Episode Archive

287 episodes of The EuroWhat? Podcast: Eurovision News & Reviews since the first episode, which aired on January 9th, 2018.

  • Episode 269: Eurovision 2025 Grand Final Preview

    May 16th, 2025  |  Season 8  |  33 mins 28 secs
    albania, armenia, austria, denmark, estonia, finland, france, germany, greece, iceland, israel, italy, latvia, lithuania, luxembourg, malta, netherlands, norway, poland, portugal, san marino, spain, sweden, switzerland, ukraine, united kingdom

    Twenty songs have emerged from the Eurovision 2025 Semifinals and will join six auto-qualifiers on Saturday. We recap the shows from Tuesday and Thursday and get ready for the Grand Final.

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    Episode 268: Eurovision 2025 Semi-Final Preview

    May 12th, 2025  |  Season 8  |  44 mins 50 secs
    albania, armenia, australia, austria, azerbaijan, belgium, croatia, cyprus, czechia, denmark, estonia, finland, georgia, greece, iceland, ireland, israel, latvia, lithuania, luxembourg, malta, montenegro, netherlands, norway, poland, portugal, san marino, serbia, slovenia, sweden, switzerland, ukraine

    Eurovision Week for 2025 is upon us as well as the 37 artists gathered in Basel. We get caught up on the news leading up to this week before discussing the rehearsals and our predictions for who will advance to Saturday's Grand Final.

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    Episode 267: Seasoned

    May 6th, 2025  |  Season 8  |  59 mins 19 secs
    france, germany, italy, spain, switzerland, united kingdom

    Graphic designer and puzzler Justin Ladia returns to discuss the Eurovision 2025 auto-qualifiers: Spain, Italy, Germany, the United Kingdom, France, and host country Switzerland.

  • Episode 266: Mélange

    April 29th, 2025  |  Season 8  |  59 mins 40 secs
    australia, austria, denmark, georgia, israel, serbia, switzerland

    Ned Raggett joins us to close out our coverage of the second semi-final for Eurovision 2025. This week, we approach the entries from Australia, Serbia, Denmark, Austria, Israel, and Georgia.

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    Episode 265: Do Re Mi

    April 22nd, 2025  |  Season 8  |  41 mins 1 sec
    armenia, finland, latvia, lithuania, malta, switzerland

    Critic and educator Maura Johnston joins us again to chat about the Eurovision entries from Finland, Latvia, Malta, Lithuania, and Armenia.

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    Episode 264: Polyethylene

    April 15th, 2025  |  Season 8  |  45 mins 16 secs
    czechia, greece, ireland, luxembourg, montenegro, switzerland

    Music journalist Fred Bronson returns to start our conversations about Eurovision 2025 Semi-Final 2. We discuss Montenegro, Luxembourg, Greece, Czechia, and Ireland, plus some delightful stories about long distance friendships and phone calls.

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    Episode 263: Genre Confusion

    April 8th, 2025  |  Season 8  |  47 mins 13 secs
    croatia, cyprus, portugal, san marino, sweden, switzerland

    Culture critic Euny Hong joins us to discuss the multiple genres represented by Croatia, Sweden, San Marino, Portugal, and Cyprus at this year's Eurovision.

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    Episode 262: Huzzah

    April 1st, 2025  |  Season 8  |  59 mins 42 secs
    azerbaijan, estonia, iceland, netherlands, norway, switzerland

    Bradley Dalton-Oates from the Eurovision Song Context podcast joins us to discuss the entries from Norway, Estonia, Azerbaijan, Iceland, and the Netherlands.

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    Episode 261: Evolution

    March 25th, 2025  |  Season 8  |  39 mins 1 sec
    albania, belgium, poland, slovenia, switzerland, ukraine

    We kick off our 2025 Eurovision Review Season with #EurovisionSky poster Ted Van Houten to discuss the entries from Albania, Slovenia, Belgium, Ukraine, and Poland.

  • Episode 260: Stragglers

    March 18th, 2025  |  Season 8  |  28 mins 38 secs
    cyprus, france, georgia, israel, switzerland, united kingdom

    We reach the end of Eurovision Selection Season 2025 and share our first impressions of the internal selections from Israel, Switzerland, Cyprus, Georgia, and France.

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    Episode 259: Choose Chaos

    March 11th, 2025  |  Season 8  |  38 mins 24 secs
    austria, czechia, malta, portugal, san marino, sweden, switzerland, united kingdom

    After addressing some KANTroversy, we discuss the Eurovision selections from Austria, United Kingdom, Sweden, San Marino, and Portugal.

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    Episode 258: LUMO

    March 4th, 2025  |  Season 8  |  45 mins 54 secs
    australia, croatia, denmark, germany, netherlands, portugal, san marino, serbia, sweden, switzerland

    We get a mix of Eurovision internal selections and national finals this week from Australia, Netherlands, Serbia, Germany, Denmark, and Croatia. We also meet a new mascot/nemesis.