Nervous Sweden
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 4 February 2016
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
In this edition: how Russian military activity above and below the surface of the Baltic Sea is causing increasing concern in Sweden; Ethiopia's suffering its worst drought in years - but with a buoyant economy why does it need international aid to help it cope? We find out why Finns appear to have fallen out of love with the migrants and why the migrants no longer seem fond of Finland; Belarus might have a reputation as Europe's last dictatorship but a visit to its capital Minsk reveals a positively gleaming city - a cathedral with standing room only and an opera house thronged with the well-heeled and the expensively turned-out. Mali's best-loved export, music, has struggled to make its voice heard during recent years of instability in the country. But a festival's just been staged in the capital, Bamako. Its aim, to show the world there's more to Mali than disorder and violence
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| 0:00.0 | You're about to hear from our own correspondent. We do two versions of the program, one for the BBC World Service, and this one's a download of the latest edition from BBC Radio 4. |
| 0:11.0 | It's introduced by Kate Adi. |
| 0:14.0 | Hello, they're getting nervous in the Stockholm archipelago. |
| 0:18.0 | Why Sweden's sending the troops back to an island in the Baltic. |
| 0:22.0 | London, London, we want to go London, the Iraqi refugees, not happy they've ended up in Finland. |
| 0:29.2 | Can music really change the world? |
| 0:31.2 | In Bamako they're saying there's more to Mali than terrorism. |
| 0:35.0 | And why on a visit to the last dictatorship in Europe we tried but failed to get our hands on |
| 0:40.9 | the golden duck of Belarus. |
| 0:44.8 | Russian military activity above and below the surface of the Baltic Sea |
| 0:48.6 | is causing increasing concern in Sweden. |
| 0:51.5 | There's speculation the famously neutral country might seek to join |
| 0:55.1 | NATO. The Swedish island of Gotlands in the middle of the Baltic, it was once seen as a |
| 1:00.5 | likely target in the event of an attack by the Soviet Union and thousands |
| 1:04.8 | of troops were deployed there. But when the Cold War ended, the soldiers left. Now though, |
| 1:10.3 | the army's going back to the island and once again it's all about Russia. |
| 1:15.0 | Paul Adams tells us that no one really thinks Vladimir Putin has his sights set on |
| 1:19.3 | Sweden but events in Ukraine and increasingly provocative Russian military manoeuvres closer to home are causing some alarm. |
| 1:28.0 | Imagine for a moment that you're a bartender in Vizby, Gotland's picturesque capital. Snow lies thick on the ground outside |
| 1:36.6 | and the walled medieval city with its grand step-gabled houses, yellow, pink and red, is still and silent as a Christmas card. |
| 1:46.6 | But now the door flies open and two strangers enter, stamping snow from their boots. |
| 1:51.7 | They order coffee, and with a distinct lack of small talk |
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