In the latest episode of our Sweden in Focus podcast, host Paul O’Mahony is joined by panelists James Savage, Richard Orange, and Becky Waterton.

In this week’s episode we discuss: 

Eurovision fever

• ‘Almost goddess status’: Sweden’s Loreen tipped to win Eurovision

Rail strike

• Swedish rail strike postponed but Stockholm trains still affected

Jimmie Åkesson

• Sweden’s government has its ‘here’s Jimmie!’ moment
• Sweden Democrats leader says ‘fundamentalist Muslims’ cannot be Swedes

Scandinavian languages

• Why don’t Scandinavians try harder to understand each other?
• How to turn the one Scandinavian language you are learning into three

Democracy

• Is this government really a threat to democracy?

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