| Show 07 November 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.
OGAE UK's Eurobash 2012 - A Look Back at an Amazing Event - click to get all the story and more.
 Interview with Brotherhood of Man (Winners 1976, United Kingdom): The
Team of Radio International had the huge honour and pleasure to meet
and interview the four members of the Brotherhood of Man who won the
Eurovision Song Contest 1976 with the song "Save your kisses for me"
which not only won the Eurovision Song Contest but was also a huge
commercial success and reached Number One in many European Charts. So
thid the follow-up singles "Angelo" and "Figaro". Chris, Pam and JP met the four in their changing room while waiting for their performance in Gateshead in aid of the Toma Fund.
The fundraising Eurovision concert had further winners of the
Eurovision Song Contest engaged such as the Bobbysocks from Norway,
Johnny Logan and Linda Martin from Ireland, Anne-Marie David from France
& Luxembourg, Scott Fitzgerald from UK and many more artists. Enjoy
this special interview with the Brotherhood of Man on the show this week. Click here to watch the video interview.
 Interview with Birgitta Haukdahl (Iceland 2003): OGAE
Sweden organised their annual Fanclub Convention on 13 October 2012 in
the municipalty of Eskilstuna near Stockholm in Sweden. National and
International artists were invited to this event such as Joan Franka
(Netherlands 2012), Glen Vella (Malta 2011), SINPLUS (Switzerland 2012),
Esther Hart (Netherlands 2012), SINPLUS (Switzerland 2012), Birgitta
Haukdahl (Iceland 2003) and
the Mother of the Eurovision Song Contest - the very first Winner Lys
Assus who back in 1956 won the Eurovision Song Contest with the song "Refrain". The Team of Radio International was in
Eskilstuna, Sweden and conducted interviews with the invited Eurovision
artists including with Birgitta Haukdahl from Iceland. Birgitta opened the Eurovision Song Contest 2003 with the song "Open your heart" which ranked 8th at the end of the night. Enjoy! To see the photos of the OGAE Sweden event including the reception in the Town Hall of Eskilstuna - click here . Watch the interview with Birgitta - click here.
 Home Composed Song Contest 2012 - The Results: 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 Radio International and listeners formed an international jury voting on the 22 submitted songs to the contest. The Voting Result of the Radio International Jury is available here.
This overall results of the 23 juries of the
Home Composed Song Contest 2012 have been calculated and will be
announced on Radio International this week. As well you can see them on
the website of the Home Composed Song Contest.
 Eurovision Song Contest Spotlight - Sweden at the Eurovision Song Contest: The current 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 Chris Poppe will be joining the team in the studio to take a
look at the early days of Swedish entries which will be 1985 till 1988.  Euro Friends Song Contest 2012 - The Quarter 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 will reveal the qualifiers of the Third 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:
 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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Radio International TV Channel with Chat Room: Radio International launched its own 
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 | < Prev | Next > |
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