Eurovision is heading to Burgas after the shock announcement from the EBU and host broadcaster BNT.

The Black Sea resort beat competition from Bulgarian capital Sofia to hold the 71st edition of the Eurovision Song Contest, so what do you know about where we're heading?

We hear from the EBU's Head of Communications Dave Goodman on why the city was chosen, plus we get the thoughts of Bulgarian Eurovision commentator Elena Rosberg.

Finally friend of the podcast Manuela Dimitrova from Exodo Travel returns with her tips for anyone planning to head to Burgas next year.

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Logic suggests we'll be heading to Bulgaria's capital city for next year's contest, but could a dark horse have entered the race to host Eurovision?

In this exclusive episode we meet Manuela Dimitrova, Founder of CEO of Bulgarian based Excedo Travel.

She takes us through the cities that have expressed an interest in hosting and assesses the bids fom Sofia, Plovdiv, Burgas and Varna.

We also hear how excited her nation is to be welcoming the world next May.

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After a few years of rumours and gossip, we finally have official confirmation that Canada will be joining the Eurovision Song Contest in 2027. With the North American nation debuting in next year's contest, we find out why they were welcomed into the family from Eurovision Director Martin Green.

We learn when those discussions with Canadian broadcaster CBC first began, how their EBU membership is about far more than the song contest, and what happens if they were to win the competition and therefore the right to host the following year's contest.

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In the final episode of the season we conclude the series with a look back at our best loved moments from the last 12 months.

We reminisce over the events of this Eurovision year with plenty of highs and lows on the road to Vienna.

But most importantly we celebrate you, our brilliant listeners, and the fantastic conversations we had with some our favourite people.

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Almost two weeks on from the Eurovision 2026 Grand Final, this year's UK entry joins us for a debrief after his Austrian adventure.

Speaking to us from his workshop, Sam Battle (LOOK MUM NO COMPUTER) reflects on his result, working with the BBC, and sets the record straight after that viral Green Room video. We also ask what's next for him, and who he'd like to represent the United Kingdom in Bulgaria next year?

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We're back from Vienna to look back on Bulgaria's historic first win at the Eurovision Song Contest.

We meet the people that made victorty possible including Bulgaria's Head of Delegation Boryana Gramatikova as she shares her emotions after the Grand Final, while the Creative team behind Bangaranga give us an insight into how they put together DARA's Eurovision winning performance.

Bulgarian journalist Cinan Sadula also joins us to share his joy immediately after the end of Saturday's Grand Final.

Eurovision expert and broadcaster Adrian Bradley also returns to look at what went wrong for the UK and what needs to change for next year.

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Happy Eurovision Saturday! After a crazy week in Vienna our bumper Grand Final preview podcast is here as we discuss all the main contenders for the trophy.

We chat through the surprising running order decisions with friend of the podcast Tobbe Ek, we hear from Denmark's own Søren Torpegaard Lund and manager Tim Schou on their chances of winning, while we also analyse what the running order could mean for Israel and Greece.

There's plenty of time to talk about the United Kingdom, before we then move on to hear from the man responsible for bringing Delta Goodrem to Eurovision.

And we wrap up with favourites Finland as backing singers Jepa Lambert, Heinni Ikonen, Hanna Marttila join us, plus we hear from Mr Lordi on whether he thinks Finland will emerge victorious.

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We react to the Second Semi-Final and final ten countries making up the line-up for Saturday night.

After Albania, Australia, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Malta, Norway Romania, and Ukraine qualify, we speak to the winners and losers of Thursday night.

They include celebrations following Daniel Zizka's qualification, Cypriot delight at returning to the Grand Final, and Jonas Lovv describing his emotions the moment he was announced as a Eurovision finalist. We also chat to backing vocalist Dea Norberg after Switzerland miss out on a place in Saturday's show.

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We share our view on who could qualify for the Grand Final on Thursday night fresh from watching the first dress rehearsal for the live show.

Rob and Callum talk through the songs and performances that are excelling on the Eurovision stage, while there's also some gossip about the unfortunate technical mishaps we saw during Wednesday afternoon's run through and a look ahead to LOOK MUM NO COMPUTER's first live performance.

Dale from Aussievision is with us to look ahead to Delta Goodrem's performance, while we also chat to Daniel Žižka from Czechia & Jonas Lovv from Norway.

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We now know our first 10 qualifiers for the Eurovision 2026 Grand Final as Belgium, Croatia, Finland, Greece, Israel, Lithuania, Moldova, Poland, Serbia and Sweden all progressed from Tuesday night's First Semi-Final.

We bring you the best reaction to the results recorded live in the Media Centre just moments after the live show concluded.

We're also delighted to bring you the hightlights of The Euro Trip: Live as we were joined by Andrew Cartmell and Yves Schifferle, the Heads of Delegation from the United Kingdom and Switzerland at our first live podcast recorded in front of an audience here from Vienna.

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