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 Song Contest 2012 - in vision: This week the team is back from the two weeks spent in Baku at the 57th Eurovision Song Contest. You can see some of the photos here in the four albums and enjoy. Album 1 | Album 2 | Album 3 | Album 4 | Album 5

Interview with Ott Lepland (Estonia 2012):  An amazing success for the entry of Estonia to the Eurovision Song Contest 2012. First Ott Lepland could qualify his country into the Grand Final from Semi Final 2 where he ranked 4th with 100 points and then in the Final - What a performance! - he reached a very remarkable 6th place with a total of 120 points. A very strong power ballade called "Kuula" which means "Listen!". Eric & JP met the singer in the Baku Press Centre for an interview which you can hear during this week's edition of Radio International. Enjoy! :)

 

Interview with Kaliopi (FYRO Macedonia 2012):  Kaliopi represented The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) at the Eurovision Song Contest 2012 with the song "Crno E Belo" (Black and White) which reached Number 13 in the Grand Final. Kaliopi was already selected in the national final to represent FYROM at the Eurovision Song Contest in 1996 with the song "Samo Ti" ("Only You"), however, she never made it to the Eurovision stage back in 1996 due to her not having enough average vote to take part at the Eurovision Song Contest that particular year. An amazing lady and an amazing voice - JP had the pleasure to meet her for a few words describing her happiness that she managed to qualify FYROM to the Grand Final which did not happen for quite some years. Listen to this interview during this week's edition of Radio International. 

 

Interview with Nina Badric (Croatia 2012):  After Daria Kinzer representing Croatia at the Eurovision Song Contest in Duesseldorf in 2011 - one of Croatia's biggest artists represented Croatia at the Eurovision Song Contest 2012 in Baku, Azerbaijan - NINA BADRIC. Unfortunately, she did not manage to qualify Croatia for the Grand Final as with only 42 points in Semi Final 2 she ranked 12th with the song "Nebo". Only the Top Ten of the Semi Finals meet in the Grand Final. However, Lilian, Eric and JP had the big pleasure meeting the singer in the Press Centre in Baku for a very funny interview. A must listen!  Enjoy.

Interview with Charlotte Jensen from eurovisionary.com:  There are many Eurovision News websites hitting the internet, however, one of the nice and very efficient one is eurovisionary.com which is an international Eurovision News Website covering all sorts of Eurovision items in English. It's Headquarters is in Denmark and employs a large group of editors from around Europe and beyond. Charlotte Jensen is the Editor-in-Chief and also the founder of eurovisionary.com. Listen to an interview JP did with Charlotte Jenson about eurovisionary.com.

 

Eurovision Song Contest Spotlight - Eurovision 2012 - The Aftershow Party:  The 57th Eurovision Song Contest was staged Saturday 26 May 2012 in Baku and each of our Eurovision Correspondants will each week be giving us their assessment of how they watched the shows and what they think of it. Of course, it goes without saying, it is spiced with their choice of songs from this year's Eurovision Song Contest. Continuing this new mini-series is Marcus Keppel-Palmer.

 

Interview with Stefan Galea (Malta): One of Malta's young music talents is Stefan Galea who is no stranger to the ears of the listeners to Radio International as his music is aired on the show. Still a student Stefan also aims at an international singing career and hoping to be able that one day he will be representing Malta at the Eurovision Song Contest. At the Malta Eurovision Song Contest 2012 which is the national selection process of Malta to find a suitable song to represent the country at the Eurovision Song Contest JP met Stefan for an interview which you can hear during this week's edition of the show. Stefan is not only an actor in the Maltese TV series called D.R.E.A.M.S. but also a fine singer and his repertoire is growing as he is producing more and more music. Songs such as "Can't wait for FAF, Fittest Girl in History, Take it or leave it and Shotgun Lover" have been aired on Radio International in the past. The website is abailable here. Enjoy the interview on this week's edition of Radio International.  

 

Euro Friends Song Contest 2012 with Andy Simon: The Euro Friends Song Contest in search for the ultimate Eurovision song as voted for by the many fans around the world.  Andy  Simon joins us again next week to reveal the qualifiers for the next round.  The website of the Euro Friends Song Contest you will find here where you can easily vote for your favourite Eurovision song per country and also see The Euro-Friends TV Show as hosted by Andy Simon. You can also join the Facebook Group here.  Andy is back next week and he reveals the final qualifiers in Heat 50 (Germany).  Then the next round starts. Andy will tell us all about it next week during Radio International.

 

Eurovision News Website: escXtra.com:  Luke Fisher is 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. As long as stock last you can also select something out of the Eurovision 2010 Goodies Bag. Good Luck! Congratulations go once again to Rafael Vivas from Venezuela for winning this week's Clip Quiz but coincidentally also the Sweden Quiz - Well Done!!! :) 

 

Malta's Band - The Crowns was featured on this week's edition of Radio International. For further details of the band click 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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