While the National Final Season for Eurovision 2014 starts heating up, fans of the Contest in the United Kingdom are waiting to hear the BBC’s plans for Copenhagen. Does the UK need a National Final, or does the BBC’s internal selection policy offer a better package for viewers? John Kennedy O’Connor answers that question by looking back at ‘A Song for Europe’, ‘The Great British Song Contest’, and ‘Your Country Needs You’.
Ben Robertson takes a look at the semi-final draw, posts a novel prediction, and rounds up the latest happenings in our newsletter.
Two live shows, twenty qualifiers, and one very big spreadsheet. Ewan powers up his Digital Nate Silver to analyse the Eurovision Song Contest 2014 semi-final draw and makes a prediction for the likely line-up to escape from Tuesday and Thursday night.
We have a final count on countries at Eurovision 2014 (37), results from Belarus, Finland, and lithuania, and news from around the continent as National Final season continues… It’s your latest Eurovision Insight podcast, with music from Elena Sinyavskaya.
It’s the first podcast of 2014, and there’s a bundle of results, running orders, and news headlines to go through, with a musical mash-up from Dan Mei to finish.
