| Show 25 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 Lys Assia (Switzerland 1956, 1957 & 1968): The
Mother of the Eurovision Song Contest as Lys Assia is the very first
Winner when it all kicked off in the Teatro Kursal in Lugo Switzerland
back in 1956 when seven countries competed for the very first trophy.
Each country performed two songs. Lys Assia became the Winner for
Switzerland with herthen French language entry called "Refrain". It is now known where her second entry "Das alte Karussel"
ended up in the very first Eurovision Song Contest. She then
represented Switzerland in the following two years in 1957 with "L'enfant Que J'etais" which reached Number 8 and in 1958 Lys Assia came second with "Giorgio".
In 2012 she attempted again to represent her native Switzerland at the
Eurovision Song Contest with a Ralph Siegel composition called "C'etait
ma vie" which came 8th in the Swiss National Selection for the
Eurovision Song Contest 2012. Lys Assia as the "Mother" of the
Eurovision Song Contest likes to be with her "Family" and is very often a
guest of honour during the Grand Final. Also the 2012 event was no
exception and just before the Loreen's Winner's Press Conference JP met
Lys Assia and did an interview with her which you can hear during this
week's edition of Radio International.
 Interview with Gaitana (Ukraine 2012): The host of the 2005
edition of the Eurovision Song Contest - Ukraine - was represented by
bubbly and energetic Gaitana with the song "Be my guest" which
successfully went from the Semi Final into the Grand Final and ther it
ended up at Number 16. Lilian, Roger and JP had the pleasure to meet Gaitana in
the Baku Press Centre right after her Press Conference and conducted an
interview with the Ukrainian artist. You can hear this interview during
this week's edition of Radio International but in addition also she
already has released a follow-on single onto the music market which
Radio International will also feature on the show this week.
 Eurovision Weekend in Berlin, Germany - Interview with Salman Tanzeem:
OGAE Finland, OGAE Germany and EC Germany are organising the first
every international Eurovision Weekend in Berlin from Friday - Sunday,
03 - 05 August 2012. Full details will be available during the interview
with Salman Tanzeem who will be joining Radio International from Berlin
to tell us all about this special Eurovision event held in the
Germany's capitol for a whole weekend. Already some details are
available here.
 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 Alasdair Rendall who will be joining the team in the studio from London to take a look at the host entries of 1965, 1974, ,
1975, 1984, 1994 and 2004.
 Euro Friends Song Contest 2012 - The Quarter Finals with Andy Simon:
Andy is on his well-earned summer vacation which means that the next
time he will be on Radio International will be on 08 August 2012 when he
will reveal the qualifiers of Eight Final 2 & 3 of what then has
been voting for by the fans of Eurovision. The Euro Friends Song Contest
is in search for
the ultimate
Eurovision song
as voted for by the many fans around the world. 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.
 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. Details.
07 September 2012: London's EUROFEST with Tina Cousins. Details.
08 September 2012: OGAE Portugal's Annual Open Air Eurovision Concert in Setubal. Details.
 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 Javier Leal from Venezuela for winning this week's Clip Quiz.
Further to the Fabrizio Faniello Quiz - Radio International is delighted to announce that the winner is Cristina Giuntini from bella Italia.
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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