Show 13 August 2008 |
Listen to the Show: Hour 1 | Hour 2 | Play List | Hour 3 (RIG)
This week "Radio International goes ABBA". Sally & JP entertain you with the music and the life of the most
successful artists emerging from the Eurovision Song Contest - ABBA as they won the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest in Brighton, United Kingdom for Sweden with "Waterloo". Enjoy in this first part a selection of their music and biography. Click here to listen (Hour 3 (RIG) and Enjoy.
Regular items: Movies: A rundown of the movies offered in the cinemas near you. For more information and which movies are offered where go to the Film Ladder Website by clicking this link. The Children of Huang Shi, Don't mess with Zohan;
EXPAT/Dutch/Community News: Get your daily update of the Dutch News in English by subscribing to their Newsletter with a summary of the latest events in and around the Netherlands. Click here for the website. Wynn's Restaurant Review takes us to the Russian Restaurant Pavlov in The Hague. Kelly's EXPAT Shopping Centre. Ms. Kelly Kelly (! No mistake) joined us this week for an interview on her services she offers especially to the British EXPATS living in the Hague and around. The shop offers goods which Ms. Kelly imports from the UK. Find out more by visiting their website.
The English Breakfast Team entertains the EXPATs in the Netherlands from the SALTO Radio station in Amsterdam. Tune in for the latest current affairs items, sports and news. How to listen to THE ENGLISH BREAKFAST
visit their their website.
Science and Technology, Space News, Environment: Entertainment, Music, Interviews: Tribute to Isaac Hayes who passed away aged 65, Tribute to Eva Pflug - famour German actress best known for her role in the first ever science fiction TV servies: Space Patroul: Die Abendteuer des Raumschiff Orion. Click here to watch a trailer from YouTube ;
BLAST1386 our friendly Radio Partner:
Kieron Collins from the UK's BLAST1386 presents the 5 o'clock Rock"" on Sunday
afternoons. Listen to the repeat by clicking here. Eurovision Song Contest Corner of Radio International:
During the show we had our weekly Eurovision Song Contest Quiz
courtesy of Deo Grech from Malta. Marcus Keppel-Palmer talked about the Eurovision News of the Week: Sir Terry Wogan to quit Eurovision commentary on BBC 1 but also he took a look at the Eurovision Song Contest from 1991.
Also a big thanks to our listeners who sent in requests for songs to be
play on the show. What we did not manage this week we will catch up
next week.
OGAE Malta has added a new section to their website OGAE Malta. It is called "Eurovision...looking back ". Check it out and enjoy your occasional trip back down Memory Lane of the Eurovision Song Contest with OGAE Malta.
Eurovision Song Contest Interviews the Radio International Team has done can be heard by visiting our Eurovision
section of this website.
Upcoming Eurovision Conventions / Events:
26 - 28 Sep 2008: OGAE Croatia' s 6th Rock me International Convention. 03 Oct 2008: OGAE UK 's Eurobash 2008 in Birmingham
15 Nov 2008:
Eurovision Club Germany Convention 22 Nov 2008:
Junior Eurovision Song Contest from Limasol, Cyprus
29 Nov 2008:
Eurovision Song Contest Gala near Stockholm, Sweden (tbc)
17 Jan 2009:
OGAE Germany Convention in Munich, Germany
Eurovision News is available on www.eurovision.tv and you can find constant updates of the latest Eurovision Song Contest News as they happen on esctoday.com. Alternative Eurovision News Websites are oikotimes.com, Stars of Eurovision, 12points.tv and escmalta.com.
Eurovision Music requests as well as other music requests are most welcome and can be done via our website's CONTACT 's page. Let us know what you want to hear and where you are from.
ORadio
in Antwerp airs a weekly radio programme called EurovisiO every Monday
evening from 2200 - 2300 hours. Philip Vereyken. A must for Eurovision
freaks. Lots of nice Eurovision music, interviews and news - however, in the
Flemish language. You can listen to a repeat of EurovisO by clicking here.
Colin Berry,
the legendary voice from BBC Radio 2 in the UK now hosts a Saturday
Radio Show on BBC Three Counties Radio including a Eurovision Spot.
Colin Berry was the spokesperson for the British jury for over 20 years.
General Music: The show is of course spiced with the best of music old and new and of course your requests. You can send in your requests by clicking on the CONTACT link in the MAIN MENU. Also if you have public service announcements you wish us to make, please feel free to send us the information and we will be happy to air them for you. And our very own Hit Hunter is ready at your disposal to dig out your music requests. Send him an email to This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
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