This Saturday sees Melodifestivalen scrap Andra Chansen and replace it with a new concept… a Semi Final. Ben Robertson explains what it is, how it works, and how the results may change because of it

More performers win a ticket to Turin, the latest National Final results, and Michael Bolton joins the party, in the latest Insight News podcast.

John Lucas rounds up the latest developments from a tumultuous month in the latest edition of the ESC Insight newsletter.

Fin Ross Russell is joined by Alex Andrumic and Natalia Anderson to try and answer the question of success at the Song Contest in The Eurovision Question podcast.

As the continent’s biggest National Final moves from the Avicii Arena to Sweden’s National Football Stadium, Ben Robertson looks at why tickets for this year’s show have been so hard to sell, and what the production team does to mitigate the effect of this.

National Final results, country updates, and this week’s show diary, in the latest Insight News podcast.