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Eurovision Interview with Kit Rolfe alias Belle & the Devotions: (United Kingdom 1984 - Part 1):  Over a week ago the OGAE UK had their annual EUROBASH in Manchester with a very special guest that represented the United Kingdom at the 1984 Eurovision Song Contest: Belle & the Devotions. The band was fronted by Kit Rolfe who Radio International had a huge pleasure to meet and interview during the Eurobash recently. "Love Games" reached a remarkable 7th place at the 1984 Eurovision Song Contest from Luxembourgh. Listen  Part 1of the interview during this week's edition of Radio International. Part 2 will be broadcast during Radio International on 03 November 2010.

 

Christa Karu live on Radio International this week: In August 2009 a Eurovision Project came into being in Germany called "One World, One Dream" consisting of six young singers from five countries of Europe. Radio International was present at this Eurovision Workshop and has the big pleasure to welcome at long last one of the members of this project to the studios - Christa Karu who is the Estonian part of this Eurovision project.  Christa's songs have been heard various times already on Radio International. Christa also participated at the Home Composed Song Contest 2009 reaching Number 7 with "Stay" and also she is competing in the 2010 edition of the Home Composed Song Contest. Christa is live in the studio with the rest of the Team. Should you wish to find out more about Christa go and visit her website.

 

Euro Friend Song Contest 2010 - HEAT 8 - The Qualifiers:  Radio International in collaboration with the Euro Friends Song Contest announce during the show this week the ten qualifiers of HEAT 4 of what the international juries have been voting for on the Facebook page. On the Face Book Page of the Euro Friends Song Contest, one could vote for your ten favourite songs in the Eurovision Song Contest  amongst the eighth hundred songs of Europe's biggest music competition.  Two weeks ago Radio International revealed the ten qualifiers of HEAT 7 and now HEAT 8 is closed and the results will be announced during the show by Andy Simon, who is one of the prime organiser of Euro Friends Song Contest 2011.  Heat 9 will start very soon and you can join to vote for your favourite Eurovision songs by clicking on this link which takes you to the Face Book Page of the Event. Remember, you have to be a member in order to join the voting.   

 

Eurovision Song Contest Spotlight: Germany. In view of the 2011 Eurovision Song Contest from Germany, Radio International's four regular Eurovision Experts will be joining us in turn week by week to review all the German entries of the Eurovision Song Contest from 1956 to 2010. This week Dermot Manning takes a look at the years 1970 to 1974. 

 

Eurovision Song Contest News:  Eurovision News. Luke Fisher joins the team in the studio every week to bring you the news and the latest developments connected to the Eurovision Song Contest. Whether it is music releases of Eurovision performers, special concerts, gossip, etc Luke will have it all for us during the weekly edition of Radio International. Also check out the occasation appearance of Zoran Kovacic from Serbia on Radio International bringing us some Eurovision News in his style.

In addition, Eurovision News is available on www.eurovision.tv, oikotimes.com, esctime.com, escdaily.com, esctoday.com and escflashmalta.com. 

Eurovision Quiz:  Scratch your heads and bite your nails at  our weekly Eurovision Song Contest Quiz. Good luck and win a copy of a past Eurovision Song Contest Final on DVD. All you have to do is to identify the five clips with Artist, Song, Country and Year. Send your answers via the website's CONTACTs form or via the msn-chat This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it   As long as stock last you can also select something out of the Eurovision 2010 Goodies Bag. Good Luck! And the Winner of last week's Quiz: Bert Ouwerkerk (Quizking :) ) in Utrecht,  in the Netherlands. Congratulations yet again!

 

Duesseldorf Quiz with Jutta.  To the run up of the 2011 Eurovision Song Contest staged in Germany's city of Duesseldorf and Radio International's own Jutta is originally from Duesseldorf we though to give you some homework in form of a weekly quiz on the next Eurovision Host City. Send your answers to CONTACT on our website not later than midnight the Tuesday following the live broadcast of Radio International. Here are the three questions of the Duesseldorf Quiz 1:

City:
How many districts does Duesseldorf have and in which one is the Esprit Arena located where the 2011 Eurovision Song Contest will be held next May 10, 12 & 14?

Sport:
What is the name of the local soccer team and what is their contribution to the Eurovision Song Contest 2011?

Food:
Next to Altbier, Coffee and tea what is the typical drink of the city of Duesseldorf?

 

Home Composed Song Contest 2010: Austria is hosting the 2010 Home Composed Song Contest via the following website. 22 songs from 9 countries are competing for the winning trophy. Until midnight of 31 October 2010 you can vote for your favourite songs. You can listen to the songs again via the above website to make up your mind for whom to vote. Radio International hopes that during the next edition of the show the results will be revealed.

 

Eurovision Song Contest Calendar of Events: Check out a detailed listing of all events scheduled around Europe. If you hear of something we have not listed please drop us a line by clicking here and let us know. After Eurovision is before Eurovision and to bridge the Eurovision Gap many Eurovision Clubs will be holding their annual convention.

 

Upcoming Events: 

30 Oct 2010 -  OGAE Luxembourg Gala 

06 Nov 2010 - Eurovision Club (EC) Germany's Annual Convention

Eurovision Song Contest Interviews the Radio International Team has done with the Eurovision performers can be heard by visiting our Eurovision section of this website or check out the Radio International goes.... part of the website. The 2010 Eurovision Interviews have not yet been displayed there. You can find them as part of the weekly editions of Radio International. You can go through the Show Archive to find interviews by using search. 

 

Eurovision Music requests as well as other music requests are most welcome and can be done via our website's CONTACT US page. Let us know what you want to hear and where you are from. Due to the large number of requests we received and cannot accommodate this week these requests will be added to the play list for the future shows. 

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