Queenan's Crime Scenes - Part Two

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Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.3 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2010

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

American author Joe Queenan visits Sweden, perhaps the most exciting and important centre for crime fiction over the last two decades, most recently offering up Stieg Larsson's international phenomenon, the Millennium trilogy.

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0:00.0	Thank you for downloading from the BBC.
0:03.0	The details of our complete range of podcasts
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0:13.0	Now in the second part of the series,
0:15.0	Queen Anne's crime scenes, journalist Joe Queen Anne travels to Stockholm
0:19.0	to see whether the massive boom in Swedish crime fiction reveals anything
0:23.0	about the nature of real life crime there.
0:26.0	For myself, I can say that I still love Stockholm
0:29.0	and everything that is in it.
0:32.0	But concerning nightlife, I've been more restricted.
0:36.0	You see so much all the violence crime when people drink alcohol.
0:41.0	It's scary to see.
0:43.0	And the place is here on Stewart Plan, where we're going.
0:46.0	It's not the same for me since I became a police officer.
0:49.0	So now I never go out.
0:51.0	But in many other times, it's good.
0:54.0	For myself, I love to see the other side of humanity
0:58.0	to see people then be able to help them.
1:02.0	And see that everything is not so white and perfect.
1:06.0	I like to see the truth.
1:14.0	Any Michael once said that if you want to understand a society,
1:17.0	you should read its crime fiction.
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