Sietse Bakker is the Eurovision Song Contest’s Event Supervisor, but his route to that role starts at the turn of the century. Ewan catches up with him to talk through that journey in the first in-depth Insight interview of 2015.
We all know that Eurovision can sometimes be a little bit too much, and it’s ok for us to be a tourist once in a while. This week’s edition of Wren’s Wien looks at where you can go for a little bit of culture outside Vienna’s city limits.
In the concluding ‘Every Song A Story’ video essay, Ewan looks at themes and symbols that can be repeated throughout Eurovision, both on stage, and in the official promotional videos. How can a delegation increase connections and emotions with the audience in the three minutes on stage, and in the weeks beforehand?
The names of all the jury members who will make up half the scores in the Eurovision Song Contest 2015 have today been revealed. ESC Insight’s Ben Robertson looks through the long list of people to see which faces we have judging the Song Contest this year
Donald McNaughton and Andrew Main return to chat with Ewan Spence for round five of Juke Box Jury in 2015. This week the quest for a hit, a miss, or a maybe falls to Portugal, Latvia, Romania, Germany, and Greece.
Ben Robertson looks back on the latest Eurovision news and tells us about his experience producing his school’s Eurovision show over the past week.