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ESC Insight presents Go North! Episode 5: Looking back at Pan-Arcticvision Written by on October 7, 2026

In the final episode of our Pan-Arcticvision podcast series, Phil Doré and Aisling Tempany review Pan-Arcticvision from their holiday apartment in the Faroe Islands.

Spoiler Warning

This episode discusses the winners. If you want to watch the show before hearing this information, watch the YouTube stream below.

The Podcast In The Morning After The Night Before

Pan-Arcticvision was a riotous display of music and self-determination, in the beautiful setting of the Faroe Islands. Viewers were presented with Icelandic prog rock, Alaskan folk, Inuit mythology, Faroese rap and Sami joiking. The show may have a tiny fraction of the budget of Eurovision, but what it lacked in holograms and laser effects it made up for with heart and authenticity.

This is a song contest that knows its own ideals and firmly lives by them. Perhaps this is a lesson Eurovision could learn from events like Pan-Arcticvision?

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About The Author: Phil Dore

Phil Dore is a nurse living in Cardiff, and host of the Eurovision Wars podcast, which explores the intersection of Eurovision and geopolitics. He is philjdore.bsky.social on Bluesky and zarathustraspake on Instagram.

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