Eurovision in Concert is now in its sixth year. The London Preview Party is moving to a bigger location. This year Riga got in on the act. It appears from afar that these Eurovision Preview Events are here to stay and will continue to grow in support. How important are all of these events in the build up to the Eurovision Song Contest next month? Ben Robertson travels to the first event of the year in Riga to ask the question – why bother?

Jouni Pihkakorpi is the President of OGAE Finland, and has been following the Contest since the days of Katie Boyle hosting in Brighton, Olivia Newton-John flying an Australian flag, and Italy throwing their toys out of the pram because of ‘Si’. So Jouni seems the perfect person to ask our traditional question… ‘Why Eurovision’?

David Elder (The Eurovisionary) and Ben Morris (Eurovision Minipop Icons) join Ewan for this week’s Juke Box Jury. The 2014 trials continue with San Marino, Greece, Armenia, and Austria.

One preview show down, two to go, as Ben Robertson returns from a Latvian evening and brings us the week;s news in the Eurovision Insight Newsletter.

In all the talk of winners, worthy songs, happy memories, and a general air of ‘life is wonderful’, John Egan wants to look somewhere else. We all know the songs that are the favourites, but what about the other end of the spectrum? What about the songs that nobody liked on the night? Is there ‘a least favourite song of all time?’

Continuing our series where we ask noted Eurovision writers and personalities the question ‘Why Eurovision’, this week we turn to the Song Contest’s Events Supervisor Sietse Bakker. A long and 21st century career path has led him to where he is today, but how did it all start and what does it have to do with Eurovision?