'I hate to be stereotypical but the light in northern Sweden is amazing'
In this week’s episode of Sweden in Focus Extra, we hear from the Umeå-based Canadian writer. Mandy Pipher about what it's been like moving to Umeå in northern Sweden. Mandy wrote recently in an artic...
10 Des 20253min
Popular Lucia songs, and why does northern Sweden face so much prejudice?
In this week's episode we talk about why northern Sweden doesn’t get the recognition it deserves from southerners, and we prepare for the annual Lucia festivities by getting to know some of the most c...
6 Des 202527min
How good is your Swedish vocabulary? - Quiz 15
Can our panelists pass the vocabulary section of högskoleprovet, the Swedish university entrance exam?Host Paul O’Mahony is joined this week by The Local's Becky Waterton and James Savage.Do you know ...
4 Des 20253min
Why The Local is investigating Sweden's immigrant detention centres
In this week's episode we talk about Sweden’s immigrant deportation centres and why reports of miserable conditions there should concern everyone in Sweden.We also discuss the two-decades old murder i...
29 Nov 202532min
Talent deportation: 'It's a lose-lose game for Sweden and Swedish taxpayers'
In this week’s episode we hear a conversation our Nordic editor Richard Orange had recently with Sasan Kazemian, an Iranian doctor who quit his job and left Sweden for Iran in September after he was r...
26 Nov 20254min
Liberals in crisis: Will Sweden soon have one less party in parliament?
In this week's episode we talk about strategies for coping with the long Swedish winter now that temperatures have taken a serious nosedive.In politics, with several parties teetering on the brink of ...
22 Nov 202522min
Meet the New Zealander who missed pies so much in Sweden he started selling his own
In this week’s episode deputy editor Becky Waterton chats with Tom Simpson, a New Zealander who missed the kind of savoury pies that were commonplace in his homeland so much that he set up his own bak...
19 Nov 20253min
Why is the Sweden Democrats' 'immigration map' not getting more pushback?
In this week's episode we talk about a new map that shows just how successfully we immigrants are managing to take control of Sweden.We also put faces to the names of some of Sweden’s most popular bra...
15 Nov 202523min
