Dr Paul Jordan takes a look at the issue of language in the songs of Eurovision, from the fourteen songs in this year’s selection and back through the history of the Song Contest.
Continuing our look at the discography of the Eurovision Song Contest in our quest to find the perfect song, Steven Newby not only takes in the songs at #50-#41, but looks at the lower reaches of the charts for the songs that didn’t make it. Who do you think will be the lowest scoring song of Eurovision history?
With a few weeks till we all travel to Eurovision, ESC Insight brings you a three part series on travelling to the coast of the Caspian Sea. First, our resident travel guru Sharleen Wright talks about best way to travel to and in Azerbaijan – from visas and currency, to hotels and transport.
Andrew Main and Donald McNaughton are on duty as they join Ewan Spence to look over Estonia, Greece, San Marino, Ukraine, Bulgaria, and Ireland, in this week’s Juke Box Jury selection from Eurovision 2012.
Announced guests at the preview aparties, a new series on the Insight website, and some rather familiar formats on TV. With music from Aziza Mustafa Zadeh.
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?














