| Show 11 July 2012 |
Experience the Eurovision Song Contest with Radio International and Partners.
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 Mandinga (Romania 2012): What a nice delegation Romania took to the Eurovision Song Contest 2012. Celebrating it's 10th Anniversary Mandinga represented Romania with the song "Zalelah" in Baku successfully qualifying heir home country to the Grand Final and reaching a remarkable Number 12 position. "Zalelah"
is a dance Mandinga invites the audience to dance to. Although
representing Romania Mandinga also has members in the group from Cuba.
Lilian and JP had the great pleasure to meet Mandinga for a second time
for an interview this time in Baku's Press Centre after their initial
interview with Radio International at Eurovision in Concert 2012 in
Amsterdam earlier on this year.
Interview with Pernilla Karlsson (Finland 2012): Unfortunately, no qualification for the Grand Final of the Eurovision Song Contest for the lovely Pernilla Karlsson
who represented her native Finland at the Eurovision Song Contest 2012
in Semi Final 1 at Number 12 when only the Top 10 per Semi Final advance
to the Grand Final. The song "När jag blundar" translates to
"When I close my eyes" and is performed in Swedish due to the fact that
the area Pernilla comes from is a minority area where the language
spoken is Swedish. This is a special interview as Lilian, Camera Man
Roger and JP "kidnapped" the delegation bus of Finland and did the
interview aboard the bus :) That's a first in JP's interviewing career
:)
Interview with Iris (Belgium 2012): Belgium last qualified for
the Grand Final in 2010 in Oslo when Tom Dice won his Semi Final with
the song "Me and my guitar". In 2011 it was Witloof Bay who almost get
Belgium back into the Grand Final with the song "With love baby" but
missed a few points and ended up at Number 11 in their Semi Final
meaning not qualifying Belgium for the Grand Final in Duesseldorf. Now
in 2012, Iris represented Belgium and on reached Number 17 in Semi Final 1 with the song "Would you". Lilian, Roger and JP met the young singer for a brief interview which you can hear on the showthis week.
More interviews with the 2012 Eurostars will be on the next editions of
Radio International. Watch out for them every Wednesday.
 Eurovision Song Contest Spotlight - The Host Entries: After
reflecting on the 57th Eurovision Song Contest over the past weeks Radio
International now continuous to present a brand new series with the Eurovision
experts in the UK and Ireland to take you through the summer. The new
series is taking a look at the entries to the Eurovision Song Contest by
the countries that were hosting the contest e.g. this year the
Eurovision Song Contest came from Azerbaijan and the Azeri entry = Host
Entry is Sabina Babayeva. This week it is the turn of Ross Bennett who will be joining the team in the studio from Brighton to take a look at the host entries of 1962, 1972, 1982, 1992, 2002 and 2012.
 Euro Friends Song Contest 2012 - The Quarter Finals with Andy Simon:
Continuing next week with 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 first qualifiers for the Quarter Finals. The
website of
the Euro Friends Song Contest you will find here
where you can easily vote for your favourite Eurovision songs you wish
to see in the next stage of the contest 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 with the first Quarter Final Qualifiers of the Euro Friends Song Contest 2012.
 Home Composed Song Contest 2012 - Call out for submissions: As in previous years Radio International supports the Home Composed Song Contest
which is a songwriters competition across Europe and beyond. 2012 marks
the 21st edition of the Song Contest and the 2011 edition was won by
Denmark and this year's edition is hosted by Spain. Contact the website of the Home Composed Song Contest
to find out further details how to submit your entries and also what
the schedule looks like. Samuel Bugia Garrido and his team is ready to
guide you through the contest. Their email address is
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 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 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:
01 - 03 September 2012: OGAE Finland organises a Eurovision Cruise. Click here for details.
08 September 2012: OGAE Portugal's Annual Open Air Eurovision Concert in Setubal
 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 to Michael Nagelkerke from Maastricht, The Netherlands for winning this week's Clip Quiz.
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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