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Trumix.com listings available of Radio Sweden Weekday Edition Podcasts Build your own playlists with this podcast. Radio Sweden Jubilee 2008-09-03 Today we’re celebrating Radio Sweden’s 70th birthday with a full day of activities in Studio 5 at Broadcasting House in Stockholm. Our program today is a live broadcast from Studio 5, including a retrospective on our 70 years, and among our guests are Radio Sweden personalities from years past. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Sweden 2008-09-03 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Sweden 2008-09-02 Could adultery be in the genes? A new study says it might! Swedish politicians of all colours have been taking the temperature at the American party conventions, what do they think, and who should be the next president? And we meet the director of a new Swedish comedy. What happens when a gay couple think they are adopting a little baby, but instead get a 15 year old homophobic tearaway? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Sweden 2008-08-29 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Sweden 2008-08-28 Sweden`s Education Minister gets his figures mixed up, A Swedish Bank joins the fight against child pornography, Stockholm has been the host for almost 2 decades of the annual World Water Week. But what has it actually achieved? We take a look. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Sweden 2008-08-27 Russian irritation following Sweden’s criticism over the Georgia crisis. Islamic banking is on its way to Sweden. Tuesday saw the awarding of the Polar Music Prize. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 2008-08-26 Radio Sweden A German woman on trial for the killing of two children and the attempted murder of their mother is sent for psychiatric evaluation with the court saying there was convincing evidence to show she is guilty. Could thousands of English cancer patients be dying for no reason? Swedish researchers look how lives could be saved. Then we travel the globe once more for our fourth and final meeting with Swedish Radio’s foreign correspondents. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Sweden 2008-08-25 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Sweden 2008-08-22 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Sweden 2008-08-21 One hundred fifty-three lives are lost in the crash of an airliner belonging to a subsidiary of the Scandinavian Airlines. We talk to the winner of this year’s Stockholm Water Prize, who has no doubts about whether vegetarianism can help solve the world’s water scarcity. We also meet Swedish Radio’s correspondent in Moscow. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Sweden 2008-08-20 Radio Sweden Wednesday We visit a Swedish city that successfully conducts a campaign to reduce the emission of its greenhouse gases. We’ll also meet the Swedish Paralympic squad. And today’s program is brought to you by the letter ”Ö”. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Sweden 2008-08-19 Radio Sweden Tuesday The World Water Week - a mega conference with thousands of international delegates – but what has been achieved in two decades? Both the EU and the UN criticize Sweden for not doing enough against racial discrimination. And today’s program is brought to you by the letter ”Ä”. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Sweden 2008-08-18 What kind of picture do Swedes get of the world outside of Sweden? We ask the people whose job it is to tell them. Truth and Reconciliation for one of Europe`s most oppressed minorities. And today`s program is brought to you by the letter "Å". Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Sweden 2008-08-15 Coming up in this week’s edition of Inside Sweden: We meet the new head of the National Institute of Public Health, the first immigrant to ever hold that position. Then we’ll be visiting the Swedish Emigrant Insitute, the museum in southern Sweden dedicated to the more than one million Swedes who emigrated from this country to North America during the 19th century and early twentieth centuries. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Sweden 2008-08-14 Radio Sweden Thursday After rather disappointing results in the Beijing Olympics, Sweden’s hopes turn to the Paralympic team. The Viking Age is being resurrected at the town of Birka. Our daily language course finally reaches the letter “Z”. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Sweden 2008-08-13 Sweden is accused of racial discrimination - by the Swedish United Nations Association. The letter Y takes you to small town Sweden. And enjoy the music of Karl Martin Almqvist. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Sweden 2008-08-12 Radio Sweden Tuesday The conflict between Russia and Georgia continues - does Sweden have to rethink its security policy? And we’ll tell you why Swedes just love to sing in the public during the summer. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Sweden 2008-08-11 In today`s program with more Swedish news and voices, the Swedish Foreign Minister Calls for an immediate end to the bloodshed in the Russian-Georgian conflict. We also meet the Swedish American of the year and some Swedish fashion designers in this the biggest week in Sweden`s fashion year, and we`ll hear some more Swedish folk music. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Sweden 2008-08-08 Radio Sweden Friday Stockholm’s Nordic Museum invites immigrants to tell their stories in order to “commemorate migration”. We look at the prospects of the Swedish team as the Beijing Olympics finally kick off. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Sweden 2008-0807 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Sweden 2008-08-06 Radio Sweden Wednesday Focus on the cameras: Today we meet Sweden’s Lennart Nilsson, one of the world’s most renowned scientific photographers, and we get a glimpse of what Stockholm looked like 100 years ago. We’ll also continue with our language course as we reach the letter “V”. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Sweden 2008-08-05 In today’s program, we’re off to a Swedish pawnshop and to Stockholm`s Maritime Museum -- where the 70th birthday celebrations range from pirates and model ships to an exhibition about gay life on Swedish cruise liners in the 1950`s. We continue with our journey through the Swedish alphabet - landing on the letter “U” … and hear some Swedish medieval music - describing that heroic St. George and his battle with the dragon. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Sweden 080804 Swedes imprisoned abroad; just how many are there and what do we know about them? Also, Why Sweden is a world leader in Green technology.... Clip.. Bill Schiller is at the newsdesk and has today`s headlines.... BS And we kick-off a new week of ABC`s and discover the Swedish word for Thanks You... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Sweden 2008-08-01 Today`s program looks at a possible Truth and Reconciliation for one of Europe`s most oppressed minorities - the Roma, why the Swedish Helsinki Human Rights Committee is working on behalf of lesbians, gays, trans persons and bi-sexuals in Russia and the former Soviet Union, and some music from Swedish singers participating in the ongoing Europride-Stockholm event. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Sweden 2008-07-31 The hymen has been cause for debate here. Swedish experts say it doesn’t exist but many women have surgery to ensure blood on their wedding night. Politics and happiness. Can it work? The Green Party is all smiles. Today we bring you: the letter ”S” Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Sweden 2008-07-30 In today’s program, we’ll look at re-cyling in Sweden to save energy and resources, find out how big a business are Swedish weddings - getting ever more popular, continue with our journey through the Swedish alphabet - coming to the letter “R,” and bring you some Swedish folk music. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Sweden 2008-07-29 In today’s half hour from Radio Sweden, we attend an international conference here in the Swedish capital on the mass media, meet Barbara Hendricks, an American-born Swede with an international reputation - on the music stage and as a champion for human rights and continue with our July journey through the Swedish alphabet - coming to the letter “Q.” Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Sweden 2008-07-28 Divorces are creating rifts in the European Union. Sweden won’t back a new EU policy. Stockholm Pride is underway here in Stockholm and LGBT rights are top of the agenda. The letter ”P” makes a guest appearance. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Sweden 2008-07-25 In today`s program, we’ll meet another ambassador accredited to Stockholm – this time from South Africa. We’ll tell you what education opportunities there are in Sweden for mature students and we’ll hear some Swedish music helping to launch Europride celebrations in Stockholm – with its focus on the human rights, culture and visibility of gays, lesbians and trans persons in all of Europe. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Sweden 2008-07-24 While the country holds its breath waiting for a verdict in a high-profile murder case - is the media spinning out of control? We look at a case that has challenged Swedish praxis from the start. Can politicians convince you to move to Gotland? It’s proving to be a tough task. And the letter ”O” makes a guest appearance. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Sweden 2008-07-23 70 years ago Swedish trades unions and employers made a groundbreaking deal, setting the path for decades of economic stability. But is it now old hat? It was a night of disappointment for the Swedes at the DN Gala Athletics meet in Stockholm, And today`s program is brought to you by the letter "N". Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Sweden 2008-07-22 ”Late, late, late but good, good, good.” Swedish reaction to the arrest of war crimes fugitive Radovan Karadzic. And will survivors finally find peace? We go to a Stockholm suburb for one woman’s story. Also in today’s programme: a UNESCO World Heritage site and the letter ”M” stands for ”mycket.” Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Sweden 2008-07-21 In today`s program, we’re off to the Stockholm jazz festival and we’ll salute Sweden’s 18th Century poet and troubadour Carl Michael Bellman. We’ll also continue with our journey through the Swedish alphabet - today landing on the letter “L” and tell you about a very special 70th birthday coming up for Radio Sweden’s English language service. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Sweden 2008-07-18 Today`s program continues with meetings with foreign ambassadors accredited to Stockholm -- this time an envoy from New Delhi , looks at the adoption of foreign-born children here in this Scandinavian nation and presents some music from the ongoing Stockholm jazz festival on a downtown city island. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Sweden 2008-07-17 Radio Sweden Thursday An Internet-based DNA-test has given rise to both curiosity and criticism. Norway is going on a charm offensive to make Swedish consumers buy cod again. And in our ABCs we get to know the Swedish word for “maybe”. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Sweden 2008-07-16 The bus strike is over. Liberal Party bigwigs call on the government to think again over the FRA surveillance law. Some call it the last dictatorship in Europe, but what is life like as a journalist in Belarus? We`ll find out. And we`ll get all positive as we take a look at another letter of the Alphabet. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Sweden 2008-07-15 Swedish researchers link a lack of vitamin D to autism. Allsång på Skansen is in full swing! Swedes have been singing along since 1979. And in our ABCs: ”I” stands for ice. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Sweden 2008-07-14 The political week in Almedalen finally reaches it`s end with speeches from the two opposite sides of the political spectrum, the Conservative Moderates and the Left Party. The government of the autonomous Finnish Åland Islands, just off the Swedish coast, visits Stockholm, and we take a look at another letter in the Swedish Alphabet. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Sweden 2008-07-10 The Christian Democrats hit out at the xenophobic Sweden Democrats in Almedalen, Thousands of refugees from war-torn Somalia have moved to Sweden over the past decade, at a very special conference here in Stockholm many of them discussed the situation in their homeland. And in today`s look at the Swedish Alphabet, we look at a letter linked to every dentist`s worst enemy. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Sweden 2008-07-09 It`s the turn of the Social Democrats to speak at Almedalen, promising to scrap the controversial FRA bugging law. We find out exactly what it takes to become an astronaut, and then it`s time for our look at the Swedish Alphabet, which this time involves blood, sweat and for many Swedes, plenty of tears. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Sweden 2008-7-08 Join us at the biggest political event of the year: Almedalen. Maud Olofsson outlines her party as the green consciousness of the coalition government. But, do voters buy it? Support for the government has been plummeting. Today’s programme is brought to you by the letter ”E.” Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Sweden 2008-07-07 The annual Almedalen circus has begun, with politicians, lobbyists and basically anyone with an opinion trying to grab the headlines in Sweden`s biggest annual political get-together. We meet a couple of Arabic Children`s writers on a visit to Stockholm. And we continue our look at the Swedish alphabet, with a letter that conjures up images of Midsummer Celebrations, hills and revolution. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Sweden 2008-07-03 The Swedish government makes moves to fight organised crime by Motorcycle gangs, Ever miss the days of homework and essay writing? Well, it`s never too late to go back to school! and we give Sesame Street another run for their money and take a look at the letter "C". Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Sweden 2008-07-03 The Swedish government makes moves to fight organised crime by Motorcycle gangs, Ever miss the days of homework and essay writing? Well, it`s never too late to go back to school! and we give Sesame Street another run for their money and take a look at the letter "C". Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 080702 Radio Sweden We enter the competitive world of Free newspapers, 1.5 million readers in Stockholm alone, but are they any good? We meet more winners of the Anna Lindh Memorial prize including a young Swedish woman who`s converted to Islam and who wears a head scarf: And it`s day two of our journey through the Swedish alphabet. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 080627 Radio Sweden Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 080701 Radio Sweden Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Seden 2008-06-30 Visiting Sweden, the former secretary general of the United Nations calls for environmental justice for the developing world, killer slugs from Spain devoure Swedish flowers and crops, a boom in foreign tourists visiting Stockholm and Swedish music with a Brazilian flavor. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 080627 Radio Sweden Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Sweden 2008-06-26 How do you define a city? Who is in and outside a city? And does it matter? One Swedish researcher thinks so. And we`ll look at a very Swedish phenomenon that has listeners glued to their radios all summer. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Sweden 2008-06-25 A new survey reveals that Swedish kids have a nice relaxed childhood compared to other European youngsters, but that all changes when they hit 15. Find out why. Climate change in the Arctic is threatening indigenous species, such as the Arctic Fox. And foreign students` free rides at Swedish Universities could be reaching the end of the road. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Sweden 2008-06-24 We report on Swedish police and other European colleagues breaking up an international trafficking ring, look at urban development defining just what a modern city is, and then visit Stockholm`s Maritime Museum -- where the 70th birthday celebrations range from pirates and model ships to an exhibition about gay life on Swedish cruise liners in the 1950`s. And we’ll hear some new Swedish jazz - telling us just how dance-loving cowboys do the waltz. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 080623 Radio Sweden Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Sweden 2008-06-19 Sweden’s soccer dreams went up in smoke. We look at Sweden’s role in the ongoing EU dilemma. And why do the police feel they need to be more visible? That and more! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Sweden 2008-06-18 Big Brother faced a compromise as Swedish lawmakers voted on new email and phone monitoring legislation. If you’re a fan of mystery novels and crime scene television series - our reporter has a reality check for you as we report on the Stockholm Criminology Prize. And a hip Swedish songbird blasts off into Madonna’s world. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 2008-06-17 Radio Sweden As Sweden`s politicians debate the proposed controversial Surveillance Law, we ask whether Swedes see it as a threat to personal integrity. More police on the streets, Sweden`s boys and girls in Blue adopt a higher profile, but will it cut crime. And Swedish Brain researchers say they`ve solved the mystery of whether you`re born gay or not, Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Sweden 2008-06-16 Today`s program reports on the Swedish prime minister`s comments on the Irish referendum rejecting the European Union`s Lisbon Treaty, the Stockholm Criminology Award, a dialogue between Sweden and the Islamic world and a famous Swedish musician and composer who died in a diving accident. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Sweden 2008-06-13 Radio Sweden Friday The US Envoy to Sweden speaks out on the candidates of the 2008 presidential race. A Viking village is being rebuilt with old tools. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Sweden 2008-06-12 In today`s program: a slap at the Swedish center-right government for failing to prepare for a national disaster, and a Swede visiting from Hollywood - a winner of his 2nd Oscar for film sounds, a Swedish governmental commission calling for more Swedish language training as well as legal and social education for Moslem religious leaders working in this Scandinavian country and new Swedish jazz -- the Sound of Splendor in search of a mystical friend. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Sweden 2008-06-11 Wind energy is proving to be a force to be reckoned with in Sweden, We visit an exhibition celebrating the 150th anniversary of the birth of the Swedish author Selma Lagerlöf, and Sweden win their opening game in the 2008 European Football championships. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Sweden 2008-06-10 In today`s program, a Zimbabwean opposition leader visiting Sweden expresses hopes and fears for a new, democratic African nation. Efforts to give Moslem religious leaders in this Scandianvian country more knowledge about how Swedish society works. A visit to Stockholm’s open air amusement park and new Swedish folk music - with inspiration in text and melodies reaching back over the centuries. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Sweden 2008-06-09 In today`s program: The latest report from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute reveals that world military spending continues to grow, with nearly half of all arms purchases by the United States. Sweden’s national pharmacy chain is preparing to face private competition. And we investigate how successful Sweden is at “nation branding”. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Sweden 2008-06-05 We’ll be looking at the naked truth behind Sweden’s policy of neutrality and non-alignment. Is it all steam ahead for the Swedish economy or are global market shockwaves being felt here? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Sweden 2008-06-04 We’ll bring you news from the 4th International Polar Year. Swedish consumers are doing their bit to save the Baltic Sea’s cod stock. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 080603 Radio Sweden Will Sweden eliminate its stockpile of cluster bombs? What can be done to feed the World as Sweden`s Minister for Agriculture leads a Swedish delegation at the Rome summit on the global food crisis. The news in full coming up and We`ll also find out how Stockholm is trying to attract more airplane flights to the city to help boost tourism. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Sweden 2008-06-02 Radio Sweden Monday The World Newspaper Congress in Gothenburg discusses challenges for the freedom of the press The government has launched a set of subsidies to get people to get their teeth checked more often And young people gathered in Gothenburg for the ”Parliament of the Suburbs” Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Sweden 2008-05-30 Today`s programme will take a look at the big conference on the rebuilding of Iraq that was held here in Stockholm yesterday. If you`ve watched the tv news or tried to take a bus here in town you will know all about it. But what did they achieve? And what will the conference mean for the war torn country? Thousands of refugees have arrived in Sweden from Iraq over the past few years. Many of them having gone through horrible events, but how easy is it to get over them? And what help is the ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Sweden 2008-05-29 Sweden is hosting an international conference on Iraq Thursday, among the 100 participants the Secretary General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon, and American Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice. We’ll be also looking at Sweden’s refugee policies towards Iraq and exploring concerns that aid to the Palestinians is going wrong. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Sweden 2008-05-28 Today`s program lookas at new environmental moves by the Swedish government concerning electrically-driven automobiles and off-shore wind power, global efforts to give legal protection and economic power to the poor, an Australian here to receive her award from royal Swedish hands -- the world`s biggest prize for authors of children`s books and new a cappella versions of classical Swedish songs and poetry. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 080527 Radio Sweden The Largest police presence seen in Sweden for many years; The International Conference on Iraq takes place in Stockholm in just two days time, we look at what it hopes to achieve. Also, Long waiting lists, wrong diagnoses, and violations of a United Nations convention, just some of the criticism levelled at the mental health care given to young people here. And Kris Boswell investigates some strange goings on at the back of our studios here at Broadcasting house. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Sweden 2008-05-26 The Greens get serious at their Party Conference, 90 percent of Swedes say the authorities aren`t doing enough to combat discrimination, It`s half time for Sweden`s center-right coalition government, struggling in the opinion polls, how do they think they are doing? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Sweden 2008-05-23 Coming up in this week’s edition of Inside Sweden: What’s it like to be disabled, as well as an immigrant, in this country? 1968 saw youth revolts around the world, most notably the May 1968 strikes in Paris, and the demonstrations at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. That same spring forty years ago also saw the occupation of the student union building in Stockholm. We’ll also be looking at the plethora of free newspapers here, and how they are affecting the Swedish med ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Sweden 2008-05-21 Radio Sweden Wednesday The winners of the 2008 Polar Music Prize have been announced - but what is the award actually worth? What role can green technology play when it comes to reducing carbon dioxide emissions? From the oldest human remains in Europe to today - where do we actually come from? An exhibition at the Swedish Museum of Natural History looks for answers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Sweden 2008-05-20 Was it a Soviet submarine patrolling Swedish waters? More theories coming up. We’ll also be looking at the growing problem of motorcycle gang crime. Could Sweden double its efforts to cut greenhouse gasses? Environmental groups think they have the answer. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Sweden 2008-05-19 Cod is off the Swedish menu as overfishing scares off Swedish consumers, And it`s hard enough moving to a new country as it is, but what if you also have some kind of disability? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Sweden 2008-05-16 Coming up in this week’s edition of Inside Sweden: We visit a Stockholm recycling center to learn how Swedes dispose of their trash in a climate-friendly way. And this week marked the 60th anniversary of the state of Israel. We look at Swedish relations with the Jewish state, and concerns over the treatment of the Palestinians. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Sweden 080515 Hear all about the pro`s and cons of the European Blue card and Kris Boswell discovers a wealth of talent on offer at Sweden`s Top Art School. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Sweden 2008-05-14 Swedish, Israeli and Palestinian comments on this 60th anniversary of the birth of a nation, the Stockholm-based European Union Emergency Operations Center for Disease Prevention and Control, a top Swedish golf star has announced an end to her professional competitive career and new Swedish jazz located "In Another World." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Sweden 2008-05-18 We’ll be checking in on the International Polar Year. Does the European Elk hold the key to studying climate change? And the topic of many a Swedish conversation: the housing market. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Sweden 2008-05-12 Radio Sweden Monday As the nurses strike enters its fourth week - will public sympathy start to waiver? Our food can be a big contributor to climate change - what can we do about it? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Sweden 2008-05-09 he funeral takes place this weekend of a ten year old girl murdered on her way home from football practice, but the decision by SVT to broadcast the burial ceremony live on television has sparked heated debate. The seemingly endless violence in Somalia receives worldwide attention but the environmental degradation of the country including large deforestation and the dumping of nuclear waste receives little coverage. In today`s Inside Sweden we meet a somali man who`s set up a Somalian envi ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Sweden 2008-05-08 Gruesome revelations at Swedish cemeteries, Polar researchers gather in the north of Sweden to look at the effects of Climate Change, And the Tibetan issue continues to feature in the Swedish Media, with discussion over where sports and politics do really mix. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Sweden 2008-05-07 Radio Sweden Wednesday Foreign Minister Carl Bildt steps into the European spotlight as Sweden takes over the presidency of the Council of Europe on Wednesday. The head of Sweden’s Green Party Peter Eriksson tells us what he learned from fellow Green Parties during an international conference in Brazil. We visited a space recruitment center and found out what a tough ride it is to become an astronaut. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Sweden 2008-05-06 We’ll hear from the Swedish Red Cross as the death toll keeps rising after Cyclone Nargis. A highly contagious ’winter’ virus is becoming more resistant and threatens to plague Swedes year-round. And there’s another chance to hear the Swedish take on Public Service. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Sweden 2008-05-05 In today’s program: The Swedish nurses’ strike doubles in size - and spreads throughout the whole country, a Swedish visit byorganizers of an international campaign to focus on the human rights situation in Tibet - as China prepares for the Olympic Games, student parties in this Nordic nation as youngsters graduate from secondary school and new music from a highly-praised Swedish composer and guitar player. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Sweden 2008-05-02 RADIO SWEDEN FRIDAY The Social Democrats criticize the center-right coalition for what they call unnecessary tax cuts. Stockholm’s new mayor Sten Nordin tells us how he wants to govern the Swedish capital in future. And a conference in Uppsala debates the human right of sexual freedom. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Sweden 2008-04-30 In today’s program - a special look at the European Union’s proposed Lisbon Treaty and what it means for Sweden and the other EU members, a Swedish professor whose written a book about American presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, and some Swedish music connected to the politics and merry-making of exactly this time of year in this far northern nation eagerly waiting for spring. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Sweden 2008-04-29 Education, education, education. The Opposition Social Democrats present their shadow Spring Budget. Far-right organisations are getting more radical in order to get noticed, And warfare on the sexual barricades, a conference in Uppsala looks at questions of sexual health and education across the EU. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Sweden 2008-04-28 Dialogue instead of bombs and bullets. The American holding the first prestigious Anna Lindh Professorship shares her thoughts on the world. When it comes to selling Sweden’s Super fighter jet - there’s an interesting ”we will if you will” deal. The snail mail of a famous Swedish author is celebrated. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Sweden 2008-04-25 It`s that wonderful time of year again as over 7 million income tax return forms are sent off around the country. But it`s actually not as difficult as you might think, as the tax man is only a text message away. And food glorious food. Forget herring and meatballs, we take a look at Sweden`s new national dishes of Tacos, Pizza and Kebab. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Sweden 2008-04-24 The European Youth Parliament wasn’t afraid of controversial topics when they met here in Stockholm. And roll up, roll up! Sweden’s oldest fairground is about to re-open its doors for the 125th time! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Sweden 2008-04-23 Today`s includes Swedish schools reporting on more targeting from neo nazi groups, Sweden’s prestigious Crooford prize honoring pioneers in the international worlds of research in mathematics and astronomy, Stockholm trying to attract more airplane flights to the city to help boost tourism, and Swedish music saluting a tiny fellow no bigger than your thumb. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Sweden 2008-04-22 A Today`s program looks at a Swedish government- appointed study recommending that parents in Sweden sending underage children out of the country to compulsory marriages be sent to prison, the return to Stockholm harbor of one of the city`s most prominent tourist treasures -- a 19th century sailing ship, youngsters with foreign backgrounds learning their own languages at home in Sweden and Nordic rythms from a Danish-Norwegian group playing at a Stockholm jazz club. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 2008-04-21 Radio Sweden We take a look at photographic journalism in the developing world? Stereotypical portraits of poverty and hunger, or a way to prevent warfare and abuse? There were fears they would come in their hundreds of thousands just to rip off the Swedish Welfare State. But what did actually happen when the EU expanded into Eastern Europe 4 years ago? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Sweden 2008-04-18 In this edition of Inside Sweden we’ll meet the host of a radio program about the Swedish language, and talk a little about how immigrants have affected Swedish. Then the Swedish Parliament hosts a seminar about dialogue between the Western and Islamic worlds. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Sweden 2007-04-17 In today`s program: the Swedish political scene is rocked by the surprise resignation of the mayor of Stockholm, a little Swedish paper flower with a 100 year history helps the poorer children in this Nordic nation, why Swedes love to trade with Germany - but have lost much interest in the German culture and language and a brand new album of a harmonious Swedish singer and her musical colleagues. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Sweden 2008-04-16 It may not be boom times for the economy right now, but Sweden`s baby boom shows no sign of slowing down. Is Swedish development assistance doing enough to live up to its aims of fighting poverty, and promoting democracy and human rights, including the rights of women. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Sweden 2008-04-15 A long at Sweden`s Spring Budget and other news. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Sweden 2008-04-14 A surprise confession shocks the nation and the missing 10-year-old girl is found murdered. Swedish versus English - who will win the battle of the languages? And women are doing it for themselves - but how are they faring on the Swedish business scene? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Sweden 080411 As Sweden`s Prime Minister arrives in China for climate talks we hear from one of the leading figures in Sweden`s Tibetan community who says human rights in Tibet should be top of the agenda and Sweden should host any dialogue between chinese leaders and the Dalai Lama. And we`ll hear from Hans Caldaras, the leading Romani cultural personality in Sweden, reflecting on the issues facing his people today. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Sweden 2008-04-10 Stockholm’s horizon is recognizable once more - the ”af Chapman” youth hostel is afloat again. And all that jazz - Swedish style. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Sweden 2008-04-09 In today`s program from Radio Sweden: a top-level Swedish Norwegian dispute over whaling, a look back 40 years ago - when many Polish Jews forced to leave their country fled to Sweden, why more Swedish single women are determined to have babies - with the help of the medical system and some new Swedish music dedicated to the silver, gold and iron bells of human life and death. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 2008-04-08 Radio Sweden In today`s programme from Radio Sweden, the days top headlines... and: Sweden`s holy grail of neutrality... Just how holy is it really? And Sweden prides itself as an advocate of human rights. But there`s considerable criticism about the denial of healthcare to undocumented migrants here. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Sweden 2008-04-07 Radio Sweden Monday Opposition urges Prime Minister to take up human rights issue in talks with China Swedes will get to buy non-prescription drugs in ordinary supermarkets Stockholm tries to convince commuters to take the boat Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Sweden 2008-04-04 Today`s program looks at this week`s visit of the Turkish Prime Minister to Stockholm as seen by a Swedish parliamentarian for the opposition Green Party - a man with Turkish background, and how Swedes eager to reduce green house gas emissions are cutting down the energy used to heat our houses and apartments - and warm the bath water. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Sweden 2008-04-03 Membership in Sweden`s Social Democrat Party may be in sharp decline but there is hope for the future, according to its youth wing. Also in the programme, a famous building in Stockholm is celebrating its 80th birthday, with the help of two winners of the prestigious Nordic Literature Prize. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Sweden 2008-04-02 The government encourages people to love their dentists. Good or bad? Hear what editorial writers make of the postal merger. Goodbye pills and hello brisk walks. ”Physical activity” is on the prescription pad. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Sweden 2008-04-01 Today`s program reports on the Swedish government presenting its annual survey of human rights around the globe, on new Swedish government efforts to get more women into the world of business - running their own companies and on the boards of major firms, and on a top-level fued over the planned Stockholm museum devoted to the historical giants of Swedish pop -- ABBA. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Sweden 2008-03-31 Sweden`s state-owned liquor group is sold. Record number of AIDS patients. Time travel with us! Europeans just got older! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Sweden 0328 Post-Traumatic stress, insomnia, headaches, just some of the psycholigical problems encountered by volunteer doctors working with undocumented migrants, denied access to regular healthcare. We meet a doctor from one of these underground clinics and discover a world of fear and despair. And joining us on Inside Sweden, Izzy Young, renowned figure in the world of folk music ,long time resident of Stockholm and early promoter of Bob Dylan.. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Sweden 2008-03-27 It’s party time for graduating students. But there’s a dark side as well. The 1970s and 80s produced a flurry of reports from global commissions. But are we any wiser today? Our new shortwave schedule comes into effect on March 30. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Sweden 2008-03-26 As precious water resources go down the toilet - we look at the water cycle that many of us would prefer not to talk about. Globalization - the friend or the enemy of international solidarity? With Daylight Savings Time comes our new shortwave schedule! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Sweden 2006-03-25 Terrorism and insurgency, successes and failures ... researchers and security experts had a lot to talk about here in Stockholm. Germany is Sweden`s largest trading partner. But is the relationship at risk? Swedes seem to show no interest in the country or the language. And some news from us! Our shortwave schedule changes on March 30th - have pen and paper at the ready! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Sweden 2008-03-24 Today`s program from Radio Sweden once again comes from the Royal Dramatic Theater here in Stockholm -- celebrating the 100 year birthday of the imposing marble building and the 220th anniversary of the creation of the theater itself by command of the king. We meet some of those working at the theater at it`s Stockholm waterfront home -- and at the newer site of the theater`s modern, experimental stage -- a converted electricity plant just down the road. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Sweden 2008-03-21 Easter is a very special holiday season in Sweden, with many customs going back to the Middle Ages. Today with our host George Wood we`ll be exploring those traditions as well as some modern changes. We`ll learn about the Easter witches who go trick or treating on Holy Thursday and travel -- at least in myth -- to the spooky Blue Mountain, and we`ll visit the open air cultural museum Skansen to find out about Easter food. We also take you to Stockholm`s Sofia Church where there are many cel ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Sweden 080320 The government backs down on its heavily criticised medical coverage proposal. Road Chaos is expected for the Easter weekend. And Carolina Kluft says goodbye to the