Swedish Radio Podcasts
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Six months to the week since the start of the Russia invasion, we speak to Swedish Radio foreign correspondent, Johan Mathias Sommarström, who has spent many of the past months in Ukraine.
Ukrainians in Stockholm share their views on six months of war. Also, tradition against convenience? - early election voting has begun in Sweden and we find out if people like to vote ahead of polling day. And we've a feature on Håkan Hellström, one of Sweden's biggest music stars who is relatively unknown abroad.
Produced and presented by Dave Russell.
Reporters: Alex Maxia and Karl Volkohon.
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Julian Assange is a controversial name that divides the public in either pro or against him as a person. But what is the real story behind it all?
In this episode (in english, after a brief introduction in Swedish) Cyril and Stig meets with Nilz Melzer who after intense studying of the case has written a book called The Trial Against Julian Assange (in swedish Fallet Juian Assange), and Nils Melzer is not just anyone ...
Nils Melzer, UN Special Rapporteur on Torture, started his investigation into how the US and UK governments were working together to ensure a conviction. His findings are explosive, revealing that Assange has faced grave and systematic due process violations, judicial bias, collusion and manipulated evidence. He has been the victim of constant surveillance, defamation and threats. Melzer also gathered together consolidated medical evidence that proves that Assange has suffered prolonged psychological torture.
Stig Larsson is a famous Swedish writer, poet and play writer translated into 26 languages. His plays has been performed all over tve world.
Cyril Hellman is a Swedish journalist and author. He has been a US correpondence in New York, written for several Swedish daily papers and international magazines, worked for Swedish Radio and Television and covered tha war in Iraq and Syria.
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Climate activist Greta Thunberg urges world leaders to do more. Doing our best is no longer good enough. We must now do the seemingly impossible, Thunberg says in the Swedish Radio show Summer on P1 where she takes us along her trip to the front lines of the climate crisis.
Alla Sommarprat finns att lyssna på i Sveriges Radio Play.
– We don’t accept these odds.That was Greta Thunberg’s principal message while speaking before the General Assembly of the United Nations last year. It referred to the remaining CO2-budget of humanity.
– But the only message that seems to have resonated is “how dare you”, she says in the beginning of her Program, Summer on P1, a well-known Swedish Radio Show.
After her speech, Greta and her father travel through 37 states in total.
– Apart from a few wind power plants and solar panels, there are no signs whatsoever of any sustainable transition, despite this being the richest country in the world.
She has been discouraged from visiting the state of Alberta in Canada, but goes there anyway. Alberta is one of the western world’s largest oil producers and has a very powerful and aggressive oil lobby.
– On several occasions I need to call for police protection when the level of threats and the sheer harassments become too serious, she witnesses in her program.
On her way to Jasper Nation Park she drives through magnificent pine forests, but many trees aren’t green, their needles are either brown or have been lost entirely. She visits the Athabasca glacier and on her way up to the glacier she can see the signs of how the glacier has disappeared meter by meter, it is currently withdrawing five meter every year. The last 125 years the glacier has lost half of its volume, due to global heating.
– This year – 2020 – the emission curve must be bent steeply downwards, if we are to still have even a small chance of achieving the goals that world leaders have agreed to, says Greta Thunberg. Either we go on as a civilization, or we don’t. Doing our best is no longer good enough. We must now do the seemingly impossible. And that is up to you and me. Because no one else will do it for us.
About GretaThunbergGreta Thunberg sailed the Atlantic Ocean to meet with the world leaders at the UN Climate Summit 2019.
Started to school strike for climate change outside of the Swedish Parliament in August 2018 and has inspired millions of students around the world to join her.
Greta Thunberg started the global movement Fridays for Future and have had conversations with prime ministers, presidents and the pope. She has 17 million followers through her social media channels and was appointed the Person of the Year by Time Magazine 2019.
“Summer” is a very well known radio show where a person is given free hands to speak about whatever they want and play whatever music they like.
Producer: Mattias Österlund
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This is an English version of the Swedish Radio show Vinter i P1 with Johan Rockström.
Alla Sommarprat finns att lyssna på i Sveriges Radio Play.
“Vinter i P1” is a well known radio show in Sweden where a person is given the freedom to talk about whatever they want and play whatever music they like.
Johan Rockström is a global environmental scientist and a diligent debater of climate issues. And he has been appointed “The most powerful environmental person” in Sweden twice.
In the program Johan Rockström says there´s a climate emergency:
- Welcome to 2020 –The year of the Moment of Truth… It´s about the future of our children – mine and yours – and their children.“We want to give an international audience the opportunity to hear Johan Rockström´s view on global climate change. He´s a professor of Global Environmental Science and the director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany – one of the most well reputed climate research institutes in the world”, says Bibi Rödöö, program manager of the Vinter series.
Producer: John Swartling.
The music in the program is abridged due to copyright reasons.
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This is an English version of the Swedish Radio show Sommar i P1 with Ingrid Wall. Sommar i P1 is a radio show where a person is given free hands to speak about whatever they want.
Alla Sommarprat finns att lyssna på i Sveriges Radio Play.
Exactly one year ago journalist Kim Wall was murdered on board a submarine when she was on a journalistic assignment. Her murder made headlines all over the World.
Ingrid Wall, Kim Wall’s mother, tells her story in the Swedish Radio programme “Sommar i P1” (Summer in Channel 1), about the day when the Wall family’s life was changed forever.
"We want to give an international audience the opportunity to hear Ingrid Wall's powerful and personal story, so we are publishing an English version of the programme. Ingrid recounts a year with deep despair, but also a year during which the family received a lot of warmth and love", says Bibi Rödöö, programme manager of the Sommar series.
Producer: Anna Landelius
The Music is shortened due to copyright reasons.
