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Radio International - The Ultimate Eurovision Experience (2024-11-27): Junior Eurovision 2024: Junior Eurovision 2024 - We have a Winner - Georgia, Montesong 2025, Home Composed Song Contest 2024, ...
Radio International - The Ultimate Eurovision Experience is broadcast from Malta's Radio 105FM on Tuesday evenings from 2100 - 0059 hours CET. The show is also broadcast on SWITCH Radio Europe in the United Kingdom live on Wednesday evenings from 1900 - 2300 hours CET as well as on the Facebook Page of Eurovision Radio International with an interactive chatroom.
AT A GLANCE - ON THE SHOW THIS WEEK
Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2024 - Interview with Simone Grande (JESC 2024, Italy, Number 9)
Melodifestivalen 2025 - Presentation of the 30 acts competing
Eurovision Spotlight: The History of Switzerland at the Eurovision Song Contest with Dermot Manning
Home Composed Song Contest 2024 - Introducing the songs (Part 2 of 3)
Eurovision News with Nick van Lith from www.escXtra.com
Eurovision Birthday File with David Mann
Eurovision Cover Spot with David Mann
Eurovision Vault with Michael Goodrich
Eurovision Calendar with Javier Leal
Eurovision 2025 National Final Updates with Alain Forrotti
New Music Releases by Eurovision Artists
our music requests
Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2024 - We have a Winner: The Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2024 took place in the Caja Magica (Magic Box) in Madrid on 16 Nov 2024 with young singers from 17 countries taking part.
Congratulations go to
Andria Putkaradze
winning the
Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2024 for Georgia
with the song "To My Mom"
Radio International's roving reporter Alain Forrotti has been on location in Madrid and chatted with two of the 17 young acts you will hear on the show this week. Victoria Nicole from Portugal reached second place at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2024 with the song "Esperança" receiving 213 points. The interview was broadcast on Radio International last week. The second young artist Alain chatted with is Simone Grande who represented Italy this year with the song "Pigiama Party" coming 9th on the Grand Final Scoreboard. You hear this interview on the show this week.
Simone Grande
Junior Eurovision 2024, Italy
The Official Website of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2024 is available - here. Also more details are available at Wikipedia - click here.
Melodifestivalen 2025: On 26 Nov 2024, Swedish Broadcaster SVT revealed the lineup of Melodifestivalen 2025 with the return of former Eurovision Winner Mans Zelmerloew who won in 2015 with the song "Hero". But also there are more returnees to Melodifestivalen and who wins this will be representing Sweden at the Eurovision Song Contest 2025 in Basel, Switzerland come May. JP will be looking at the returning acts to Melodifestivalen 2025. More details of Melodifestivalen 2025 can be viewed here at our colleagues from Wikipedia - click here.
The Home Composed Song Contest 2024: The annual music competition for non-professional musicians takes place again and is already in full swing. The public and jury already cast their votes as well. Visit the website of the Home Composed Song Contest - click here
The Home Composed Song Contest is in its 33rd year, this is a competition for Eurovision fans who write, perform and produce their own music, who enter their own original song composition (audio only) and then also take part as a jury, to help choose the winning song. This year there are 28 songs from 13 different countries, and you can listen to the songs, and read the lyrics and bios on the official website - click here
The Radio International Team once again formed one Jury and you will be able to hear the songs also on Radio International - The Ultimate Eurovision Experience. Once again very high standards this year. Well done to all participants and may the best entry win.
Starting this week Radio International will introduce the first lot of songs of the Home Composed Song Contest 2024.
The results should be published on 08 December 2024. Details where and when will be published here.
Eurovision Spotlight - The History of Switzerland at the Eurovision Song Contest: The Eurovision Song Contest 2024 was won by Nemo who represented Switzerland in Malmoe, Sweden this year with the song "The Code". With that victory Nemo took the contest back to Switzerland where it all begun in 1956 with the late Lys Assia from Switzerland being the first Winner of the Eurovision Song Contest with the song "Refrain". Celine Dion from Canada represented and won for Switzerland with the song "Ne partez pas sans moi" in 1988 giving Switzerland three victories.
As a tradition the Team of Radio International reviews all the Eurovision entries of the upcoming host country and this week Dermot Manning continues the series in the Eurovision Spotlight taking a look at the Swiss entries to Eurovision.
The Eurovision Vault is a new segment on Radio International presented by with Michael Goodrich from Tuscon Arizona in the USA.
Also JP will be joined by David Mann for the Eurovision Birthday File and Eurovision Coverspot. Nick will be presenting the Eurovision News courtesy of escXtra.com. And Michael Goodrich opens the Eurovision Vault. There will be a lot of the great new releases of Eurovision artists on the show as well as great Eurovision Classics. Javier will be updating us on the upcoming Eurovision events in the Eurovision Calendar and and an
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