| Show 24 October 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 Dana (Winner for Ireland in 1970): Savee
Entertainment presented the Irish Winners' Tour 2012 which toured
through the Republic of Ireland at the end of October. JP & Kristof
of Radio International flew to Dublin, hired a car and drove to
Limerick. A truely amazing event featuring five of the six Irish Winners
of the Eurovision Song Contest. Dana, Johnny Logan, Linda
Martin, Paul Harrington with Charlie McGettigan and Niamh Kavanagh
taking the audience a trip down Eurovision Memory Lane. But before the
show the Team of Radio International had the great honour and pleasure
to meet and interview the very first Irish Winner of the Eurovision Song
Contest - DANA who in 1970 won the contest in Amsterdam's Rai Congress Centre with the song "All kinds of everything".
Dana tells us the story of her way to Eurovision and the involvment in
the Irish politics and her great memories in the music buisness. Dana
released some 30 singles and 30 albums over the years and has stood for
election for the President of the Republic of Ireland. Enjoy listening
to this interview this week on Radio International. To see and enjoy the photos from the event - click here ! :) And to watch the Interview with Dana - click here :)
 Live Interview with Dimitris Kiklis (Swiss National Selection 2013):
The run for representing Switzerland at the Eurovision Song Contest
2013 has begun with hundres of songs being submitted to the website of
Swizz TV who are organising the national final on 15 December 2012. Many
artists and composers of songs are seeing this as the chance to have
their music being published and made available to the audience. One of
the artists Radio International is delighted to interview with week on
the show. Dimitris Kiklis is no stranger to the show as he also
has been submitting entries to the Home Composed Song Contests. Dimitis
will attempt to win the Swiss National Final called "Die Grosse
Entscheidungssgow" and with this the ticket to the Eurovision Song
Contest 2013 in Malmoe come May. His song is called "For a lifetime" and Dimitis will tell us about him, his music and his ambitions.
 Home Composed Song Contest 2012 - YOUR VOTES ARE NEEDED: 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. Their email address is
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. A total of 22 songs were submitted to compete in this years' contest. The
listeners of Radio International are encouraged to take part in voting in
this annual contest. All you have to do is to listen to the song and
pick your ten favourites and award the points in Eurovision style 1
(least favourite), 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10 and 12 points (most
favourite) and submit your Top Ten ranking to Radio International . You can hear the songs here on and you can send your Top Ten to Radio International by clicking here on CONTACT
where an international jury result will be assemled out of your votes.
The deadline for receiving your votes is at the 26 October 2012. Alternatively click here. Thank you and have fun.
 Eurovision Song Contest Spotlight - Sweden at the Eurovision Song Contest: The latest series continuous where Radio International
correspondants take a look at the entries of Sweden to the Eurovision
Song Contest. Sweden won the Eurovision Song Contest five times kicking
off with ABBA's "Waterloo" in 1974, followed by the Herreys ten years on in 1984 with "Diggi-Loo Diggi-Ley". Then with Carola in 1991 when she won with "Captured by a love storm".
Swedish success continued in 1999 when Charlotte Nilssson took the
honours with "Take me to your heaven" and in 2012 Loreen took the trophy
in Baku for the Winning Song "Euphoria". But what about the
other great Swedish entries that did not win. It is time to check them
out on Radio International over the next few weeks. This week Ross Bennett will be joining the team in the studio to take a
look at the early days of Swedish entries which will be 1975 till 1980.  Euro Friends Song Contest 2012 - The Quarter Final 1 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 will reveal the qualifiers of the First Quarter Final of the Euro Friends Song Contest 2012 which go through to the Semi 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.
 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:
27 October 2012: OGAE UK Fan Club Convention
 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 Rafael Vivas from Venezuela 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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