Eurovision Legends

It was 1997, and the Eurovision Song Contest tried out televoting for the first time, albeit on a small scale with just five countries. This made the largest difference for a, for the time, risque and...

25 Jun 202031min

Alenka Gotar is one of the most famous opera singers in Slovenia, and when the Croatian songwriter and guest on this podcast Andrej Babić approached her with a song for the Slovenian Eurovision presel...

23 Jun 202019min

Finland had never done particularly well in the Eurovision, and many attributed this to the Finnish language, which was considered harsh and foreign. However, in 1977, Monica Aspelund and the song "La...

18 Jun 202036min

There are Eurovision debutes, impressive Eurovision debutes and then there is Poland in 1994. Sure, Switzerland won the very first Eurovision in 1956 and in 2007 the winner Serbia technically made the...

16 Jun 202045min

You may not have heard of the man before, but you are certainly well aware of the songs that he has written. Andrej Babić has competed in the Eurovision with six songs for four different countries, so...

11 Jun 20201h 5min

Emil gets to speak to Kit Rolfe, lead singer of the group Belle & the Devotions, who represented the United Kingdom in 1984 with the song "Love Games". Perhaps mostly remembered for their colourful an...

9 Jun 202022min

From a war-torn Sarajevo a group of people fled to Millstreet, but some were left behind in the newly formed country of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Hear Muhamed Fazlagic speak to Emil about his song, the ...

4 Jun 202032min

Petra Frey requested, and Emil delivers. This episode features the queen, the diva, the winner, the legend, the hero, the superstar extraordinaire Charlotte Perrelli, who was the winner of the very la...

2 Jun 202046min