It’s a busy week this week as the team discuss national final participants with sour grapes, why the finals in both Norway and Finland have us worried, and if Spain could succeed by making the audience swoon. We also discuss semi-finals in Estonia and Portugal.
We also have our weekly news roundup and answer some listeners questions.
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We’re almost at the end of national final season as we look at the selected entries over the past week, and preview the last set of finals in Israel, Denmark, Finland, Portugal and Sweden. We also have our weekly news roundup.
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We discuss whether a stage mishap was real or not and the first of two successive Super Saturdays as we look at the selected entries over the past week, and preview upcoming finals in Croatia, Estonia, Iceland, Moldova, Romania and Serbia. We also have our weekly news roundup and answer some listener’s questions.
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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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The third of five shows reviewing the songs competing in the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest. This week, we have Rory Gannon formerly of ESC Views joining us as our third special guest judge as we look at the songs in the first half of Semi-final 2.
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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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We make an attempt to pick up the pieces after one country’s national final still leaves us no entry and preview some upcoming finals in Iceland, Portugal, Norway, Moldova and Serbia (also Georgia, but they’ve given us no songs, boo). We also have our weekly news roundup and answer some listener’s questions.
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Olá! 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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Olá! It’s that time of year again. The second 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.
John was in the arena for the jury rehearsal, and Kylie is making her 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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The third of five shows reviewing the songs competing in the 2018 Eurovision Song Contest. This week, we have Ciaran Urry-Tuttiett of The Eurovision Showcase joining us as our third special guest judge as we look at the songs in the first half of Semi-final 2.
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