Interview with Sheila Furguson of the Three Degrees: A couple of years ago The Toma Fund of Newcastle in the United Kingdom organised an amazing event on Wednesday, 11 April 2012 in the Sage, Gateshead with the involvement of many Eurovision Winners and performers such as Linda Martin, Johnny Logan, Bobbysocks, Anne-Marie David, Scott Fitzgerald, Scooch, Josh Dubovi, Nicki French, Black Lace and others. The aim of the event was to raise money in aid of the the Toma Fund and children suffering from cancer. Details about the Toma Fund can be found here and who wishes to donate money for this good cause please see the website how to donate.  Radio International was on location as the only Eurovision media having the great pleasure to interview the artists which were already broadcast back in 2012, however, not of one very famous person that actually was the co-host of the event: Sheila Furguson of the Three Degrees. JP & Chris took the chance to chat with Sheila about her musical career and the link to the Eurovision Song Contest. The Three Degrees had many mega hits in the 70s such as "When will I see you again" and "Dirty ol' man" just to mention a few. Details about the group can be found here. Listen to the interview on this week's edition of Radio International. 

 

Interview with Linda Bengtzing (Melodifestivalen 2005, 2006, 2008 & 2011): Nathan Wadell from escXtra and Radio International had the big pleasure to meet and speak to one of the most energetic singers of Sweden who early last August was part of the guest line up for London's Eurofest - Ms. Linda Bengtzing. For several years Linda took part at Melodifestivalen which is Sweden's national selection process to find that song to represent Sweden at the Eurovision Song Contest but to date could not manage to achieve that goal. Hopefully in the near future. Details about Linda can be found here but also Radio International would like to say thank you to escXtra for the interview with Linda which you can hear on this week's edition of Radio International.  

Eurovision Song Contest Spotlight - Eurovision Songwriters - This week:  The Radio International Spotlight through the summer of 2014 features the songwriters at the Eurovision Song Contest and in this series the Eurovision Experts of Radio International will be taking a look at the songwriters that brought us many great Eurorivison entries. Ending the current series this week is Alasdair Rendall who will be taking a lock at the works of Sweden's Fredrik Kempe and the many nice songs he has added to the ears of the many Eurovision fans.   

 

Eurovision Song Contest Spotlight XL - The Semi Final entries that should have qualified for the Grand Final:  Returning to the airwaves this week and that in a longer version than the usual slot is Marcus Keppel-Palmer who will be joining JP for the third hour of this week's edition of the show to take a look at some of the great Eurovision entries that actually should have qualified for the Grand Final of the Eurovision Song Contest. This week listen to the choice of JP who selected 20 songs he thinks should have qualified for the Grand Final. Marcus and JP chat about those entries and of course also play ten of them. Radio International has received some submissions from listeners and they will be featured in the weeks to come on the show, however, if you would like to submit your choice of Semi Final entries that should have made the Grand Final please send your Top Twenty list of songs to CONTACT and let us know why you select each song.   

 

 

Malta Summer Hit Song Contest 2014:  On 06 August 2014 edition of Radio International Deo Grech from Malta One Radio talked about the Malta Summer Hit Song Contest 2014 which is now in the preparation stages where the 18 competing songs are being introduced on Malta's F-Living TV channel. Courtesy of Marc Calleja-Bayliss from escflashmalta.com Radio International will introduce the songs on the radio every week. The Grand Final of the contest will be in September and by that time all songs will have been aired on Radio International.