Eurovision Song Contest Interview - Didrik Solli-Tangen (Norway 2010):  At the end of July 2010 Lilian, JP and Eric were in Stockholm for a huge Eurovision Event where many Eurovision artists were interviewed. Radio International continues to air these interviews on the show this week.  Listen to an interview with Didrik Solli-Tangen who represented Norway at the 2010 Eurovision Song Contest with the song "My heart is yours" reaching Number 20 in the Final.

Euro Friend Song Contest 2010 - Qualifiers of HEAT 3:  Radio International in collaboration with the Euro Friends Song Contest 2011 will be announcing the next ten qualifiers of  HEAT 3.  Andy Simon, prime organiser of this contest will be joining us once again to reveal the songs which will go through into the next step of the competition. Check out what the international juries voted for via the Face Book Page of the contest. During the past couple of weeks fans of this contest could vote for their ten favourite songs within the third one hundred songs of the Eurovision Song Contest. Heat 4 will be starting real soon. Join to vote for your favourite Eurovision songs by clicking on this link which takes you to the Face Book Page of the Event. Remember, you have to be a member in order to join the voting. 

Euro-Mamaia Festival Interview with Olivier Vanhoutten:  EURO-MAMAIA is celebrating it's 40th Anniversary at the end of August 2010. Olivier Vanhoutten will be joining the team of Radio International to inform us all about the history of the Romanian event and also gives a rundown of which famous artists are going to be singing at EURO-MAMAIA. 

Eurovision Song Contest Spotlight - 30th Anniversary of the 1980 Eurovision Song Contest:  There is always a reason to celebrate and this week Alasdair Rendall joins us during the show to recap the special songs, scenes and parts of the 1980 Eurovision Song Contest that this year celebrates it's 30th Anniversary. Johnny Logan won in The Hague, The Netherlands for Ireland. But more find out when Alasdair Rendall joins us on this week's edition of Radio International.  

Eurovision Song Contest News:  Also Eurovision Newsreaders need to go on holidays which is the case for Luke Fisher who is away for a couple of weeks. Chris Poppe stands in for Luke this week to bring you the news and the latest developments connected to the Eurovision Song Contest. Whether it is music releases of Eurovision performers, special concerts, gossip, etc Chris will have it for us during the weekly edition of Radio International. In addition, Eurovision News is available on www.eurovision.tv, oikotimes.com, esctime.com, escdaily.com, esctoday.com and escflashmalta.com. 

Eurovision Song Contest Special - Nicki French (United Kingdom 2000): The third hour of Radio International this week  is entirely devoted to Nicki French who represented the United Kingdom at the 2000 Eurovision Song Contest when it was staged in Stockholm's Globen Arena. The song "Don't play that song again" reached Number 16. On 17 July 2010, the Eurovision Club (EC) Germany celebrated their 10th anniversary and Nicki French was invited as special guest of honour. JP did an in-debt interview with the singer who is full of charme and fun. You will like to listen to this interview and listen to some of her other songs.   Click here to take you to the Third Hour of the show for this particular special on Radio International.

Eurovision Song Contest Interview - Jill Johnson (Sweden 1998):  Lilian, JP and Eric were in Stockholm for a huge Eurovision event where many Eurovision artists were interviewed. These interviews will be broadcast in the course of the coming weeks. But this week listen to an interview with Jill Johnson who back in 1998 represented her country Sweden at the Eurovision Song Contest with the song "Kärleken är (Love is)" reaching Number 10.

Euro Friend Song Contest 2010 - Start of HEAT 3:  Radio International in collaboration with the Euro Friends Song Contest 2011 announcing the start of HEAT 3 for the international juries to vote on the Face Book Page of the contest. On the Face Book Page of the Euro Friends Song Contest, you vote for your 10 favourite songs in the Eurovision Song Contest amongst the third hundred songs of Europe's biggest music competition.  Last week Radio International revealed the ten qualifiers of HEAT 2 and now HEAT 3 has started and is open to be voted on.  Next week Radio International and Andy from the Euro Friends Song Contest will reveal the ten qualifiers. during the show. Join to vote for your favourite Eurovision songs by clicking on this link which takes you to the Face Book Page of the Event. Remember, you have to be a member in order to join the voting.

Eurovision Song Contest Spotlight - Austria to return to the Eurovision Song Contest:  Ross Bennett takes a look at some of the best entries and also at the history of Austria at the Eurovision Song Contest. After Austria's participation in 2007 the country pulled out and decided to return to the Eurovision Song Contest 2011. Welcome back Austria! Good to see you back!

Eurovision News. Luke Fisher joins us on a weekly basis to supply us with the latest happenings in the world of the Eurovision Song Contest. Eurovision News is available on www.eurovision.tv, oikotimes.com, esctime.com, escdaily.com, esctoday.com and escflashmalta.com. 

Eurovision Interview with Claudia Faniello (National Final in Malta 2010): Indeed, Claudia is the sister of Fabrizio Faniello who represented Malta twice at the Eurovision Song Contest (2001 & 2006). Claudia has participated various times at the Maltese National Selection to the Eurovision Song Contest in the Malta Eurosong where she had quite some great results. (2010 - Samsara, 8th / 2009 - Blue Sonata / 2008 - Sunrise, 3rd / 2008 - Caravaggio, 2nd). Claudia has released her brand new song called "I hate this song" which you can also hear on this week's edition of Radio International. 

Eurovision Song Contest Interview - Marcin Mrozinski (Poland 2010):  During the two Eurovision weeks leading up to the Semi Finals and Grand Final on 29 May 2010 the Team of Radio International met many Eurovision 2010 performers and one of them we already had to pleasure to be talking to live on Radio International before the Eurovision Song Contest 2010 - Marcin Mrozinski. Eric and JP met the singer again at the Serbian Reception and interviewed him. You can hear this interview during this week's show. Poland's entry at the 2010 Eurovision Song Contest is called "Legenda" which unfortunately did not qualify for the Grand Final of the 55th Eurovision Song Contest, however, Marcin was a great Ambassador for his country at Europe's biggest event.  

Euro Friend Song Contest 2010 - Start of HEAT 2:  Radio International in collaboration with the Euro Friends Song Contest announcing the start of HEAT 2 for the international juries to vote on the Face Book Page of the contest. On the Face Book Page of the Euro Friends Song Contest, you vote for your 10 favourite songs  in the Eurovision Song Contest  amongst the second hundred songs of Europe's biggest music competition.  Last week Radio International revealed the ten qualifiers of HEAT 1 and now HEAT 2 has started.  Next week Radio International and Andy will reveal the ten qualifiers. during the show. Join to vote for your favourite Eurovision songs by clicking on this link which takes you to the Face Book Page of the Event. Remember, you have to be a member in order to join the voting.  

Chris Poppe's Mysterious Eurovision Performers: Chris returns this week with this nice game about Eurovision performers. He has picked three performers and wrapped them in verbal and music clues and your job is it to crack his quiz in finding out who Chris has selected. The right entries go into a bag for a price from the Eurovision 2010 Goodies Bag or a Eurovision Song Contest of the past on DVD. 

Eurovision News. Luke Fisher joins us on a weekly basis to supply us with the latest happenings in the world of the Eurovision Song Contest. Eurovision News is available on www.eurovision.tv, oikotimes.com, esctime.com, escdaily.com, esctoday.com and escflashmalta.com. 

• Austria - Return to Eurovision in 2011
• Alternative Lyrics Contest
• Junior Eurovision Song Contest - List of the countries participating, clips available
• Sweden - Magnus Carlsson & Charlotte Perrelli release an duet album

This is just a selection. Go to www.oikotimes.com for detailed information.

 

Your 3 Minutes of Fame on Radio International:   This week we are joined by Luis de la Cruiz from the United States of America to tell us his Eurovision experience. But we would also like to know from you your first Eurovision Experience either live in a Final of the Eurovision Song Contest or watching at home or during a Eurovision party. Tell us how you found out about the Eurovision Song Contest. What special things do you remember, liked, disliked and of course your favourite Eurovision Song. We will call you during the show - have a nice chat with you and then play out with your favourite Eurovision song. For that please contact us via CONTACT and let us know your phone number and the song you wish to have played on the show. This will be great fun. We need your participation for this - so please don't be shy. :)