Following their 2nd place at the event in 2014 and a successful bid, Sofia will play hosts to the 2015 Junior Eurovision Song Contest. Our resident travel guru, Sharleen Wright, provides some valuable hints and tips to prepare for arrival and examines what we can expect once there.
Once more, ESC Insight and Radio Six International will be bringing you a week of radio programming from Sofia and the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2015, including live coverage of the Grand Final on Saturday 21st November.
As the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2015 approaches, John Lucas takes a trip back to 2005 to reflect on how the Contest has evolved over the past decade.
After many months of silence it was confirmed in June that Sweden would not be taking part in the 12th edition of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest. The Swedish withdrawal came at the back of the blue and yellow euphoria that was Måns Zelmerlow’s victory in Vienna. Ben Robertson investigates the Swedish withdrawal from Junior Eurovision 2015.
With Ireland and Australia set to make their debuts at this year’s Junior Eurovision Song Contest, Ben Robertson looks through the score tables of history to assess their chances and ponder where their votes will come from.
With all 17 songs in for JESC and excitement across National Finals, this is your ESC Insight Newsletter. This week Editor Ben Robertson argues why the home language rule in Junior Eurovision should be dead and buried.