With seven weeks until we jet off to the coast of the Caspian Sea, wouldn’t it be a nice idea to do something unique, that has never been tried before… a retrospective on the last fifty six editions of ‘Europe’s Favourite Television Show’. Relax, though, there’s a new angle that tells us something new about the Contest. Which song is closest to perfection?

Not everyone has the time and date of Eurovision burned into their memory, so just to make sure you don’t miss one of the world’s favourite TV shows, here are all the times for the semi-finals and grand final of the 2012 Contest.

Karina Westerman and Steven Newby sit in judgement over Macedonia, Hungary, Latvia, Iceland, and Slovenia’s Eurovision entries for 2012 in this week’s Juke Box Jury.

If there’s one Eurovision item in the last week that the team at ESC Insight love more than anything, it’s Pippin Barr’s web browser game Epic Sax Game.

The Epic Sax game is here! That would normally be enough, but there’s more news from the world of the Eurovision Song Contest, along with music from Alim Qasimov, in this weeks Eurovision Insight news podcast.

There is an undeniable sense of patriotism and national pride tied into the Eurovision Song Contest. But what happens if the person representing a country doesn’t quite fit into the stereotypical mold of what a Turk, a Norwegian, a Ukrainian, or any other nationality is ‘expected’ to be? Is Eurovision about bringing people of all nations together, or is it about showing off a constructed image of what a country is expected to look like?