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.  

Interview with SINPLUS (Switzerland 2012): Switzerland decided on Saturday, 10 December 2011 in the Bodensee Arena of Kreuzlingen, Switzerland to send SINPLUS to represent the Swiss Nation at the Eurovision Song Contest 2012 with the song "Unbreakable". Sinplus are the brothers Ivan and Gabriel Broggini from the Italian part of Switzerland called Ticino. Radio International stormed the stage after the show was over to get some words out of the succesfull winners. The entire results are displayed here courtesy of escxtra.com.

Interview with Chiara Dubey - Number Three in the Swiss National Final: Chiara Dubey also from the Italian part of Switzerland - Ticino made it to the Top 3 of the national selection show called "Die Grosse Entscheidungsshow" with the song "Amina Nuova". Listen to the interview with the fine singer. 

Interview with Sven Epiney - Presenter of the Swiss National Final 2012: This was the second time after last year  that Sven Epiney hosted the Swiss National Final very sovereign and very professional. He is the "Terry Wogan" of Switzerland and also is the commentator of the Eurovision Song Contest for Swiss Television. During "Die Grosse Entscheidungsshow" two video clips were broadcast of Sven visiting Baku, Azerbaijan which is the Host City of the Eurovision Song Contest 2012. Radio International had the big pleasure to speak to Sven on stage right after the show had finished about his opinion on the songs, the show and Baku.

Previous Eurovision Interviews:  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. The 2010 & 2011 Eurovision Interviews are not 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.   

Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2011 Quiz: This years theme of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest was REACH TO THE TOP. What does the logo symbolize? Email the show with the answer by clicking on CONTACT  to win a little prize as long as stocks last.  

 

Interview with the Number Nine of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2011 - Erik Rapp from Sweden: On Saturday 03 December 2011 the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2011 was staged in the Armenian Capital Yerevan with the participation of 13 countries competing for the trophy and the title. The Winners once again was Georgia and it is their second victory after 2008 with Candy and "Candy Music". Check out the official Scoreboard here and the official website here. Sweden was respresented by 15 year old Erik Rapp performing the song called "Faller" (Falling) reaching Number 9 in the Final of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2011. In the photo you see Erik and his composer of "Faller". 

 

Interview with the Number 5 of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2011 - Dalita from Armenia:  The Host Country Armenia was represented by Dalita and the song "Welcome to Armenia" which came 5th in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2011 and reminded many viewers of the UK's entry of the 2007 Eurovision Song Contest - Scooch :)  At this point Radio International would like to thank Tolik  Chernyaev for the great translation service during the interview with Dalita. 

 

Interview with the Number Seven of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2011 - Femke from Belgium: The closing song of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2011 came from Belgium with charming Femke. Her song is called "Enn Kusje meer" (One more kiss) and came 7th in the Final. Radio International had the pleasure of an interview with the little star from Belgium.

 

Interview with the Number Six of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2011 - Lerika from Moldova: This year's Moldavian entry to the Junior Eurovision Song Contest was Lerika who came 6th with the song "No, No". Enjoy this interview. 

 

Eurovision Song Contest Spotlight - Eurovision's Runner Up with Chris Poppe:  The series almost comes to an end with our Eurovision specialists to 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. Chris returns this week to join the team in the studio to reflect the years 2004 - 2007.

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. 

 

Eurovision News Website: escXtra.com:  Luke Fisher is also the  Editor - in - Chief of the newly created Eurovision News website called escXtra.com. Check our more and EXTRA news on the Eurovision Song Contest by visiting the website here. 

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 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 Javier Leal from Venezuela. 

 

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:

31 December 2011 (broadcast of the show)
Europe Start Voting Now for the
The Top 250 Eurovision Songs of all time
as arranged by 12points.tv.

Details of how you can vote please find here.

 

05 February 2012

Munich, Germany

OGAE Germany Convention

with Ami Aspelund, Nadine Beiler, Jacques Zegers, Alexandros Panayi

 

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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