The Eurovision Song Contest is more than three hours on a Saturday night. Ewan looks at the importance of the Song Contest, and why the year-long cycle is important to the artists who take part at any stage of the Contest.

In the first in our series of Voting Insight’, Ben Robertson goes through the 2014 results to assess what would have been changed under the different voting systems of Eurovision over the last ten years.

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.

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