Eurovision Radio International - The Ultimate Eurovision Experience

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A Radio Show on the Eurovision Song Contest produced and broadcast by JP and his International Team with interviews, features, Eurovision News, Event Updates and Eurovision music. Find us on www.radiointernational.tv and also on our Facebook Group Page - Eurovision Radio International.

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50 minutes ago

Radio International - The Ultimate Eurovision Experience (2025-04-23): Tributes to Colin Berry, Clodagh Rodgers; Eurovision 2025: Meet the Eurostars: Gabry Ponte (SM), Laura Thorn

50 minutes ago

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: Laura Thorn (Luxembourg 2025) done at Eurovision in Concert 2025 in Amsterdam and at the Madrid Pre-Party
Meet the Eurostars 2025: Go-Jo (Australia 2025) done at Eurovision in Concert 2025 - postponed to next week
Meet the Eurostars 2025: Gabry Ponte (San Marino 2025) done at London PreParty 2025
Tribute to Colin Berry (Eurovision Jury Spokesperson for the United Kingdom)
Tribute to Clodagh Rogers (United Kingdom 1971) by David Mann
Eurovision Song Contest 2025: The Recaps of Semi Final 1 and 2 and the Grand Final Songs
Eurovision Spotlight: Eurovision 2025 in Regions: The South Eastern Region with Chris Poppe (Last in the current series)
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

Tribute to Colin Berry: The Eurovision Community received the sad news that on 16 Apr 2025 Colin Berry has passed away. Colin was a very familiar voice on the Eurovision Song Contest from 1977 - 2002 as being the Jury Spokesperson for the United Kingdom Jury. Further, Colin was also a radio presenter and newsreader on BBC Radio 2 and later on BBC Three Counties until 2016. He hosted various radio shows which very often also included songs from the Eurovision Song Contest. A very pleasant voice has been silenced. BBC Three Countries Radio rebroadcast Colin's last show which you will be able to listen to again - click here. Rest in Peace Colin Berry (29 Jan 1946 - 16 Apr 2025).

Colin Berry and David Mann

As a tribute to Colin Berry, Radio International will rebroadcast an interview with Colin Berry which was done by Radio International's David Mann in 2016 as part of Eurovision You Decide 2016 (The UK's National Final of the United Kingdome to the Eurovision Song Contest.

Tribute to Clodagh Rodgers (United Kingdom 1971): The Eurovision Community lost another of its members - Clodagh Rodgers who represented the United Kingdom at the Eurovision Song Contest 1971 which was won by Monaco's Severine with "Un banc, un arbre, une rue". The United Kingdom came fourth in that contest with the song "Jack in the Box". Clodagh passed away on 18 Apr 2025 at the age of 78. On the show this week, Radio International will broadcast a tribute to the singer and look back over her life and career. Rest in Peace Clodagh Rogers (05 Mar 1947 - 18 Apr 2025).

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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. Chris Poppe will be closing the series looking at the Eastern Central 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.
Also Radio International's Salman went to MancHagen and the London Eurovision Party 2025 to conduct interviews with Eurovision artists old and new. Listen out the the interviews on the shows in the weeks to come.

Laura Thorn (Luxembourg 2025) at the Madrid PreParty 2025

Interview with Laura Thorn (Luxembourg 2025): Luxembourg returned to the Eurovision Song Contest in 2024 with Tali and in the footsteps of Tali is Laura Thorn who will represent Luxembourg at the Eurovision Song Contest 2025 with the song "La Poupee monte le son" which will be in Semi Final 2 at Number 13. Radio International met Laura at Eurovision in Concert in Amsterdam but also at the Madrid PreParty 2025. Get to know the young singer in two interview clips on the show this week.

Gabry Ponte (San Marino 2025) at the London Eurovision Party 2025

Interview with Gabry Ponte (San Marino 2025): Also on the show this week listen to an interview Radio International's Salman did with San Marino's Musical Ambassador to the Eurovision Song Contest 2025 - Gabry Ponte. The interview clip was done at the recent edition of the London Eurovision Party 2025. Gabry is responsible for this huge hit of 1999 by Eiffel 65 called "Blue". At the Eurovision Song Contest Gabry, being Italian, will represent the tiny state of San Marino at the Eurovision Song Contest 2025 with the song "Tutta L'Italia" which in fact is the theme tune to Italy's San Remo Song Festival this year.

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

3 hours ago

JP’s Golden Years - Edition 241 (2025-04-19)

3 hours ago

Enjoy this two hour oldies show presented by JP from Radio International - The Ultimate Eurovision Experience. The music is based on the UK charts from across the decades from the 50s to the 2010s hosted by JP. All kinds of music is possible and also your requests are welcome.

The 241st edition of JP's Golden Years show aired on Saturday, 19 Apr 2025 from 1700 - 1900 hours CET (1600 - 1800 hours UKT) via South Norfolk Radio in the United Kingdom - click here to listen. The show airs also on other stations. Details of broadcast times and stations are below.

But also a copy of the show is available on this website www.radiointernational.tv and uploaded to the the Radio International PODCAST server with this appearing in Spotify, Itunes, and various other podcast providers. For the link to the Spotify Channel - click here

Broadcast Times of JP's Golden Years:

Saturdays
South Norfolk Radio 1700 to 1900 hours CET - click to listen
Venture Radio 0700 - 0900 hours CET

Mondays
Bradley Stoke Radio 2300 to 0100 hours CET - click to listen

Wednesdays
Venture Radio 1700 - 1900 hours CET
GoGoRadio Gibraltar 2200 - 2359 hours CET - click to listen
South Norfolk Radio (repeated) 1300 to 1500 hours CET - click to listen

Daily:
Malta's Sunshine Radio
Monday to Friday from 1000 - 1200 hours CET and repeated from 1600 - 1800 hours CET
We would be delighted to receive your request, dedications and comments via email to JP's Golden Years - click here

This week's Show Page is available here including the Play List - click here

Programme Segments are:

The Mad Half Hour to get you into the mood for the music of our life
The Best of Europop
A TV Theme Tune or Radio Theme Tune to remember
The UK Top 20 Best-Selling Singles of the second quarter of 1965 and 1995

Bessides being available on all the PODCAST Platforms, The Show is available at the following Radio Stations:

#world #jpsgoldenyears #UKTop20 #MusicCharts #GoldenOldies #1965 #AnnualChart #BestsellersOfTheYear #1995

Wednesday Apr 16, 2025

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;

Wednesday Apr 16, 2025

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

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.

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".

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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 .

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

Monday Apr 14, 2025

JP’s Golden Years - Edition 240 (2025-04-12)

Monday Apr 14, 2025

The 240th edition of JP's Golden Years show aired on Saturday, 12 Apr 2025 from 1700 - 1900 hours CET (1600 - 1800 hours UKT) via South Norfolk Radio in the United Kingdom - click here to listen. The show airs also on other stations. Details of broadcast times and stations are below.

But also a copy of the show is available on this website www.radiointernational.tv and uploaded to the the Radio International PODCAST server with this appearing in Spotify, Itunes, and various other podcast providers. For the link to the Spotify Channel - click here

Broadcast Times of JP's Golden Years:

Saturdays
South Norfolk Radio 1700 to 1900 hours CET - click to listen
Venture Radio 0700 - 0900 hours CET

Mondays
Bradley Stoke Radio 2300 to 0100 hours CET - click to listen

Wednesdays
Venture Radio 1700 - 1900 hours CET
GoGoRadio Gibraltar 2200 - 2359 hours CET - click to listen
South Norfolk Radio (repeated) 1300 to 1500 hours CET - click to listen

This week's Show Page is available here including the Play List - click here

Programme Segments are:

The Mad Half Hour to get you into the mood for the music of our life
The Best of Europop
A TV Theme Tune or Radio Theme Tune to remember
The UK Top 20 Best-Selling Singles of 2014

Bessides being available on all the PODCAST Platforms, The Show is available at the following Radio Stations:

#world #jpsgoldenyears #UKTop20 #MusicCharts #GoldenOldies #2014 #AnnualChart #BestsellersOfTheYear

Wednesday Apr 09, 2025

Radio International - The Ultimate Eurovision Experience (2025-04-09): Eurovision 2025: Meet the Eurostars - Emmy (Ireland) & Melody (Spain), Sami Grand Prix 2025; The Busker & Marc Anthony Bartolo..

Wednesday Apr 09, 2025

AT A GLANCE - ON THE SHOW THIS WEEK

Meet the Eurostars 2025: Emmy (Ireland 2025) done at MelFstWknd 2025
Meet the Eurostars 2025: Melody (Spain 2025) done at Eurovision in Concert 2025
Melodifestivalen 2025 Interviews: Ella Tiritiello
Malta Eurovision Song Contest 2025: Interview with Marc Anthono Bartolo
Interview with The Busker (Malta 2023) done at the Malta Eurovision Song Contest 2025
Sami Grand Prix 2025: Interview with the hosts of the show done at the MelFstWknd 2025
Eurovision Song Contest 2025: The Recaps of Semi Final 1 and 2 and the Grand Final Songs
Eurovision Spotlight: Eurovision 2025 in Regions: The North with Alasdair Rendall
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

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. Alasdair Rendall will be continuing the series looking at the Southern Countries' entries for this year.

Emmy (Ireland 2025)

MEET THE EUROSTARS 2025 - Interview with Emmy (Ireland 2025): During the Melodifestivalen 2025 Grand Final Week the OGAE of Sweden organised the fantastic MelFestWknd 2025 in Nalen of Stockholm where national and international media could meet the attending artists. On the guest lists among other were also Emmy who although being Norwegian will represent Ireland the Eurovision Song Contest 2025 with the song "Laika Party".

Melody (Spain 2025) at Eurovision in Concert in Amsterdam

MEET THE EUROSTARS 2025 - Interview with Melody (Spain 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 internationrepresentatives 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.

This week listen to an interview with the Spanish Ambassador to the Eurovision Song Contest 2025 - the Winner of the Beniform Fest: Melody who will be representing Spain at Eurovision 2025 with the song "Esa Diva" which is directly qualified for the Grand Final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2025 on 17 May.

Marc Anthony Bartolo
(Malta Eurovision Song Contest 2025)

Malta Eurovision Song Contest 2025 - Interview with Marc Anthony Bartolo 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 a newcomer to the Malta Eurovision Song Contest: Marc Anthony Bartolo who performed "Hideaway" in the contest ranking 11th at the end of the voting sequence in the Grand Final. Marc Anthony is no stranger to the Malta Eurovision Song Contest and has taken part various time. Listen to the interview on the show this week Radio International did during the Malta Eurovision Song Contest 2025.

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The Busker (Malta 2023)
at the Malta Eurovision Song Contest 2025 as composers

Interview with The Busker (Malta 2023) at Malta Eurovision Song Contest 2025: Radio International met two of the three members of the Maltese Group the Busker who represented Malta at the Eurovision Song Contest 2023 in Liverpool with the song "Dance our own party". Both members of the group wrote two competing songs for other Maltese artists that took part at the Malta Eurovision Song Contest 2025. JP caught up with the Busker just after the Semi Final in front of the stage. Enjoy this interview on the show this week.

Sami Grand Prix 2025: 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.

Each participant submits an original piece to be performed live in an auditorium in Kautokeino during the Sámi Easter Festival. Originally broadcast on the radio in a limited area, they have started to be shown on TV and livestreamed as well and can be watched from anywhere in the world. Listeners and viewers can cast their vote for their favorites in two categories. A combined televoting and jury result is calculated for each participant. The televotes and the jury votes each currently count for 50% of the participant's scores. The participants who receive the most votes in the song category and in the yoik category are declared the winners of these respective categories. 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.

At the recent edition of the MelFstWknd 2025, Radio International had the pleasure to meet the Host of the Sami Grand Prix 2025 for an interview about the event. Listen to that interview on the show this week.

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Hosts of the Sami Grand Prix 2025

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