At Swedish Radio P1's program "Nordegren & Epstein" were discussed about this year's program.
Reporter Louise Epstein interviewed SVT's Commissioning Editor Factual Entertainment, Peter Nyrén. She pointed out that there was a lot of Solliden, Estelle, Leonore and green grass. She wonders why there was so little about their work.
Nyrén says that it happened a lot at the royal family's private life.
Epstein asks: "Why the royals don’t get any questions about their work?" "How do you choose what to put to the program?"
Nyrén says that at the end of the year they look what during the year happened is worth to put to the program.
There are also two other people interviewed.
Lars Josefsson from SVT's Uppdrag granskning (Mission investigation) , Espstein asks from him: "You have done many tough investigations, why you have never investigated how well the royal family does their work?"
Josefsson says "We do investigations about inequality and misfortunes. We did something when the book The reluctant monarch was published."
Epstein says: "There are questions which could be made. How much representation we get with the money? Has the work of the royal family become more effective or less effective? How big power the royal court has? When are you going to do something with these questions?"
Josefsson says that he can not promise anything.
The third person interviewed is Kristina Widestedt, a researcher and teacher in journalism at the Stockholm University.
Epstein asks: "Why the royal family gets so few questions about their work?"
Widestedt says: "That is difficult to say but I think that the journalists and the public have still a little oldfashioned way to see what the royal family is. This is a bunch of very special and a little curious people. Those people become interesting themselves without that we need evaluations about their work. It is enough that these people exist and go around and show themselves".
Epstein: "How the media should work when they handle the royal house?"
Widestedt: "I miss overviews, figures how many official dinners are organized, how many people are invited, what sectors in the community they represent. How many visits to companies the royal family does? Who does most work?"
Nyrén says that he thinks that they choose what is worth to show about the events during the year and they have a rather good balance at the program.
Kungen och hans jobb - Nordegren & Epstein i P1 Sveriges Radio