Chasing bike thieves: volunteers tackling crime in Oulu
It was a pleasure to spend two evenings with Ilkka and the team gathering material for this story.
Bike’s Patrullen have responded to a problem that the Police has no time or resources to deal with.
I hope politicians and city managers take notice.
Hats off to Ilkka and his team.
What to do with nuclear waste? Here’s a Finnish solution
I’ve visited the Onkalo site where spent fuel from Finland’s five nuclear power stations will be buried for 100,000 years.
Listen to my radio piece about Onkalo in the BBC’s most popular podcast, Global News, with 1M listeners a week. Click on the link and start listening from 19:20.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0g188np
My preview of the Finnish parliamentary elections in April 2023
Juha Mieto
I made a film about Juha for a world audience – so no references to mämmi here.
https://x.com/bbcworldservice/status/1208372427845181441?s=20
Reindeer, Northern Lights, snow and ice – and a quirky hobby
My Christmas story about radio enthusiast Mika who listens to radio stations at the other end of the world using long wire antennas he’d set up in the wilderness in northernmost Lapland was a big hit with global audiences in late December 2022 on BBC World Service’s social media channels.
August 2022
My most-watched story in 2022 is about street signs…
July 2022
Jaakko Torvinen has designed the most amazing space in Helsinki – take a look.
April 2022
What’s the effect of the war in Ukraine on Finnish schoolchildren’s mental health?
August 2019
My most-watched piece of journalism ever: 10M views for a self-sufficient family in northern Lapland who fight climate change in their own way
How did they reduce CO2 emissions by 80% by 2019 – more than 10 years before the EU target?
March 2019
Where the fight against climate change is led by children
January 2018
When Finland’s climate champions visit Chile
June 2019
How climate change threatens traditional Sami livelihoods
April 2020
How to save snow for the next winter
My first covid19 lockdown film, made in my bedroom in London
February 2020
How a free gym pass for over 65s pays for itself
February 2019
Two people on Finland’s two-year basic income experiment reveal if free money has changed their lives
February 2018
This is a mesmerising watch