Radio International - The Ultimate Eurovision Experience (2025-07-30): Through the Summer 2025: FanVision 2025 Interviews (Part 2), Björn Holmgren (Melodifestivalen 2025) Interviews and more

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 

• Interview with Björn Holmgren (Melodifestivalen 2025, Heat 3 Västeros)
• Interview with Miguel Bonello (Malta Eurovision Song Contest 2025)
• FanVision Song Contest 2025: Interviews with Francisco Ribeiro (OGAE Switzerland)
• FanVision Song Contest 2025: Interview with Mikal Johansen (OGAE Denmark)
• FanVision Song Contest 2025: Interview with Claus Michael Fasting (OGAE Norway) 
• Eurovision Spotlight: Eurovision's Magical Numbers (Vol 2) with Alasdair Rendall
• Eurovision News with Javier Leal courtesy of www.escXtra.com
• Eurovision Birthday File with David Mann
• Eurovision Cover Spot with David Mann
• Eurovision Calendar with Javier Leal
• National Final Update for Junior and Eurovision Song Contest with Alain Forrotti 
• New Music Releases by Eurovision Artists 
• Your music requests

 

Björn Holmgren (Melodifestivalen 2025, Heat 3 in Västeras, Sweden)

Interview with Björn Holmgren (Melodifestivalen 2025, Heat 3):  Melodifestivalen 2025: Sweden's national final is called Melodifestivalen and is the biggest one in the world of the Eurovision Song Contest. KAJ won Melodifestivalen 2025 and represented Sweden at the Eurovision Song Contest in Basel coming 4th. Radio International went to some of the heats of Melodifestivalen and conducted interviews with the artists which all have been broadcast on the show but one. Björn Holmgren did not advance out of Heat 3 with the song "Rädda mig". You can see the Complete Coverage of Melodifestivalen 2025 - Heat 3 by clicking here. This also concludes the series of Melodifestivalen 2025 Interviews on Radio International. 

Miguel Bonello (Malta Eurovision Song Contest 2025)

Interview with Miguel Bonello (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 Miguel Bonello who took part in the Malta Eurovision Song Contest 2025. The song he competed with in Semi Final 2and is called "Breaking the Cycle" which unfortunately did not advance into the Grand Final of the Malta Eurovision Song Contest 2025. 
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.

 

 

 

Eurovision Weekend - FanVision Song Contest 2025:  The Eurovision Weekend 2025 took place in Malta from 11 - 13 July 2025 following the victory of Martina Fennech in FanVision 2024 representing Malta. The FanVision Song Contest is part of the Euroision Weekend, where artists representing different Eurovision Fan Clubs, the OGAEs) performing covers of the Eurovision Song Contest. Artists from 11 Eurovision Fan Clubs from across Europe tooks part in the contest: Austria, Denmark, EC and OGAE Germany,  Italy, Malta, Norway, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia and Switzerland. Over the next few weeks Radio International will broadcast the interviews with the participating artists and their songs. 

 

Congratulations to David Schuler who represented OGAE Germany winning the FanVision Song Contest 2025 with the song  "Tous l'Univers" which was the Swiss Eurovision Song Contest 2021 entry by Gjon's Tears coming third.  

Eurovision Weekend 2025 - The FanVision Song Contest Scoreboard

1.    (160)   OGAE Germany - David Schuler - Tous l'Univers (CH 2021)
2.    (157)   OGAE Switzerland - Francisco Ribeiro - Roi (FR 2019)
3.    (128)   OGAE Malta - Krista Sujak - It's my time (UK 2009)
4.    (118)   OGAE Poland - Baby Danka - Rim Tim Tagi Dim (CR 2024)
5.    (118)   OGAE Italy - Jessica Lipari - Tattoo (SWE 2023)
6.    (118)   OGAE Slovakia - Blazey "Bado" Fabian - Miss Kiss Kiss Bang (GE 2009)
7.    (117)   OGAE Slovenia - Zorica Prtovic - 1944 (UKR 2016)
8.    (107)   OGAE Austria - Elisabeth Sutrich - Mon Amour (FR 2024)
9.    (092)   OGAE Norway - Claus Michael Fasting - Amar Pelos Dois (POR 2017)
10.  (083)   EC Germany - Jonathan Perez Esquinas - Sugar (MOL 2021)
11.  (070)   OGAE Denmark - Mikal Johansen - Higher Ground (DEN 2018)

 

 

Radio International already broadcast the interview with the winner David for OGAE Germany and this week listen to the interviews with Francisco representing OGAE Switzerland singing "Roi" (France 2019 performed by Bilal Hassani). Then an interview with Mikal Johansen representing OGAE Denmark performing his cover of "Higher Ground" original by Rasmussen and  Claus Michael Fasting represented OGAE Norway with the winning song of the Eurovision Song Contest 2017 "Amar pelos dois" originally performed by Salvador Sobral. 

 

The Eurovision Spotlight: The Eurovision Song Contest 2025 - Eurovision's Magic Numbers:   With  the start of the Summer 2025 the Eurovision Spotlight Team Members decided to continue where the 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. The Irish Master of Speech Dermot Manning will be continuing the 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.  Javier stands in for Nick and 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 and....

 

 

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