The first of five shows reviewing the songs competing in the 2023 Eurovision Song Contest. This week, the team look at the songs in the first half of Semi-final 1.

The songs reviewed in this episode:

The team react to the results of this year's Junior Eurovision and discuss the potential future of the contest.

The team review the 2022 Junior Eurovision Song Contest which will take place in Yerevan, Armenia.

This month marks the 10th anniversary of the very first episode of the ESC Pulse podcast. To celebrate, the team take a look back at the first year covered live on the podcast: the 2013 Eurovision Song Contest!

We'd like to thank everyone who has either listened or have been a part of this podcast over the past ten years. Here's to ten more!

Part two of our podcast where the team are joined by Rob Urry-Tuttiett to review the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest which took place in Moscow, Russia.

Part one of our podcast where the team are joined by Rob Urry-Tuttiett to review the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest which took place in Moscow, Russia.

Non-qualifier discussion starts at 18.09

Grand Final discussion starts at 45.37

The team are joined by Ann Squires of ESC Armchair to review the 1964 Eurovision Song Contest which took place in Copenhagen, Denmark.

The UK is hosting Eurovision 2023 on behalf of Ukraine, and the team discuss the seven candidate cities in the running to host.

The team mull over the final results a couple of days after the show, decode some of the crazy semi-final outcomes and touch on some of the voting controversies in the aftermath.

The team try to predict who will win the Grand Final of Eurovision 2022, who is likely to be top 10, and who might end up last.