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.  For an extensive look at the Photo Collection from Duesseldorf click here.

 

Possible Live Interview with Eldar & Nigar - the Winners of the 2011 Eurovision Song Contest:  Azerbaijan celebrates their 20th Anniversary of Independance. For this occasion the Winners of the 2011 Eurovision Song Contest - Eldar & Nigar from Azerbaijan are in London where festivities are held. Our Eurovision New Man - Luke Fisher was on location and tried to get both of them on the phone during the live broadcast of Radio International for an interview. Unfortunately, there was not enough time for Eldar & Nigar to give a live interview via phone as they were escorted to the stage. However, Luke made an interview and this will be available on Radio International and escXtra.com next week.

 

Interview with Eurovision Winner Marie Myriam (France 1977): OGAE Portugal held their third annual Eurovision Live Concert in Setubal, Portugal on 10 September 2011 and invited a list of great Eurovision performers singing their entry to the Eurovision Song Contest to an international audience in  the auditorium Jose Alfonso in the heart of Setubal. The guest of honour was the Winner of the 1977 Eurovision Song Contest who represented France with the song "L'oiseau et l'enfant" - Marie Myriam. Native Portuguese it was amazing to see the former Winner of the Eurovision Song Contest perform her winning entry from 1977. The Team of Radio International was present and conducted an interview with Marie Myriam backstage. Listen to this interview during this week's edition of Radio International. 

 

Interview with Justine Pelmelay (Netherlands 1989):  OGAE Netherlands had their very first convention in the Dutch City of Rotterdam with the participation of Justine Pelmelay (Netherlands 1989), Nusa Derenda (Slovenia 2001) and Lucia Perez (Spain 2011). The Team of Radio International was present and conduted interviews with all three artists. This week listen to the interview which JP and Luke Fisher did with Justine Pelmelay on her experience at the Eurovision Song Contest  in 1989 and the time afterwards. Justine represented the Netherlands at the 1989 Eurovision Song Contest in Lausanne, Switzerland with the song "Blijf zoals je bent" reaching Number 15.
Due to lack of time during the show and the number of requests received this interview was rescheduled for broadcast to 26 October 2011. Sorry for the inconvenience.

 

Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2011 Spotlight with Michael Goodrich:  13 countries will be taking part at the 2011 Junior Eurovision Song Contest which will this year come from the capital of Armenia - Yerevan on Saturday, 03 December 2011. Our US correspondent Michael follows the National Finals of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest and each week will deliver a summary of what has happened so far. This week in particular he will feature the Belgian National Selection called Junior Eurosong.  

 
Eurovision Song Contest Spotlight - Eurovision's Runners Up with Dermot Manning:  The third part of the series is when our Eurovision correspondents take a chronological look at the songs that came second in the Eurovision Song Contest during the years from 1956 to now whereas 1956 had no known ranking. Dermot joins the team in the studio to continue this week with 1967 to 1971. 

 

Home Composed Song Contest 2011: 02 October 2011 was the last submission day for competing songs in this year's competition. And with this the official voting season for the Home Composed Song Contest 2011has started with an amazing record number of 38 entries have been submitted. Last year's event was won by the United Kingdom which like at the Eurovision Song Contest means that the winning country will virtually host the following year's contest. Andy Brooks is the prime organiser of the event and has launched the website which you can visit here and see the further details, listen again to the songs and cast your vote until the end of October 2011 and may the best home composed song win. :)  The Winner will be announced on the 01 or 02 November 2011. For the history of the Home Composed Song Contest click here.  Each week Radio International will feature some of the competing songs. 

 

Eurovision Song Contest 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. He also takes a look at some statistics such as viewing figures in the various countries and more.

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

 

Welcome escXtra.com: Before we start with this week's Eurovision News Headlines - the Team of Radio International would like to welcome a brandnew Eurovision News Website to the cyberspace - escXtra.com has the latest and greatest Eurovision News up to the minute. Bookmark it and be always in touch with the up-to-date status of the World of the Eurovision Song Contest.

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 e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it 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: Congratulations go to Matthias Breitinger from Berlin, Germany. 

 

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:

22 October 2011

Duesseldorf, Germany

Eurovision Club Germany (EC Germany) Annual Convention 2011

with Glen Vella (Malta 2011), Daria Kinzer (Croatia 2011), Vukasin Brajic (Bosnia & Herzegovina 2010)

 

29 October 2011

Luxembourg, Luxembourg

OGAE Luxembourg's Annual  Charity Gala

(visit the event's website here)

 

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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