had to sneak into the bands hotels. These days your welcome at Benny's place anytime. The Rival, what hotel-types might call a boutique hotel, not to big and a bit different. Yep. that's a bed in the foyer.
BA: We didn't want the hotel to ... well not be too formal, too flashy, not too extravagant, but nice and sort of "homey".
ED: This is more of a Swedish theme isn't it?
BA: Because I know nothing about actually running hotels, but I know what it is to stay in one so....
ED: You've had hands on though , in the beginning...
BA: Absolutely, absolutely in every detail.
ED: I gotta ask you this mate?
BA: Yeah?
ED: There's a little Teddy Bear...
BA: Yeah that's true , every room has a teddy
ED: Every room has a little Teddy
BA: and In three years only one teddy bears has disappeared
ED: can you make that 2 in 3 years? (laughing)
BA: you can have him
ED: So theres a bear in every room, all 99 of them and people as well, movie stars actually, 'cause down stairs The Rival has a cinema. The hotel's got a bistro too, a cafe, the original art deco bar, complete with mood lighting, and according to my mate Benny the best bakery in Stockholm. ABBA sold over 350 million records, now that's a lot to be proud of, but you won't find a more humble bloke than Benny.
BA: If it wasn't for the Australians, I'm not so sure that this thing with ABBA would have happened, I must tell you that because it was pretty cold, we had this Eurovision Song Contest win in 1974, means nothing to the rest of the world but is good for Europe, and in 1974 after that I think ABBA was a dead duck, nobody cared, nobody really cared about the next record that came out, the one with SOS and Mamma Mia and all those. And all of a sudden they started playing these songs in Australia, this might be something, so after SOS and Mamma Mia in Australia. That's when it all really started, all around the globe. So we're all members of ABBA very grateful for the Australians.
EA: And there something else Benny likes about Australians
ED: You have horses?
BA: I do, racehorses, yes,since 20 years back and I breed them, and I race them, and it's not a good business to be in, but its fun.
ED: We have a race in Australia, that...
BA: I know,and its one of my.actually if there's one race I'd like to win, it would be the Melbourne Cup.
ED: You still get time to play music?
BA: OH, you bet, I work every day, I try to write music everyday. Because thats what I do, the hotel is nice, but it's , more for fun, music is for real.

Benny played Fernando on the piano which morphed into Waltzing Matilda. Eddie roared with laughter.
 

ED: I don't remember that bit in the song?
BA: That's a great song by the way
ED: It's unbelievable. Well mate we've got just one thing left to say ...

Thank You For The Music played


Thanks to Carolyn Styles who transcribed this for ABBAMAIL (no longer online)

Thanks to Graeme Read, Philip Muytjens, Harold Hanlon, Carolyn Styles, Trudy Wilkie, Ian Cole and Luke Rogers all c/o ABBAMAIL (no longer online).