| Show 15 August 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.
 Interview with Alexander Rybak (Winner 2009, Norway): As part of
the Antwerp Pride's Closing Ceremony 2012 an afternoon concert was
organised with national and international artists performing live on
stage. Also performing were from the side of the Eurovision Song Contest
Kate Ryan and the Winner of the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest - Alexander Rybak who won for Norway with the song "Fairytale"
receiving the absolute maximum number of points every received of 392
from all the international juries at the Eurovision Song Contest 2009.
Alexander performed his winning song "Fairytale" as well as "Roll with the wind"
and his latest song in collaboration with Romania's Paul Selling. After
the stage concert the Team of Radio International interviewed Alexander
Rybak which you can hear during this week's edition of the show. You can watch the interview as well by clicking here.  Interview with Paul Seling (Romania 2010): Paul Seling was also part of the Closing Ceremony of the 2012 Antwerp Pride. She beautifully performed Whitney Houston's "I will always love you" as well her latest offering called "Chiar pot zbura".
Then the highlight was the performance of the new duet with Alexander
Rybak together of the song penned by Alexander Rybak called "I'll show you"
published by CAPSOUND and available by ITunes. Right after the
interview with Alexander Rybak Radio International also interviewed the
Romanian Superstar Paula Seling. Enjoy!
You can watch the interview as well by clicking here.
 Interview with Sean Banan at Stockholm's Schlager Evening 2012:
The Team of Radio International every year travels to various events
involving the artists of the Eurovision Song Contest and the national
finals. This is also no
exception this year and Lilian, Eric and JP were in Stockhom on 02
August 2012
interviewing various artists that performed at the 2012 edition of the
Schlager Evening held open-air in a park in Stockholm city in Sweden.
This week Radio International airs one more interview from this event
and that is with funny comedian on Swedish TV - Sean Banan who reached the Andra Chansen (Second Chance) Contest in Melodifestivalen 2012 trying to qualify with the song "Sean den förste Banan"
lifted
from the same titled album - for the Grand Final of Melodifestivalen.
Radio International had already the pleasure of a very funny interview
with Sean during Melodifestivalen 2012 and you can hear the follow on
story this week on Radio International as Eric, Lilian and JP chatted
with the Swedish TV Star.
 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 the 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 Chris Poppe who will be joining the team in the studio to take a look at the host entries of 1997, 2007, 1958, 1968, 1978, 1988 and 1998 . Euro Friends Song Contest 2012 - The Eight Final 3 Qualifiers with Andy Simon: Andy is back with the Euro Friends Song Contest in search for
the ultimate
Eurovision song
as voted for by the many fans around the world. Andy is back to reveal the qualifiers from Eight Final 3 of the Euro Friends Song Contest 2012 which go through to 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.
 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 This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it  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:
 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 once again go to the Quiz King Bert Ouwerkerk from Utrecht, 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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