Starting with the pre-determined pots, John Egan looks at some of the more interesting geographical details and their impact on Eurovision 2016 after the Semi Final Draw.
With two National Final winners selected this weekend, a draw to look forward to on Monday, and scandals across the Scandinavian scene, this is your news round-up in the ESC Insight newsletter.
Derek Sillerud concludes his look into the power of storytelling at The Eurovision Song Contest through the work of Carl Jung and his human archetypes.
Four Swedish pensioners stand in a room, the UK gets a National Final, and one more song for Stockholm is chosen. Catch up on all the Eurovision Song Contest news from the last week with Ewan Spence on the ESC Insight Podcast.
We here at ESC Insight are an opinionated bunch, and the time has come once again for us to grapple with the big questions facing the Contest. Today, we’ll look at a more personal side of the Eurovision experience: when we listen to the cavalcade of songs that are coming down the pipeline this time of year, what repels us from an entry?
Ben Robertson picks out some highlights from this year’s National Final songs, and rounds up all the news, in the latest Newsletter. Read it online, then sign up to have it sent directly to you every week!
