Eurovision Calling

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Scott Mills hosts your weekly Eurovision backstage pass to the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest.

  1. 05/24/2019

    Goodnight Europe!

    In this special, last episode, Scott chats with the man who was victorious in 2019, Duncan Laurence! Plus, we hear from our Prince Michael Rice and give San Marino's Serhat a call. After 18 episodes we’re all Eurovision’ed out! Thank you so much to everyone to who emailed us and downloaded the podcast!

    25 min

  2. 05/19/2019

    Eurovision 2019 Final

    NB – Contains spoilers! It’s been Eurovision Christmas with the final and here’s our Boxing Day equivalent debrief! What. A. Show. We whizzed you through our personal highlights and moments of the four hour epic and who we predicted would win against what actually happened. We chatted to Rylan after his turn as representative of the British Jury (and he doesn’t agree with all of their choices), plus Daniel ‘wizard’ Radcliffe shared his Eurovision love and brought us our penultimate lyric of the week. We got reassurance from Jayde about how our Prince was doing (all are agreed he did an amazing performance) and guys, we really needed to talk about Madonna.

    33 min

  3. 05/17/2019

    It’s Eurovision Eve!

    We gave Netta a call right after her epic performance at Semi-Final 1 and we also had a visit from the Godfather of Eurovision, Graham Norton! And, there’s no denying the fact that they became the brother and sister duo of Eurovision 2019, so Jayde chatted to our Prince Michael Rice and gave him some last minute big-sisterly advice ahead of his jury performance.

    33 min

  4. 05/15/2019

    Semi-Final 1

    Jayde and Scott were in Tel Aviv and gave their full analysis of Semi-Final 1, including all the backstage gossip from the UK’s commentary booth. But that’s not all we had in store for you, Scott had a catch-up with Mel Giedroyc and Jayde was reunited with our Prince Michael Rice and, well, our honorary Prince, seeing as he was born in Croydon and wrote our song - Sweden’s John Lundvik!

    30 min

  5. 05/07/2019

    Rylan, Michael Rice, Kate Miller-Heidke and Richard Osman

    We made it! This episode was just ONE WEEK away from the first 2019 semi final and to celebrate, we talked to Scott’s other Eurovision partner in crime, Rylan! Montenegro’s D-Mol went ‘Under the Spotlight’ and we had a final catch up with our Prince, Michael Rice, before Tel Aviv! Jayde also chatted to one of her favourite acts of the competition, Australia’s Kate Miller Heidke! And finally, Eurovision Lyric of the Week was recited by none other than Richard Osman from Pointless!

    32 min

  6. 04/30/2019

    Euphoria

    We spoke to the woman responsible for possibly the greatest Eurovision song of all time, 2012’s Eurovision Champion - Loreen! We also had the host of Radio 1’s Drag Queens' Den podcast and Eurovision superfan Glyn Fussell in the studio with us! And at the end of the show just to top all of this Eurovision goodness off, we heard from the absolute Godfather of Eurovision, Graham Norton read our Eurovision Lyric of the Week!

    30 min

  7. 04/23/2019

    Conchita Wurst, Duncan Laurence and Idris Elba

    This episode we spoke to Eurovision royalty, they’re arguably the most iconic Eurovision winner in recent history and were serving us bearded lady realness WAY before The Greatest Showman came along, it’s 2014’s Eurovision winner - CONCHITA! Scott also talked to the man tipped to win the entire 2019 contest, Duncan Laurence from The Netherlands. At your request, we put Iceland's Hatari 'Under The Spotlight' and we also heard from Eurovision Hero, Dina. Plus, the ACTUAL Idris Elba read our Eurovision Lyric of The Week.

    34 min

  8. 04/16/2019

    The London Eurovision Party!

    We spilled all the piping hot tea from behind the scenes of The London Eurovision Party 2019! Italy's Mahmood talked opera with Jayde, Spain's Miki Núñez took a siesta, Norway's KEiiNO taught us some Sámi and Finland's Darude & Sebastian Rejman shared some of their Tel Aviv staging secrets. Plus, Jayde and Scott were given a very special job and got to announce The UK's Michael Rice to the stage! But for those of you who don’t like change, or in fact, parties, we also heard from another Eurovision Hero and 2014’s champion Conchita read our Eurovision Lyric of the Week.

    31 min
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Scott Mills hosts your weekly Eurovision backstage pass to the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest.

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  • Creator
    BBC Sounds
  • Years Active
    2K
  • Episodes
    19
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © (C) BBC 2019
  • Show Website
    Eurovision Calling

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