The Swedish Radio (SR) Pronunciation unit has expert linguists available to help journalists to pronounce over 16,000 words. It also deals with complaints from listeners, ranging from mispronounced capital cities to anger over regional accents. Radio Sweden speaks to SR linguist Lena Cousins.  

Robert Stan used to work as a baker but now makes a living sculpting life size figures of actors, movie characters and monsters. 

If your a fan of bad '80s action movies, you'll like this one. It's called Kung Fury and it takes place in 1980s Miami which is a far cry from the Swedish town of Umeå, where much of it was filmed. The project is the culmination of a massive online crowd-funding campaign from the film's Swedish director-and-star David Sandberg.

This summer marks 100 years since the birth of Swedish film star Ingrid Bergman and there is one place in America that has been swamped with calls from those wanting to mark the centenary celebrations. 

Daniel Harding is one of the world's top conductors and describes the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, which he has run for the past eight years, as "incredibly hard-working and talented". 

It has produced more foreign fighters per capita than anywhere else in the world, but Denmark is still ahead of Sweden when it comes to countering violent extremism on home soil, according to terror expert Magnus Ranstorp. 

Transgender actress Saga Becker made headlines all over the world when she won the best actress award at the Swedish equivalent of the Oscars.

Radio Sweden's Friday Guest is Abdellah Taia, one of Morocco's best-known authors, who's in town for the Stockholm International Poetry Festival. Here he talks about growing up as an effiminate boy in a country where homosexuality is outlawed, how he killed his real self to survive and how his debut film has fulfilled a lifelong ambition.