You know the best time to be a Eurovision fan? Slap bang in the middle of the National Finals. It feels like a new Eurovision Song Contest every weekend, an overload of classics, all soon to be forgotten. Until Roy Delaney picks out his favourite songs that never made it to the Finals...

Continuing our series of asking the lead writers at ESC Insight "Why Eurovision?" the Spanish Inquisition turns to Samantha Ross. Still busy on ESC Insider with her personal thoughts as well as the more feature based content on this site, the answer from the American is as unique and familiar as all of our stories.

Dear grown-ups, were you watching Junior Eurovision at the start of the month? Did you see anything that you'd like to borrow for May? Because we did. If you want to make the Adult Song Contest even better, why not learn from the younger generation?

Want to know what really happened in Yerevan? Read the first chapter of Ewan Spence's book about this year's Junior Eurovision Song Contest, "It's Cold and there are Children Singing" before heading over to Amazon for the full eBook.

Dr Paul Jordan takes a look at the elements that represent the modern Eurovision - is the consistent imagery a good thing for the Contest? What of the other Eurovision competitions? And what lies ahead for the heart of the Song Contest?