ESC Pulse Podcast: Junior ESC 2020 Review

The team are joined by special guest judge Ann Squires of ESC Armchair to look at the songs competing in the 2020 Junior Eurovision Song Contest taking place in Warsaw, Poland.

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ESC Pulse Podcast: Junior ESC 2019 Review (Part 1)

The first of two shows with special guest judge Emily Herbert from Eurovoix, where the team look at the songs competing in the 2019 Junior Eurovision Song Contest taking place in Gliwice-Silesia, Poland.

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ESC Pulse Article: Eurovision 2019 Final Predictions

Shalom! This is it, it’s the big finale. The final jury rehearsal is done, half of the final scores are now decided. So now, it is time for the team to sit down and lay down their cards for what they think the final outcome will be…

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ESC Pulse Article: Eurovision 2019 Semi 1 Predictions

Shalom! It’s that time of year again. The first jury rehearsal has been done and dusted, and now it’s time to bite the bullet and try and deduct who’s going to be getting a flight home tomorrow.

Neither of the team saw the TV feed and are making their predictions based on rehearsal footage and word from reliable sources on the ground. Will that affect their accuracy in picking our ten qualifiers? Let’s find out…

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ESC Pulse Podcast: ESC 2019 Review – Semi 1 (part 1)

The first of five shows reviewing the songs competing in the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest. This week, we have Paul Klur of Bruce Reviews Music joining us as our first special guest judge as we look at the songs in the first half of Semi-final 1.

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ESC Pulse Podcast: National Finals 2019 – Episode #6

It’s the final episode of the 2019 national final season, and there are only two finals left to cover. We also have our final round of listener’s questions and do our annual national final wrap-up where we pay tribute to the losing songs that we will miss in May.

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ESC Pulse Podcast: Junior ESC 2018 Review (Part 2)

The second of two shows with special guest judge Elliot Harris from Eurovoxx, where the team look at the songs competing in the 2018 Junior Eurovision Song Contest taking place in Minsk, Belarus.

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ESC Pulse Article: Eurovision 2018 Semi 1 Predictions

Olá! It’s that time of year again. The first jury rehearsal has been done and dusted, and now it’s time to bite the bullet and try and deduct who’s going to be getting a flight home tomorrow.

Neither of the team saw the TV feed and are making their predictions based on rehearsal footage and word from reliable sources on the ground. Will that affect their accuracy in picking our ten qualifiers? Let’s find out…

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ESC Pulse Podcast: ESC 2018 Review – Semi 1 (part 1)

The first of five shows reviewing the songs competing in the 2018 Eurovision Song Contest. This week, we have Ann Squires of ESC Armchair joining us as our first special guest judge as we look at the songs in the first half of Semi-final 1.

We also take time to pay tribute to both Katie Boyle and Lys Assia after their recent passing.

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ESC Pulse Podcast: National Finals 2018 – Episode #4

The team discuss the chosen songs in Belarus and Montenegro, and are faced with this year’s big SUPER SATURDAY with finals in… *inhales* Serbia, Germany, Armenia, Hungary, Latvia, Ukraine, Slovenia, Moldova and Romania.

There’s also the usual weekly news update, the ESC Prediction Head-To-Head, and we answer listeners’ questions.

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