The Official Eurovision Song Contest Podcast

The United Kingdom's Sam Ryder chats to host Steve Holden about performing Space Man.

At the Opening Ceremony of the Contest, Mahmood and Blanco speak about representing their home country of Italy and Greece's Amanda Georgiadi Tenfjord stops for a chat too.

Rob Lilley speaks to Croatia's Mia Dimšić and Nadir Rustamli from Azerbaijan.

And creative specialists Dan Shipton and Marvin Dietmann reveal how they put together the staging for six of this year's acts.

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It's been 10 years since Loreen won the Eurovision Song Contest with Euphoria.

In this special episode of the podcast, the singer chats to host Steve Holden to discuss her memories of that winning night in Baku when she came first for Sweden.

She talks about the iconic performance, the legacy of the song and the doors it opened for her.

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Some of the team behind Norway's Subwoolfer join host Steve Holden to talk about the Contest's infamous yellow wolves,

San Marino's Achille Lauro chats about his song Stripper and - more importantly - his mechanical bull, Roberta.

France's Alvan & Ahez discuss bringing Breton to the Eurovision stage and Rob Lilley catches up with Sheldon Riley from Australia.

And Corinne Cumming, one of Eurovision's official photographers, tells us about her amazing job behind the scenes.

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As we get a first glimpse of the Big 5, host Steve Holden catches up with Spain's Chanel.

He also chats to Serbia's Konstrakta, Malta's Emma Muscat and Israel's Michael Ben David.

Rob Lilley also hangs out with Georgia's Circus Mircus and Denmark's Reddi as Samya Hafsaoui gives her view from the Eurovision stage.

The Contest's walking encyclopedia - Sam Ross - also has more brilliant, geeky trivia.

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The rehearsals are in full swing and host Rob Lilley catches up WRS from Romania, Jérémie Makiese from Belgium and Cornelia Jakobs from Sweden.

LUM!X & Pia Maria, representing Austria, drop in for a chat too.

Rob also explores the arena's stage and finds out what puts the green in the green room.

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We've arrived in Turin!

Joining the podcast after their first rehearsals are Ronela from Albania, Kalush Orchestra from Ukraine, Intelligent Music Project from Bulgaria and Roman from Zdob și Zdub, who are representing Moldova with the Advahov Brothers.

And Stefan from Estonia drops in to have a chat too.

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The United Kingdom's 2021 act James Newman joins host Steve Holden to discuss his 'nil points' at the Contest in Rotterdam.

From the class of 2022, we're also hearing from Malik Harris from Germany, MARO from Portugal and this year's youngest competitors, LPS from Slovenia.

Plus, Christoph and Daniela from German podcast ESC Schnack talk about their country's hits and misses, and Samantha Ross from 12 Points From America has loads of Eurovision facts.

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Steve Holden and Samya Hafsaoui speaks to Eurovision's Head of Contest Twan van de Nieuwenhuijzen, the man who helps put together the shows' running order and tells acts what they can and can't do on stage.

We're also chatting to Andrea from North Macedonia, Marius Bear from Switzerland and Andromache, who's representing Cyprus.

And Natalia Anderson from Tuneful TV talks about how to run a YouTube reaction channel.

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Host Steve Holden speaks to Vladana from Montenegro and Rosa Linn from Armenia, as well as Systur from Iceland. Croatian radio presenter Monika Lelas tells us what it's like to announce her country's 12 points on the Grand Final night, and Denis and José from ESC Plus talk about the high hopes for Spain this year.

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A special episode from the Amsterdam pre-party! Hosts Steve Holden and Samya Hafsaoui hang out with S10 from the Netherlands, Brooke from Ireland, The Rasmus from Finland, Citi Zēni from Latvia, Monika Liu from Lithuania, We Are Domi from Czech Republic and Ochman from Poland. Plus, Dutch podcaster GJ Koojiman talks us through the Dutch Eurovision renaissance.

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