Radio International - The Ultimate Eurovision Experience (2025-04-16): Eurovision 2025: Meet the Eurostars - Erika Vikman (Finland), Claude (Netherlands), Miriana Conte (Malta), Sami Grand Prix 2025;

Radio International - The Ultimate Eurovision Experience is broadcast from Malta's Radio 105FM on Tuesday evenings from 2100 - 0059 hours CET. The show is broadcast live on Wednesday evenings from 1900 - 2300 hours CET on the Eurovision Radio International Mixcloud Channel as well as on the Facebook Page of Eurovision Radio International with an interactive chatroom.

 

 

AT A GLANCE - ON THE SHOW THIS WEEK

• Meet the Eurostars 2025:  Erika Vikman (Finland 2025) done at Eurovision in Concert 2025
• Meet the Eurostars 2025:  Claude (Netherlands 2025) done at Eurovision in Concert 2025
• Malta Eurovision Song Contest 2025 Winner:  Interview with Miriana Conte (Malta 2025)
• Melodifestivalen 2025 Interviews:  Malou Prytz
• Sam Grand Prix 2025:  And the Winner is....
• Eurovision Song Contest 2025: The Recaps of Semi Final 1 and 2 and the Grand Final Songs
• Eurovision Spotlight:  Eurovision 2025 in Regions:  The East with Dermot Manning
• 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

The Eurovision Spotlight - The Eurovision 2025 Land in Regions:  All countries have now selected their entry to the Eurovision Song Contest 2025 and with this marking the end of the National Final Season 2025 and the start of the Pre-Party Season where the artists promote their entries to the fans at e.g. Eurovision in Concert in Amsterdam, Madrid Pre-Party, London's Preview Event, MancHagen, The Nordic Eurovision PreParty and Eurovision Party SKG in Greece.

36 countries are taking part in the Eurovision Song Contest 2025 which will be taking place on 13 and 15 May 2024 for the two Semi Finals and the Grand Final on 17 May 2025. Radio International split the Eurovision Land 2025 into geographical regions North, East, South, West, Central, etc and each week the Radio International Eurovision experts are selecting one region playing the 2025 Eurovision entries. Dermot Manning will be continuing the series looking at the Eastern Countries' entries for this year.

 

Meet the Eurostars 2025:  The 15th edition of Eurovision in Concert took place on 05 Apr 2025 from Amsterdam's AFAS LIVE venue with acts from 30 countries that are competing at the Eurovision Song Contest 2025 to showcase their entries to the 6000 plus Eurovision Fans that arrived to watch the performances. Before the concert there was a Media Event where national and international representatives of the media could meet the artists and conduct short interviews. Radio International's Salman and JP were on location and conducted interviews with some of the artists you will hear on Radio International over the weeks to come.

 

Claude (The Netherlands 2025) at Eurovision in Concert, Amsterdam
Interview with Claude (The Netherlands 2025):  This week listen to an interview with the Musical Ambassador of The Netherlands to the Eurovision Song Contest 2025 Claude who will be representing The Netherlands at Eurovision 2025 with the song "C'est la vie" which will be performed in Semi Final 1 at Number 13 in the Eurovision Song Contest 2025.


Erika Vikman (Finland 2025)
at Eurovision in Concert 2025, Amsterdam
Interview with Erika Vikman (Finland 2025):  Also on the show this week listen to an interview Radio International's Salman did with Finland's Musical Ambassador to the Eurovision Song Contest 2025 - The Winner of UMK - Erika Vikman. The interview clip was done at the recent edition of Eurovision in Concert 2025 in Amsterdam and Erika will be representing Finland in Basel in Semi Final 2 as Song Number 16 called "Ich komme".

Miriana Conte (Malta 2025) at Malta Eurovision Song Contest 2025

 

Malta Eurovision Song Contest 2025 - Interview with Miarana Conte. 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. Radio International conducted interviews with all the contestants at the Malta Eurovision Song Contest 2025 and more. Over the next weeks you will hear these interviews on Radio International's weekly dose. Alternatively, you will find the interviews on the Radio International YouTube Channel - or check out our complete coverage of the Malta Eurovision Song Contest - click here.
This week in the spotlight is the Winner of the Malta Eurovision Song Contest:  Miriana Conte who performed "Kant" in the contest and won with that  Miriana previously took part four times in the Malta Eurovision Song Contest.

2017 - "Don't look down" (Number 16)

2018 - "Rocket" (Number 12)

2022 - "Look what you've done now" (Number 6)
2024 - "Venom" (Number 9)

The Team of Radio International met Miriana during the rehearsal week at the Malta Eurovision Song Contest 2025 and conducted an interview you can her on the show this week to find out what her song is all about.

 

 

Sami Grand Prix 2025 - And the Winner is .... : The Sámi Grand Prix is a Sámi yoik and song competition organized annually by the Sámi Music Festival organization featuring participants from all corners of the Sami Land. While the majority of its participants have been from the Norwegian side of Sápmi, Sámi from the Swedish, Finnish, and Russian sides have been increasingly participating in recent years too. More of the history of the Sami Grad Prix you can find at our colleagues of Wikipedia - click here. It all started way back in 1990 and the 2025 edition of te Sami Grand Prix takes place on Saturday, 12 Apr 2025 and can be followed on the Swedish Broadcaster SVT, Norwegian Broadcaster NRK and Finish Broadcaster YLE.

The 2025 edition of the Sami Grand Prix took place on Saturday, 12 Apr 2025 and congratiulations go ACT for winning the 36th Sami Grand Prix .

 

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 and and....

For full details of this week's Show Content and Play List - click here