The Euro Trip | Eurovision Podcast

As Eurovision 2024 pre-party season gets started, we find out more about what happened in Madrid as the class of 2024 get together for the first time this season. We get all the gossip from the host of the official Eurovision Song Contest podcast, Steve Holden, while Malta's Sarah Bonnici also tells us about her experience of performing her entry in front of fans for the first time. We also meet a 'disgusting' guest in this year's host city, and, do you have a pet named after a Eurovision personality?

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This week we chat to Silia Kapsis, who, at the age of just 17, will represent Cyprus at Eurovision this year. We also have another chat with Rick Jakobs on our March to Malmo series who gives us an update on the Euro Fan Cafe. Plus, imagine avoiding all the Eurovision songs for the first three months of the year? That's what listener Kyle did - he gives us his thoughts on the class of 2024.

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This week we're discussing revamps and whether altering your original song can improve your chances at the contest. Firstly ahead of her revamp release, we're joined again by Czech entry Aiko as she discusses the alterations to her song, while later we head to Sweden for a catch up with Eurovision winning songwriter Linnea Deb. This year she has two songs competing, her home country of Sweden, and a writing credit on Malta's revamped version of "Loop".

But to kick off we have a very big announcement!

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One of the biggest stories of the week is the EBU's announcement of three big rule changes for this year's Eurovision Song Contest. We're joined by ESC Insight's Ben Robertson to discuss what impact the changes will have on the contest. Also, with national final season drawing to an end, it marks the start of our March to Malmo, so we'll be crossing to this year's host city to get to know what to expect. Plus, Moldova's entrant Natalia Barbu stops by for a chat.

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It only feels like two minutes since Melfest returned 6 weeks ago, but in the blink of an eye it's all over. We're back for one final episode of Melfest Monday to debrief everything from Saturday night's final. Aftonbladet's Tobbe Ek and Melfest commentators Bella Qvist and Tina Mehrafzoon join us to review the winners, and look ahead to Eurovision in Malmo.

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With selection season coming to an end, we speak to two successful Eurovision songwriters on how to write the perfect entry. Austrian 2023 entrant Teya joins us to share her love for Nemo's song for Malmö and her hopes that Switzerland could win the compeition, while Cazzi Opeia discusses writing for Melodifestivalen and a Eurovision winner for Loreen.

The boys also have a couple of big announcements themselves...

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The Melfest final is just a matter of days away but it was the Finalkvalet - the new final qualifying round - that got everybody talking on Saturday. We'll be talking about it in dept with Mellopedia's Gustav Dahlander and Aftonbladet's Jenny Agren. We do find just enough time to preview the final too, with guest appearances from Maria Sur and Smash into Pieces.

You can read all of Gustav's statistics on Mellopedia.

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UK Eurovision release day requires a very special bonus episode, and we're delighted to bring you all the reaction as 'Dizzy' premieres to the public.

The boys share their thoughts, read your messages, and get a review from leading music journalist Nick Levine. Then we wrap up a busy day with Olly Alexander's Mum as she shares her thoughts on her son's participation in Eurovision, and gives us an insight into his love for the contest.

Listen to 'How the BBC chose Olly Alexander for Eurovision 2023'

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Friend of the podcast Dan Shipton was the Lead Creative Director at Eurovision 2023 and has also staged some of the most iconic performances of recent years. On today's episode, Dan exclusively reveals which performances he's working on this year and tells us what the process is like. We'll also be joined by Besa who is representing Albania this year. Plus, we put your Eurovision knowledge to the test.

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Four heats are in the bag, but we still have a brand new fifth heat to come... as well as the final and the new-look final qualifying round. We'll be joined by Aftonbladet's Natalie Demirian and QX's Ronny Larsson to get us right up to speed. Plus we're joined by artists Jay Smith, Chelsea Muco and Medina who tell us what to expect from their performances on Saturdya.

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After being the first artist to be announced for Eurovision 2024, Mustii's song for Belgium has been revealed this week to high praise from fans. We're joined by Sven Garreyn from Songfestival.be who helps us analyse the song. Denmark's Eurovision commentator Ole Topholm also stops by to ronud up everything from DMGP at the weekend. Plus, Hera Bjork from Iceland tells us why she's trying to represent her country again after 14 years.

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We're at the halfway point of Melfest 2024 but we still have plenty to come over the next few weeks. On this episode, we're joined by a dream team of expert panellists in Melfest presenter Tina Mehrafzoon, Melfest commentator Bella Qvist and Aftonbladet's Tobbe Ek to dissect everything that happened on Saturday. They'll cast on aye over what to expect in heat four plus we'll hear from Dotter too.

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This week we're given a rare interview with Germany's Head of Delegation to hear more about their plan to return to the left-hand side of the scoreboard. 

Alexandra Wolfslast tells us about the personal impact her country's poor form has had on her professionally, how she plans to bring success back to her nation, and we find out more about how reparations for their selection show taking place this Friday.

We also head to Italy to react to Sanremo, and there's a special congratulations for two Euro Trip podcast listeners.

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Melfest season is in full swing now that we've seen two shows on TV already. Aftonbladet journalists Jenny Agren and Stina Dahlgren join us this week to analyse heat 2 and look ahead to heat 3. No debutants have yet made it to the final so we discuss what a newbie needs to do to bag a spot in the final. Plus we hear from Cazzi Opiea, Clara Klingenstrom and Kim Cesarion ahead of their participation this coming weekend.

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With Finland gearing up for UMK this weekend, we meet the founder to discuss the evolution of the competition. He tells us more about how the show differs from others across Europe, and how he goes about selecting the acts to compete to represent Finland at Eurovision itself.

We also meet one of the main contenders to win, rockband Cyan Kicks, while we also reflect on a busy weekend and dicuss Norway's Melodi Grand Prix Final.

And there's still time for a special trip to remember some of the best examples of Eurovision songs in the wild!

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The news is out! Petra Mede will host Eurovision 2024! To mark the news, we delve into our archives to bring you an incredibly rare English language interview we had with Petra back in the summer of 2021 from our first series of The Contest & Me. Petra tells us all about her love of the Eurovision Song Contest and even tells us back then that she would love to host Eurovision again.

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We've seen the first heat of Melfest 2024 and two artists have bagged a spot in the final. There's plenty to discuss from the show and ESC Insight's Ben Robertson and SVT's in-house Melfest expert Gustav Dahlander are on hand to delve into the data. They help us look ahead to the second heat too, plus we're joined by three artists taking to the stage in Gothenberg: Dear Sara, Engmans Kapell and LIAMOO.

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On the eve of the 2024 competition, we were delighted to chat with Melfest Show Producer Karin Gunnarsson as she tells us more about how she prepares for Sweden's biggest television show. We learn more about how she picks the songs, and she tells us more about how she managed to presuade Loreen to participate in the contest last year.

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The Semi-Final Allocation Draw took place in Malmo earlier in the week, so Ben Robertson from ESC Insight talks us through the benefits and pitfalls of being drawn in each of the shows. Plus, we look back at Luxembourg's national final with help from Daniel Rosney. And we look ahead to Vidbir in Ukraine and chat to YAKTAK, one of the artists competing in the show.

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Melodifestivalen is back on our screens this weekend so we're back with Melfest Monday to get you up to speed on the competition. We're joined by Aftonbladet's Tobbe Ek, Melfest commentator Bella Qvist and SVT's Förfest presenter Tina Mehrafzoon who help us get to know some of the artists and what we should expect from this year's show. Plus Adam from SMash into Pieces stops by to tell us why the band are back in Mello after their 3rd place result last year.

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We meet Czechia's Eurovision entry in the first of many upcoming conversations with the class of 2024. Aiko joins us in the studio to discuss her favourite breakfast cereal, her ideal pizza topping, and the emotions of winning ESCZ back in December.

Before that we meet the Finnish singer who has gone on record saying he will boycott the contest should he win his country's national selection, provided Israel remain in the competition. Plus the boys have big news ahead of Melodifestivalen!

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National selection season has properly kicked off and with Luxembourg and Ireland ready to host their shows at the end of month, we go behind the scenes of them both. Firstly, Jan Bors, formerly Czechia's Head of Delegation, tells us everything about Luxembourg after he was on the selection committee which shortlisted the competing songs. Then we hop over to Ireland for a very candid conversation Michael Kealy, Ireland's Head of Delegation.

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We mark the beginning of another year in which Sweden host the Eurovision Song Contest by remembering some of our favourite stories told by iconic Swedes here on the podcast. Delving into our archives we hear from the likes of Bella Qvist, Carolina Noren, Petre Mede, Anderz Wrethov, Tobbe Ek and Christer Bjorkman as they share tales of favourite moments, split screen drama, and famous victories.

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Olly Alexander is representing the UK at Eurovision 2024 - but how was he chosen? The BBC's Executive Producer of Eurovision Lee Smithurst, and the Commissioning Executive for Music Will Wilkin sit down with us to tell us exclusively what the process was like to select him.

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We've assembled for a special bonus episode after the news some big Norwegian Eurovision alumni were returning to try and represent the nation again in 2024. We discuss the songs competing in Melodi Grand Prix, plus, we hear from Head of Delegation Stig Karlsen and returning MGP royalty Keiino.

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In this festive special, Martin Green CBE, the Managing Director of Eurovision 2023, sits down for a feature length conversation about this year's contest. He discusses his early days in the role, deadlines, back stage drama, and how the team came together to organise arguably the best Eurovision of recent years.

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In this special episode we react to the news that Olly Alexander will be representing the United Kingdom in Sweden next year. The boys react to the news and get brilliant insight analysis from host of the BBC's Eurovisioncast Daniel Rosney, while Nick Levine helps us predict the sort of entry we might expect.

There's also the chance to hear from Olly himself, a special thanks to BBC Radio 1 and Pete Allison for giving us a chance to hear his full interview.

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In the final Rewind of the series we're heading back to Baku and Loreen's first Eurovision victory. We complete the circle on her Eurovision story as we explore the controversial contest, with stories both on and off stage as the contest headed to the coast of the Caspian Sea. We also find out more about the Netherland's Eurovision entrant for 2024, and Rob gets revenge with this week's One Second Song.

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This week we rewind back to 1982 to give you the inside story on what happened when Eurovision headed to Harrogate! We speak to the presenter of the show Jan Leeming to find out what it was like to host, plus we hear from the Technical Manager Tony Gill on how they managed to pull this off. Aside from that, there's plenty of chat about the 2024 participation list, a stacked lineup in Sanremo and the first national final of the season.

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Mello season is almost upon us and Tobbe & Stina from Aftonbladet join us to discuss who could be representing Sweden on home soil next year.

They correctly predicted 29 of the 30 artists competing in the competition, so who do they think has enough to win?

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It's Friday, so it's time to bring you a bonus episode of the podcast as we delve into our own archive to give you another chance to hear an edition of Rewind from series one. This time, it's the first one we ever did: Eurovision 1998.

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After taking a break last week, we're back with another brand new edition of Rewind as we head to Rome and arguably the most chaotic contest in the history of Eurovision. We're joined by special guests who give us a unique insight into what really happened behind the scenes, and reminisce over a memorable sax solo.

The boys also discuss rumours that Olly Alexander could be representing the UK at Eurovision, and we round-up what happened at Junior Eurovision 2023.

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Turns out we can't get enough of the early 2000s here on Rewind! We kicked off series two with trips to Tallinn and Riga, well here's what happened when we remembered the contest in Istanbul and a historic victory for one of Eurovision's newest nations.

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Eurovision 2023's favourite Austrian duo return to the podcast to kick start Christmas, Teya and Salena tell us more about their new single "Ho Ho Ho" and how it could mark the end of their performing careers together. We also have a scoop on how ESCZ 2024 could look from Czechia's Head of Delegation, and we go behind the scenes with the BBC team warming up for this weekend's Junior Eurovision Song Contest.

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It's time bring you another episode from series one of Rewind from 2022. After looking back at 1993, 1980 and 2016, this time we're heading to Rotterdam and the cancelled contest of 2020, before reliving events the following year.

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We hit the rewind button to go all the way back to 1969 and the dramatic year year four countries took victory! We welcome back Croatia's 2022 singer Mia Dimsic for a catch up and we give her a big surprise!

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It's time bring you another episode from series one of Rewind from 2022. After looking back at 1993 and 1980, now we're heading to Stockholm for Eurovision 2016.

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We're back with another edition of Rewind as we turn the clock back once again to bring you the best stories from the contest in Riga. We hear all the drama and stories from events 20 years ago, including how Jemini almost weren't the UK's entry - how different the UK's history in Eurovision could have been!

There's also a welcome return to the podcast for Dale from Aussievision as he discusses Australia's chances of competing in Malmo.

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As promised on Wednesday's episode, for the next few Fridays we'll be heading into the archives to bring you a classic edition of are 'Rewind' series.

In this episode, which first aired in November 2022, we go behind the scenes of Eurovision 1980.

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We're back with series two of Rewind, where we delve into the archives to tell the story of a Eurovision Song Contest of the past! We kickstart with 2002 with tales of funding problems, managers at war and crap wedding bands... oh, and the Bird Eurovision Song Contest. Plus we look ahead to Malmo 2024 with The Local Sweden's Emma Lofgren, and the One Second Song returns!

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There's no new episode this week, but to get you in the mood for next week's new series of Rewind we delve into the archives to bring you a classic edition as they go behind the scenes of Eurovision 1993.

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In one of their first interviews since being announced as the UK's act for Junior Eurovision 2023, we're joined by Hayla, Maisie and Yasmin from STAND UNIQU3. Head of Delegation Lee Smithurst also stops by to tell us how he came to choosing the girls and what their staging will look like in Nice.

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Stig Karlsen is Norway's Head of Delegation, Executive Producer of Melodi Grand Prix and the Musical Director too. As a result, he has a story or two to tell. He tells us how his love of Eurovision began by building stages out of Lego in his bedroom as a child, and how it would be a dream to bring the contest back to Norway. Stig also tells us what he meant about *that* curious Instagram post.

Ben Robertson's Big Five analysis: https://escinsight.com/2023/09/28/why-now-is-the-right-time-to-remove-the-big-five-rules/

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Since commentating on the contest for the first time in 1999 (when her country won the contest!) Swedish Radio's Eurovision Queen has been a mainstay in commentary boxes across the continent. She shares stories from her time working at the event, including a technical disaster in Dusseldorf, her iconic favourite entry, and how her life came full circle after crowding round the family radio in the mid 1970s to make sure she didn't miss the action.

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This week we bring you a chat with Linnea Deb who has won Melfest twice, and lifted the Eurovision crown after writing Måns Zelmerlöw's hit Heroes. She tells us what inspired her to get into songwriting, what her thoughts are on seeing the same people at Melfest year after year and what she would change about the Eurovision Song Contest.

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We hear from the Swedish songwriter and producer behind several iconic Eurovision entries as he recounts the moments that made him fall in love with the contest. Anderz discusses what it's like to sit in the green room on the cusp on winning, something he has done twice with "Fuego" and "Too Late for Love" as well as his past history with Melodifestivalen, and the songs that inspired him at the start of his career.

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Samya is a fairly recent convert to the world of the Eurovision Song Contest, but it hasn't stopped her from having some of the best jobs possible! Whether it's interviewing 2022 winners Kalush Orchestra, playing table tennis with Maneskin, or taking us behind the scenes of being a juror at the contest, Samya has an amazing story or two to tell.

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The host of Eurovisioncast reflects on last year's contest and how he ended up fronting the BBC's coverage in 2023. Daniel takes us behind the scenes as he shares his crazy schedule in Liverpool, including sharing a bed with a Eurovision winner. He tells us how he confused Keiino at the contest in Tel Aviv, and why one particular Spanish entry with always be his favourite Eurovision song of all-time.

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The Contest & Me continues as you get to hear all about Rob's love of Eurovision. From his very first memory, his most memorable moment, and his ideas on how to shake up the Contest, you'll get to know even more about one half of the presenters of the world's favourite Eurovision podcast.

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We kick off our third series of the Contest & Me as we explore our love of the Eurovision Song Contest through a set of challenging questions. All aimed to help us discover why a person loves Eurovision, this year we're starting with something special as we get to know the hosts of The Euro Trip a little bit better. On this first episode we hear James reveal a surprising drink that helped him enjoy Eurovision in Lisbon, the unexpected rule change he'd like to make, and why French Eurovision entries hit different for him.

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