With the announcement of the Barbara Dex Award for 2014, we here thought that the fashions on show at the Eurovision Song Contest deserved a little bit more catwalk than the annual vote for “OMG, what is that?!?”. So we asked Debbie O’Hare to cast an expert eye over this year’s rags to see where the riches were.

Now we come to the hard truths. The moments when broadcasters need to look in the mirror and accept responsibility. The time when the right thing to say is “that was wrong”. Looking back over the selection shows of Eurovision 2014, there were some songs that simply should have stayed in the nationals and handed the ticket to someone else.

As part of the ESC Insight radio syndication package, Ewan took a look back at this year’s Song Contest, and kicked the PED blues into touch with an energetic hour of music and chat. Are you ready to listen and get your weekend started?

Everyone remembers their first time at the Eurovision Song Contest, but not everyone who watches the Contest at home can make it out to the arena and the circus that sits alongside the world’s favourite music show. So we asked first-time attendee at the Contest Debbie O’Hare what it’s like to be devoured by Eurovision

With close to 10,000 songs submitted across the European broadcasters, there’s a lot of scope to pick the wrong song for your country’s Eurovision Song Contest entry. That doesn’t mean it’s impossible to get it right. Through the National Finals this year, a number of countries managed to get the perfect song to Copenhagen for the Contest. Who got it right when they were selecting a song via public vote?

With the release of the full televote rankings and the individual rankings for each jury member, we can look at the differences between the two camps. John Egan compares the results of a 100% jury vote to a 100% televote in the first of a series of articles on ESC Insight looking at the voting issues and trends of Eurovision 2014.