AT A GLANCE - ON THE SHOW THIS WEEK
- Interview with the Alchemist (Malta Eurovision Song Contest 2025)
- Interview with Picked Jacks (San Marino 2023) done at MancHagen 2025
- Interview with Margret Berger (Norway 2013) done at the London Eurovision Party 2025
- Interview with Maria Sur (Sweden's Melodifestivalen 2023 and 2024) done at the London Eurovision Party 2025
- Eurovision Spotlight: Eurovision's Magic Numbers (Vol 2) with Dermot Manning - Number 5
- Eurovision News with Nick van Lith from www.escXtra.com
- Eurovision Birthday File with David Mann
- Eurovision Cover Spot with David Mann
- Eurovision Calendar with Javier Leal
- New Music Releases by Eurovision Artists
- Your music requests
Picked Jacks (San Marino 2023) at MancHagen 2025
Interview with the Picked Jacks (San Marino 2023): At the recent edition of MancHagen 2025 in view of the Eurovision Song Contest 2025 the organisers also invited acts that already were on the satge of the Eurovision Song Contest previously such as
Picked Jacks who represented San Marino at the Eurovision Song Contest 2023 in Liverpool with the song "
Like an animal" which unfortunately did not qualify for the Grand Final and remained in Semi Final 2 at Number 16. Radio International's Salman met and interviewed the group at MancHagen 2025. You can hear this interview on the show this week.
Margret Berger (Norway 2013) with Salman
at the London Eurovision Party 2025
Interview with Margret Berger (Norway 2013): It was in 2013 when Margret Berger represented Norway at the Eurovision Song Contest with the song "I feed you my love" coming 4th in Malmö, Sweden. That particular song contest was won by Emmelie de Forest from neighbouring Denmark with the song "Only Teardrops".
In the run up to the Eurovision Song Contest 2025 Margret was invited to the London Eurovision
Party 2025 where the rowing reporter of Radio International Salman had the pleasure of meeting and interviewing Margret Berger which you can hear on the show this week.
Maria Sur (Melodifestivalen 2023 and 2024)
Interview with Maria Sur (Sweden's Melodifestivalen 2023 and 2024): In 2023 a newcomer to Melodifestivalen in Sweden came from Ukraine and started her career in Sweden. Already her first Melodifestvalen entry was a success.
Maria Sur qualified from the Heat into the Grand Final where she finished 9th with the song "
Never give up". In 2024,
Maria Sur returned to Sweden's biggest music competition to select the entry to represent Sweden at the Eurovision Song Contest. The song in the running was "
When you're gone" coming 7th in the Grand Final of Melodifestivalen 2024, coming second in her Heat.
Maria Sur was invited to perform a the London Eurovision Party 2025 where the Radio International rowing reporter Salman had the pleasure to interview Maria once again and you can hear it on the show this week.
Interview with The Alchemist (Malta Eurovision Song Contest 2025): On Sat. 08 Feb 2025 Miriana Conte and her song "
Kant" (now "
Serving") was selected by the jury and Maltese public to represent Malta at the Eurovision Song Contetest 2025 in Basel in May. Miriana successfully placed Malta in the Grand Final of the Eurovision Song Contest ranking 17th at the end of the voting sequence.
Earlier on in February 2025, Radio International conducted interviews with all the contestants at the Malta Eurovision Song Contest 2025 and more.
This week, Radio International will broadcast an interview with a new act to the competition
. It is the Maltese group
The Alchemist who successfully qualified for the Grand Final of the Malta Eurovision Song Contest 2025 out of Semi Final 2 and then placed 9th with the song "
Rubble and Stone"
You can watch all the interviews Radio International did at the Malta Eurovision Song Contest 2025 by visiting the Radio International YouTube Channel - or check out our complete coverage of the Malta Eurovision Song Contest - click here
.
The Eurovision Spotlight: The Eurovision Song Contest 2025 - Eurovision's Magic Numbers: With the summer solstice marking the start of the Summer 2025 the Eurovision Spotlight Team Members decided to continue where we left off last year at the end of summer with Eurovision's Magic Numbers. Enjoy this unique way of featuring the songs of the Eurovision Song Contest on the show. Radio International's Irish Voice - Dermot Manning will be starting the new series this week.
Eurovision News, New Song Releases, Birthday File, Coverspot, Eurovision Calendar: Also JP will be joined by David Mann for the Eurovision Birthday File and Eurovision Coverspot. Nick will be presenting the Eurovision News courtesy of escXtra.com. There will be a lot of the great new releases of Eurovision artists on the show as well as great Eurovision Classics. Javier will be updating us on the upcoming Eurovision events in the Eurovision Calendar and Alain Forrotti gives us already some updates of the National Finals regarding the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2025 and the Eurovision Song Contest 2026 and more ....
