Sveriges Radio (aka SR) is the Swedish national broadcasting company. The Swedish public-broadcasting system is a public service institution in many respects modelled after its British counterpart, the BBC and Sveriges Radio shares many characteristics with it. It was founded 1925 as AB RadiotjƤnst as the state appropriated monopoly for broadcasting in Sweden. In 1955 The second channel P2 was started and the name was changed to Sveriges Radio. In Read more on Last.fm