Please note that many interviews we air are also available as video interview which can be viewed on our Radio International YouTube Channel. Just take a look and enjoy also see the artists talk to us. 

Eurovision Interview with Richard Edwards (Malta Preselection 2011): Last we Radio International had the pleasure of having Glen Vella live on the show. Glen is the winner of the Maltese National Selection and with the will represent Malta at the 2011 Eurovision Song Contest come May in Semi Final 1. This week however, Radio International will broadcast an interview with the runner-up of the Maltese National Selection - Richard Edwards. JP had the pleasure to interview the singer during the rehearsals who song "Finally" was the last song in the Semi Final and managed to sore right up to Number 2 in the Final. It was a Head-to-Head race between Richard and Glen until the last remaining vote of Riccardo Cocciante decided as Head of Jury in favour of Glen Vella for Duesseldorf. 

 

Interview with Claas Triebel, co-author of "Ein bisschen Wahnsinn":  OGAE Germany had their annual convention last January and also invited two of the three authors of the book "Ein bisschen Wahnsinn". This book is a rather special one as it features many statistics and rarities  observed at the Eurovision Song Contest such as "the longest and the shortest songs", "male and female performers", "close to victory", "white suits", "barefeet performances", "famous nill point", "most patient countries to victory", "languages used", "glowes", etc This week Radio International has the pleasure to welcome Claas Triebel to the show to find out more about this book and what made them write it. The book is published by Kunstmann in Germany. More information will be available during the interview.  

 

Euro Friend Song Contest 2011 - Start Voting for the Fourth Quarterfinal:  Radio International in collaboration with the Euro Friends Song Contest are in search for the ultimate Eurovision song. The Voting Windows is open from now until next Sunday evening. You too can be member of an international Jury. All you have to do is to contact Andy on the Face Book Page of the Euro Friends Song Contest. He will get back to you to inform what you have to do in order to vote. Next week Radio International and Andy from the Euro Friends Song Contest will reveal the ten qualifiers of the Fourth Quarterfinal during the show. 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 of this Facebook group in order to join the voting or consult the brand new website.

 

Eurovision Song Contest Spotlight: National Finals: The national selection season well underway and on a weekly basis Radio International will assess the songs with a panel of Eurovision experts. This week Radio International continues to take a look at the songs for the 2011 Eurovision Song Contest from Bosnia & Herzegovina, Georgia, Germany, Italy and Spain. They decided on the weekend and Bulgaria is deciding during this week's edition of the show and Radio International tries to be on the ball to bring you the song as soon as it has been announced.  Of course, there were many national Semi Finals, Second Chance rounds and Heats we take a look at.  For that Alasdair Rendall joins the team in the studio.

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 As long as stock last you can also select something out of the Eurovision 2010 Goodies Bag. Good Luck! And the Winner of the last Quiz: Neil Fenton from the UK. Sorry for the delay. 

 

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: 

09 April 2011 - Amsterdam, Netherlands:  Eurovision in Concert 2011

16 April 2011 - Manchester, United Kingdom:  Plenty of Bucks Fizz at Revolution's Eurovision Boom Bang a Bang Night 

 

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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