Tag: Switzerland

ESC Pulse Podcast: National Finals 2020 – Episode #6

National final season is over for 2020, and the team take time to reminisce over the highlights of the past six weeks and list the songs that will be sadly missed. There is also a brief discussion about how the current coronavirus pandemic could affect this year’s contest. We also have our last round of listener’s questions.

NOTE – since recording, the coronavirus situation has escalated further, but most of our comments on the situation still apply.

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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 2 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 2 (part 1)

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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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 2)

The second of five shows reviewing the songs competing in the 2018 Eurovision Song Contest. This week, we have Elliot Harris from Eurovoxx joining us as our second special guest judge as we look at the songs in the second half of Semi-final 1.

We also take time to discuss the running order a little bit.

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ESC Pulse Podcast: National Finals 2018 – Episode #2

The team finally get it together to catch up on the national finals they’ve missed, resulting in entries from France, Spain, Czech Republic, Malta and Switzerland.

They also preview national finals from the UK (eek!), Denmark and, very briefly, Italy. The semi-final allocation draw also gets dissected.

There’s also the usual news update, the ESC Prediction Head-To-Head, and the team answer listener’s questions.

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ESC Pulse Article: Eurovision 2017 Semi 2 Predictions

Здравствуйте! Time for the second round. The second jury rehearsal has been done and dusted, half the scores are in, and now we have the impossible task of trying to deduct who will be getting a flight home on Friday morning.

Kylie watched the jury rehearsal on the screens in the press centre, while John was in the arena to take in the live experience. Let’s see if and how their opinions are affected…

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ESC Pulse Podcast: ESC 2017 Review – Semi 2 (part 2)

The fourth of five shows reviewing the songs competing in the 2017 Eurovision Song Contest. This week, we have Ann Squires of ESC Armchair joining us as our fourth special guest judge as we look at the songs in the second half of Semi-final 2.

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