Helen Pidd

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3,798 appearances 36 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 2d ago

Helen Pidd’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Today in Focus · The fight to save Sweden’s soul from the far right · 17 Sep 2026 podcast

Tell me about that and how that's working so far. voice-verified

Mm-hmm.

So it sounds like what's been created in the past four years is a very hostile environment for immigrants. voice-verified

But w one of the things that has sort of filtered through, I think, to British media is the idea that since Sweden has become more diverse, that it has developed a problem with crime and particularly gang warfare. voice-verified

And that a country that we all thought of, as you described it, started as being kind of peace loving, you know, IKEA, meatballs, ABBA, all these like lovely things, it's like, oh, actually it's starting to sound like a slightly frightening place. voice-verified

To what extent is that a real problem? voice-verified

And and and were immigrants to blame for that? voice-verified

Yeah, this is all sounding very familiar, I have to say, to the to the sort of arguments that we hear from the hard rights in Britain. voice-verified

Coming up, why the far-right Sweden Democrats have just recorded their worst result in decades? voice-verified

You know, you've spent most of your adult life out of Sweden and I know you were in the US for what, twenty years, is that right? voice-verified

Yeah.

And I wonder when you look at what's happened in your home country over the past four years, do you see any parallels with what you've witnessed? voice-verified

In the two terms of Trump. voice-verified

Yeah. voice-verified

And uh you know, a bit like Trump declaring himself, well, the fertilization president. voice-verified

I I see that the last Prime Minister was also on a a mission, wasn't he, to get more Swedish women to have more babies. voice-verified

Has he had any success in increasing the birth rate? voice-verified

Yeah, from th first first time parents used to get three free rounds, now he's up to to six. voice-verified

I guess there's a pragmatic ac acknowledgement there that if you don't have any immigrants to replace the population, you do need to do something about it. voice-verified

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