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..

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:  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

 

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. 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.

 

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.

 

Hosts of the Sami Grand Prix 2025

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....

 

 

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