Radio International Team |
About the Presenters JP's, (Jürgen-Peter Börnig) dream of having his own English speaking radio show in the Netherlands came true in November 1998. He had former experience as a DJ and radio show presenter in his spare time while employed with the American Forces Network (AFN SHAPE) in Belgium. He adopted his initials JP as his disc jockey title at this time. He plays Squash, Badminton, loves Beach Volleyball, and swims to keep fit. He is also an avid Eurovision Song Contest fan. As an easy-going person with a great sense of humour, he is good fun and enjoys life to the full. Remote Members - Our Eurovision Song Contest Correspondents and Experts.
Nathan Waddell lives in York, England and is a founding member of Eurovision news website escXtra.com and has contributed coverage of Melodifestivalen, amongst other news items, since its inception in 2011. His interest in the Eurovision Song Contest began when he stumbled across the show back in 2002. Since watching Jessica Garlick take the UK back up to the higher reaches of the table, the interest grew and grew. Coupled with studying French and Spanish at Aston University and an outside interest in European History and Politics, a love for Eurovision has blossomed from year to year. Nathan also founded Eurovision lyrics website 4lyrics.eu and will be studying abroad in 2014/15. He keeps us up to date with the latest Eurovision news on Radio International.
Dermot Manning is from Dublin, Ireland, the most
successful country in the history of the Eurovision Song Contest. He
studied law
in University and now practises as a Barrister. Dermot has watched the
Eurovision Song Contest every year since 1975. He went to the contest
for the
first time in Millstreet in 1993, and has been to 16 contests since. He
broadcasts for Irish Independent Radio at Eurovision. His most memorable
moments
at Eurovision were being in the audience in the Point Theatre in 1994
for
Riverdance, and meeting and hearing Severine sing "Un Banc, Un Arbre,
Une
Rue" in Athens in 2006, which is his all-time favourite Eurovision song.
Dermot's other great passion is travelling
Alasdair Rendall lives in London, although studied in Edinburgh and grew up in the small town of Bedford. He was always fascinated by songs in foreign languages and became addicted to the Eurovision Song Contest from an early age, watching every year since 1989. After graduating in Modern Languages and European Union Studies he qualified as a broadcast journalist, and now works in political journalism. The Eurovision Song Contest is without doubt the highlight of his year, and thinks the social aspect of Eurovision, meeting fans from all over the world, is just as important as the musical side of the contest.
David Mann born and raised in London, (I'm the same age as the number of Eurovision Contests), I moved out to East Anglia with my job around thirty years ago, and I now live in Wymondham, (pronounced Wind-um) a traditional small English market town about 12km from the historic city of Norwich.
Michael Goodrich, our youngest member of the team, lives in the USA but do not let the location fool you. He is an avid fan of the Eurovision Song Contest and likes the contest for the fact that the music is different then in the US. He helps Radio International and the Hit Hunter by making jingles, show openers, medleys and much more. He loves to travel to different places and hopes that one day he will be able to travel Europe. In his spare time he likes play soccer, tennis, and golf. One of his biggest goals in life is to enter the Eurovision Song Contest as a singer and/or composer and since he can now enter the contest with breaking the age rule, he is already planning to go for this.
Eric Lehmann, native Luxembourger supplies Radio International with great interviews of Eurovision Performers and works closely with JP during the busy period of the Eurovision Song Contest and the National Selection in various European countries. Soon more to be published about Eric here. Stay tuned ! :)
Helena Reuterwall joined our remote as substitute for Malcolm and Judy when interviewing Eurovision hopefuls on location. she was born and raised in Stockholm, Sweden where she still lives. She works in the research department at a Bio-pharmaceutical company. Helena keeps fit and spends as much time in the gym as possible. Not only does she work for Radio International at Eurovision locations, but is also a big fan of the E.S.Contest itself with a vast knowledge of the biggest music extravaganza there is.
Luke Fisher lives in Kent, United Kingdom and his first Eurovision memory was seeing Gina G in the Eurovision Song Contest 1996 when he was aged just seven. A graduate in Modern Language Studies (German, Serbian/Croatian, and Spanish) from the University of Nottingham, he attributes his interest in languages from watching the Song Contest as a child. As a co-runner of escdaily.com who has been attending since he was 17, Luke keeps us up to date with the latest Eurovision news every week on Radio International. In April 2014 Luke started to work for the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) for the Junior Eurovision Song Contest, Young Musicians and Young Dancers. He runs the websites for these events. The Team of Radio International would like to express a huge THANK YOU to Luke for his many years of delivering the Eurovision News to the listeners week by week. We wish you all the best of luck in the new endeavours with the EBU.
Wynn M. de Graaf just happened to be around on
the very
first broadcast of the radio show which aired for one hour from 2000 -
2100hrs. Wynn was born in South East England but was reared and educated
in South West Scotland. She is enthusiastic about indoor and outdoor
bowls and took part in the 1996 Women's World Bowls Championships in
Leamington Spa, England representing Holland. |