In the newsletter Ben Robertson rounds up the Eurovision news from across the continent as well as picking out the highlights of videos and articles to build up the excitement before our trips to Malta and Austria in the next season.

In the first in our series of Voting Insight’, Ben Robertson goes through the 2014 results to assess what would have been changed under the different voting systems of Eurovision over the last ten years.

With the announcement of the Barbara Dex Award for 2014, we here thought that the fashions on show at the Eurovision Song Contest deserved a little bit more catwalk than the annual vote for “OMG, what is that?!?”. So we asked Debbie O’Hare to cast an expert eye over this year’s rags to see where the riches were.

Now we come to the hard truths. The moments when broadcasters need to look in the mirror and accept responsibility. The time when the right thing to say is “that was wrong”. Looking back over the selection shows of Eurovision 2014, there were some songs that simply should have stayed in the nationals and handed the ticket to someone else.

As part of the ESC Insight radio syndication package, Ewan took a look back at this year’s Song Contest, and kicked the PED blues into touch with an energetic hour of music and chat. Are you ready to listen and get your weekend started?

Everyone remembers their first time at the Eurovision Song Contest, but not everyone who watches the Contest at home can make it out to the arena and the circus that sits alongside the world’s favourite music show. So we asked first-time attendee at the Contest Debbie O’Hare what it’s like to be devoured by Eurovision