Europhoria - The Great, Glam & Garish History of Eurovision

After a week's delay due to Isobel's jet-setting the fabulous Euro-pair return to take you once more into the stories of the great, glam and garish from Eurovision past.

After wading through sackfulls of emails Isobel tells tale of the many scandalo's of the Sanremo Music Festival.

Once the tales have been told we have a rather special attempt at the creation of a Eurovision smash hit!

Isobel and Roland are here once again with a very special 50th official episode of the Europhoria Podcast.

It's Roland's 30th birthday and the pair are finally reunited to record in the same room in over a year. After catching up on Eurovision news and some top-notch celeb-spotting, Roland tells the story of the fabulous Sestre from Slovenia and their less-than-fabulous journey to the Eurovision Song Contest.

Roland then does his best to impress Isobel with this week's attempt at creating a Eurovision smash hit.

Isobel and Roland return for the first proper episode of the season! After catching up on news of an old classroom callout and their thoughts on the UK's decision in Eurovision You Decide, Isobel tells the tale of the very limited edition event dubbed "The Alternative Eurovision", which some say launched the career of a true pop princess.

Towards the end Roland relaunches his attempts to create a truly iconic Eurovision hit song, will this season be the one he finally does it? Tune in to find out!

We're baaaaaaaaaack! Just in time to have our judgy wudgy way with this year's Eurovision You Decide UK entrants, Isobel and Roland launch the new season of Europhoria in style.

This week the pair catch up on everything that's happened over the past few months and then look ahead to the upcoming national finals and share one or two highlights.

The new season will continue every two weeks between now and when the big show finally arrives. Prepare for stories galore in the new season of Europhoria!

Well that's it, Eurovision is over for another year, but that won't stop Isobel and Roland from relishing in great, glam and garish stories from Eurovision past.

This week Roland explains the dramatic and often tragic life of Eurovision legend Katie Boyle, before closing up the season with a collaborative song.

We will return soon!

Eurovision 2018 is less than a week away and so Isobel and Roland are here to take you on a bumper episode discussing everything you need to know about all the songs featuring in the competition this year.

Featuring special guest opinion from Matt Baker (not from Blue Peter) and Eurovision betting expert Stephen Cass. 

Episode 46 of the Europhoria Podcast and Isobel and Roland are back to discuss one of the indisputable legends of Eurovision, Lys Assia and the story of the first ever Eurovision song contest.

Then, after more than a year of waiting, something truly magical happens... listen to find out what!

Episode 45 of Europhoria and Roland and Isobel catch up with some correspondence before Roland tells his story of a Eurovision scandal in Belarus which ended up involving the peak of power.

After the story the pair commence their new game using Google's translate tool to create brand new songs from previously featured Eurovision hits. Can this be the path to create a Eurovision hit?

Episode 44 of Europhoria and Isobel and Roland settle in to discuss the issue of Microstates in the Eurovision Song Contest. Can they win? If they do are they able to host? And where will Roland and Isobel go on their tour of the countries? 

After Isobel's story the pair continue their quest to create a perfect Eurovision Song, this time using the help of Google Translate to write new lyrics.

Episode 43 of Europhoria and after catching up on (some of) the latest Eurovision news Roland tells Isobel the tale of one of the biggest transformations of a Eurovision act and consequently their entire country. 

The quest to create the perfect Eurovision song continues, and this week we're throwing some words into the mix as well. Could this be the week we finally crack it? Not likely!