Female artists at Eurovision must walk a fine line to ensure they appear acceptable to the televoting audience. They must be confident but not too confident, sexy but not too sexy, funny but not too funny. Lisa-Jayne Lewis explores the way that societal biases about femininity affect results and reactions at Eurovision.
ESC Insights’ Sharleen Wright informs of the current state of play in the 2018 contest odds and how to approach your bets leading to Saturdays’ final.
It is no secret that Julia Samoylova, this year’s Russian artist, is a wheelchair user. Vienna 2015 showed that the organisers of the Eurovision Song Contest do not always plan appropriately in terms of accessibility for disabled persons. John Egan has explored some of the key venue features to see if Lisbon 2018 has done any better.
Wednesday’s edition of the daily podcast from the Big Orange Sofa in Lisbon – Ewan, Lisa-Jayne, Ross, and Elaine review the first Semi Final results; and Elaine interviews Vanja Radovanovic.
Austria, Albania, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, Ireland, Israel, and Lithuania. More to follow!
It’s been a long and winding road, but tonight we finally arrive at the first Semi Final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2018. With nineteen hopefuls set to be whittled down to ten qualifiers, John Lucas presents a guide to what you can expect from the show…
