Winter is coming, and the nights are still drawing in, but Eurovision is here to brighten your mood. Fin Ross Russell why he really appreciates our Song Contest during November.

Liverpool is in the green, there’s a new party for the Nordics, Estonia welcomes an Italian, and more, in the latest Insight News podcast.

Talking about the banned songs of the Eurovision Song Contest leads into discussions of the Russian invasion of Georgia, the 2020/21 pro-democracy protests in Belarus, and the 2015 Colectiv fire in Romania, in the next episode of Eurovision Wars

The Eurovision Song Contest’s National Selection season is the biggest mixtape of musical discovery. Ewan Spence thinks about the importance of the Song Contest to break out of the pop-powered shackles of Spotify.

Dates for Albania’s Festivali i Kenges, tickets for Sweden’s Melodifestivalen, a nice longest from Malta, and more, in the latest Insight News podcast.

With armed conflict and terror threats rising across Europe, Ben Robertson explains why the Eurovision community is speculating on how the next Eurovision Song Contest could be the most geopolitically important in history.