As the National Final season ends, the Review Season begins. Which means, at least for ESC Insight, it&#8217;s time to welcome back Juke Box Jury. We&#8217;ll be with you right up to the start of the rehearsals in Basel, as we talk about this year&#8217;s songs over seven shows. Who will pick up the hits, the misses, and maybes? Let&#8217;s find out.
<blockquote>Eurovision Insight Podcast: Juke Box Jury #1 
with Dudepoints (<a href="https://dudepoints.fun/">dudepoints.fun</a>) and Matt Baker (<a href="https://secondcherry.vision/">Second Cherry</a>).
Latvia: Bur man laimi, by Tautumeitas 
Lithuania: Tavo akys, by Katarsis . 
Luxembourg: La poupée monte le son, by Laura Thorn. 
Armenia: Survivor, by Parg. 
Finland: Ich Komme, by Erika Vikman.</blockquote>
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Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Armenia, and Finland.

In the first of seven Juke Box Jury episodes ahead of Basel 2025, Dudepoints and Matt Baker join Ewan Spence to judge the five Eurovision songs from Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Armenia, and Finland. 
 
Find out more about Eurovision Song Contest from ESC Insight at www.escinsight.com.

Eurovision Insight Podcast: Juke Box Jury 2025 #1

And with that, the National Finals are over. As we publish the latest Insight News podcast we&#8217;re waiting on France to declare its entry to the 2025 Eurovision Song Contest.
The community&#8217;s reaction is in the spotlight this week, as are the artists&#8217; reactions. Other delegations are working the PR machines to get as much love inside the community and to try and create the all-important buzz with the general public. With the submission deadline now passed, what can we expect over the next few weeks?
<blockquote>Eurovision Insight News Podcast: Waiting For Some Odd Shaped Balls
Why are we getting ready to watch some grown men chase an odd-shaped ball around a rugby field, the big deadline wooshes past us, and some surprising weekend results have energised the final lap of National Finals. Scott Reid and Ewan Spence go over this week&#8217;s talking points on the Insight News podcast.</blockquote>
Discover more about the Eurovision Song Contest and follow its journey to Basel by listening to the ESC Insight podcasts. <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/the-unofficial-eurovision/id369754923">You’ll find the show on iTunes</a>, <a href="https://www.google.com/podcasts?feed=aHR0cDovL3d3dy5lc2NpbnNpZ2h0LmNvbS9jYXRlZ29yeS9wb2RjYXN0L2ZlZWQv">Google Podcasts</a>, and <a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/4uNBt1qiXXi1qMxk58HNHe">Spotify</a>. <a href="https://escinsight.com/category/podcast/feed/">A direct RSS feed is available</a>.
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La Fleur De France

Why are we getting ready to watch some grown men chase an odd-shaped ball around a rugby field, the big deadline wooshes past us, and some surprising weekend results have energised the final lap of National Finals. Scott Reid and Ewan Spence go over this week's talking points on the Insight News podcast.

Eurovision Insight News Podcast: Waiting For Some Odd Shaped Balls

With one weekend of National Finals to go, the Eurovision playlist for Basel 2025 is almost full of the songs of every nation. Yet the global nature of the Song Contest has been brought into sharp focus with international songwriters contributing throughout the shows and cultural norms being challenged across borders.
<blockquote>Eurovision Insight News Podcast: Losing The Televote
Why there are so many Colors at Eurovision, what does it mean to lose your National Final televote, how OFCOM impacts the Song Contest, and more&#8230; Ewan Spence and Martin Bishop discuss the week&#8217;s hot topics in the Insight News podcast.</blockquote>
Discover more about the Eurovision Song Contest and follow its journey to Basel by listening to the ESC Insight podcasts. <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/the-unofficial-eurovision/id369754923">You’ll find the show on iTunes</a>, <a href="https://www.google.com/podcasts?feed=aHR0cDovL3d3dy5lc2NpbnNpZ2h0LmNvbS9jYXRlZ29yeS9wb2RjYXN0L2ZlZWQv">Google Podcasts</a>, and <a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/4uNBt1qiXXi1qMxk58HNHe">Spotify</a>. <a href="https://escinsight.com/category/podcast/feed/">A direct RSS feed is available</a>.
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To win away from home, do youneed to win at home?

This week… 
 
Why there are so many Colors  at Eurovision, what does it mean to lose your National Final televote, how OFCOM impacts the Song Contest, and more... Ewan Spence and Martin Bishop discuss the week's hot topics in the Insight News podcast. 
 
The ESC Insight team bring you the latest news from the world of the Eurovision Song Contest. Join us at www.escinsight.com.

Eurovision Insight News Podcast: Losing The Televote

<h2>Welcome To Eurovision Wars</h2>
Eurovision Wars is a series of podcasts exploring geopolitical themes as they emerged on the Eurovision Song Contest stage. You can listen to Seasons 1 and 2 <a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/54g8SpIFc1ZX0Btb9rIRo3?si=72dba2fad9f8470d">in full on Spotify</a>, covering such topics as the Russia-Ukraine War, and the long-running dispute between Azerbaijan and Armenia. For Season 3, the podcast moves to its new home at ESC Insight, and will focus on the many controversies of Eurovision 2024.
In episode six, the final episode looking at the 2024 season, Phil Doré and Ana Oppenheim, widen the scope of the podcast to look at some of the other political moments that impacted Malmö 2024, albeit without as much coverage in the mainstream press as the Israeli entry.
How are the tensions between Armenia and Azerbaijan reflected in the Contest, how close was controversy in the Serbian selection to disrupting Malmö 2024, and how should the EBU decide which countries should be represented by their national broadcaster at the Song Contest?
<h2>Our Principles Of Discussion</h2>
Before we go on, a quick reminder of the principles we are holding to in this series. Discussing Israel and Palestine is inevitably difficult and polarising, so in episode one, we introduced three ground rules to frame our podcasts.
Be willing to keep more than one thought in your head.
It can be true that the founding of the state of Israel was in response to centuries of antisemitism and the horrors of the Holocaust, and also that its founding was marked by massacres and forced displacement of the local Arab population. Likewise, it can be true that Israelis have a right not to be victims of Hamas terrorism, and Palestinians have a right not to be bombed by Israeli warplanes. These are not contradictory.
Explanation is not justification.
When we say that decades of oppression against the Palestinians contributed to October 7th, that is not to justify the atrocities of that day. Likewise, in describing those atrocities, this does not render the mass destruction inflicted by Israel on Gaza acceptable.
 If one side in a conflict commits a war crime, that doesn&#8217;t mean the other side gets a free war crime.
Because, unbelievably, that point still has to be made.
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If we are to fully understand how the Eurovision Song Contest became so controversial in 2024, then this inevitably leads to difficult conversations. But these are conversations we absolutely need to have as a community.
<a href="https://escinsight.com/category/podcast/eurovision-wars/">You can find previous Eurovision Wars episodes on ESC Insight here</a>.
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The Eurovision politics you may have missed in 2024...

In episode six, the final episode looking at the 2024 season, Phil Doré and Ana Oppenheim, widen the scope of the podcast to look at some of the other political moments that impacted Malmö 2024, albeit without as much coverage in the mainstream press as the Israeli entry. 
 
How are the tensions between Armenia and Azerbaijan reflected in the Contest, how close was controversy in the Serbian selection to disrupting Malmö 2024, and how should the EBU decide which countries should be represented by their national broadcaster at the Song Contest? 
 
Hosted by Phil More, with Ana Oppeheim. 
 
Phil Dore and the ESC Insight team bring you the latest news from the world of the Eurovision Song Contest. Join us at www.escinsight.com.

ESC Insight Presents…..Eurovision Wars: One Last Thing…

A single National Final last week, a slice of Icelandic vibes between two Super Saturdays. Of course, there was the small matter of Måns Zelmerlow in his Melodifestivalen heat to set tongues wagging in the community.
Michelle Kittens (<a href="https://thateurovisionsite.com/">That Eurovision Site</a>) joins us on the News Pod this week to discuss a roller-coaster week that moves through the Semi Finals, talks about how a TV theme tune could be heading to Basel, why Melodifestivalen is more an industry than a Eurovision selection and more&#8230;
<blockquote>Eurovision Insight News Podcast: Introverted Glam Rock
Protecting some fragile staging, the responsibility in the Melfest press room, and how to troll your bigger and more successful musical neighbour.  Ewan Spence and Michelle Kittens bounce round Europe for this week&#8217;s Song Contest podcast.
Watch Michelle&#8217;s interviews from Melfest at <a href="https://thateurovisionsite.com/">That Eurovision Site</a>.</blockquote>
Discover more about the Eurovision Song Contest and follow its journey to Basel by listening to the ESC Insight podcasts. <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/the-unofficial-eurovision/id369754923">You’ll find the show on iTunes</a>, <a href="https://www.google.com/podcasts?feed=aHR0cDovL3d3dy5lc2NpbnNpZ2h0LmNvbS9jYXRlZ29yeS9wb2RjYXN0L2ZlZWQv">Google Podcasts</a>, and <a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/4uNBt1qiXXi1qMxk58HNHe">Spotify</a>. <a href="https://escinsight.com/category/podcast/feed/">A direct RSS feed is available</a>.
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Tutta l'italia, tutta l'italia, tutta l'italia,...

Protecting some fragile staging, the responsibility in the Melfest press room, and how to troll your bigger and more successful musical neighbour.  Ewan Spence and Michelle Kittens bounce round Europe for this week's Song Contest podcast. 
 
The ESC Insight team bring you the latest news from the world of the Eurovision Song Contest. Join us at www.escinsight.com.

Eurovision Insight News Podcast: Introverted Glam Rock

Ewan Spence and the ESC Insight team keep you up to date with the Eurovision Song Contest.

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