With thousands of songs submitted, how does the Melodifestivalen jury cut them down to just fourteen? Ben Robertson explains how, in his Melfest memoir.

With a host city being chosen it is time to check up on all the happenings in the Eurovision Song Contest world with another ESC Insight Newsletter. In this edition Robertson’s Reflection looks to Kyiv and tries to work out what the new host city might want to learn from the old one.

Although the announcement has been delayed a number of times, today the community found out where we’re all being asked to visit in May. We’re off to Kyiv for the Eurovision Song Contest 2017!

Andy Williams might have thought he was singing about Christmas, but he was wrong. September is the most wonderful time of the year… at least it is for Ewan Spence.

Ben Robertson had one of sixteen places on the Melodifestivalen selection jury for 2016. In the first of a three-part series about the experience, he outlines what the criteria and expectations SVT gave to each jury member before they even set foot inside the jury room.

Just like that, we start again. The September 1st deadline is past, broadcasters get ready to listen to over 10,000 songs, and the exciting road to finding one three-minute winner in May has begun. Ewan Spence brings you the latest news from the world of the Eurovision Song Contest (with a garnish of X-Factor).