This week the BBC opened up the UK 2015 entry to online submissions. Ewan Spence examines the tweaked process to ask why the BBC has changed tack, and can it discover a solid entry?

We’ve heard the first entries available for Eurovision 2015. It’s bizarre as always. Check out our favourites and the best bits of Eurovision news in our latest newsletter.

It might seem a touch quixotic, a tiny bit mad, but Ewan is continuing in his quest to review every Eurovision song that has taken to the Finals before the start of the 60th show in Vienna in May 2015. With more than 400 songs already reviewed over the summer, the project is still on course.

Any Eurovision fan on Mark Zuckerberg’s social network will by now have been tagged in the ‘Top Eurovision Songs’ meme. it’s another meme-chain, and yes, Facebook is likely to be mining all this data to sell you music in the near future, but it’s fascinating to me on another level.

The ESC Insight newsletter still gives you the latest headlines in the Eurovision world. Even in September there is news, read the best bits in our newsletter. This week Robertson’s Reflection talks Junior Eurovision with the dad of Swedish singer Julia Kedhammar.

News and updates from the world of Eurovision and Junior Eurovision, with music from Kenneth McKellar, and hosted by Ewan Spence.