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Eurovision Chat Over Coffee From The Archive: Kenneth McKellar Written by on August 12, 2022

There’s a shortlist of Eurovision 2023 venues announced today, but let’s look further back into the archives for this weekend. Stay in touch with all things Song Contest with the ESC Insight podcast. Add our RSS Feed to follow us in your favourite podcast application, or click here to follow us in iTunes and never miss an episode.

Another trip into the archives this week, as we head back to 1966 via 1983 when Radio Six International‘s Tony Currie say down with the United Kingdom’s 1966 entrant Kenneth McKellar to talk about his long and successful career away from the Song Contest.

It’s a timely reminder that artists can and do have wildly successful careers after the Song Contest. In this forty-year-old interview, he talks about the changing nature of the music industry, the nature of the synthesiser in popular music, his television programs, and writing for Monty Python..

Eurovision Chat Over Coffee From The Archive: Kenneth McKellar

Ewan Spence introduces Radio Six International’s Tony Currie as has a coffee and a chat with Kenneth McKellar. You know him as the United Kingdom’s singer in 1966, but Currie explores other areas of McKellar’s career.

(First aired Radio Six International, 1983)

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About The Author: Ewan Spence

British Academy (BAFTA) nominated broadcaster and writer Ewan Spence is the voice behind The Unofficial Eurovision Song Contest Podcast and one of the driving forces behind ESC Insight. Having had an online presence since 1994, he is a noted commentator around the intersection of the media, internet, technology, mobility and how it affects us all. Based in Edinburgh, Scotland, his work has appeared on the BBC, The Stage, STV, and The Times. You can follow Ewan on Twitter (@ewan) and Facebook (facebook.com/ewanspence).

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