It’s been a long and engaging season, but tonight is the night where it all gets very serious. The first Semi Final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2022. With seventeen songs set to be whittled down to ten qualifiers, it’s time for our Spotters Guide to take you through the show.

Fin Ross and John take us through life in the Eurovision Press Centre, the excitement in the venue, and preview the first Semi Final, in today’s daily podcast from backstage at Turin 2022.

What happened over the last week, some sightseeing around Turin, and what we are looking forward to over the next few days. Fin Ross Russell and John Lucas gather our thoughts before the final sprint.

Turin is throwing a full eight evening schedule at Eurovision Village, ten EuroClubs and a glamourous venue for the Opening Ceremony. Yet while the city is covered in Eurovision regalia the Song Contest in Italy is far from a carbon copy of shows from before the pandemic. Ben Robertson explains why.

Elaine O’Neill meets the performers taking to the stage in Turin for Eurovision 2022 to find out what they were doing before the Song Contest called, and what’s planned after the Grand Final, in the latest Insight podcast.

As Italy prepare to host the 2022 Eurovision song Contest, their neighbours in San Marino are about to field their 12th entry. John Lucas pays a road-trip to the Most Serene Republic to find out why they became the little microstate that could…