Episode Archive

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

  • Episode 142: Convoluted

    February 1st, 2022  |  Season 5  |  28 mins 30 secs
    estonia, iceland, ireland, israel, italy, latvia, lithuania, moldova, north macedonia, norway, slovenia, spain, sweden

    Moldova made a surprise internal selection and Spain made its Eurovision selection at last week's Benidorm Festival. We discuss these songs and look ahead to the first Super Saturday of 2022!

  • Episode 141: Sound of Beauty

    January 25th, 2022  |  Season 5  |  22 mins 33 secs
    italy, lithuania, norway, slovenia, spain

    Ben returns with his thoughts about Lithuania's Pabandom is Naujo, Norway's 2022 process, Maneskin's appearance on Saturday Night Live, and a look ahead to EMA and Benidorm.

  • Episode 140: Pivot

    January 18th, 2022  |  Season 5  |  21 mins 49 secs
    finland, iceland, italy, malta, norway, poland, portugal, sweden

    Dave Steeves returns to the program to discuss Norway's Melodi Grand Prix, a casual approach to Eurovision Selection Season, and the pivoting that is happening in response to the pandemic.

  • Episode 139: Hunker Down

    January 11th, 2022  |  Season 5  |  17 mins 32 secs
    finland, italy, latvia, lithuania, montenegro, norway, poland, romania

    This week we meet Montenegro's entrant, travel to Lithuania for Pabandom is Naujo, check out the Eurovision menus in Romania and Latvia (ooo, salad), and see how famous Maneskin's birthdays are.

  • Episode 138: Unprecedented

    January 4th, 2022  |  Season 5  |  25 mins 3 secs
    albania, italy, lithuania, montenegro, norway, spain, sweden

    It's full steam ahead to Eurovision 2022, with Albania making its (correct?) choice, a wild ESC 250 countdown, and looking forward to selection season series starting Saturday.

  • Episode 137: Class of 2021

    December 21st, 2021  |  Season 5  |  33 mins 5 secs
    albania, australia, czech republic, greece, italy, lithuania, netherlands, spain

    The Czech Republic has made their selection, a number of processes have released more details, and we check in with the Eurovision Class of 2021.

  • Episode 136: Eurovision 101

    December 7th, 2021  |  Season 5  |  36 mins 40 secs
    albania, bulgaria, czech republic, estonia, italy, norway, san marino, slovenia, sweden

    With a lot of new folks discovering Eurovision over the past year and selection season 2022 underway, we put together a tutorial to answer the question: How does Eurovision work?

  • Episode 135: Nul Points

    November 23rd, 2021  |  Season 5  |  44 mins 50 secs
    albania, austria, czech republic, estonia, georgia, iceland, norway, spain, turkey, united kingdom

    The dreaded Nul Points visited Rotterdam at Eurovision this year. We take a look at the sordid history of the dubious distinction.

  • Episode 134: Belarus

    November 9th, 2021  |  Season 5  |  32 mins 15 secs
    australia, belarus, germany, latvia, lithuania, poland, russia, ukraine

    Belarus won't be competing at Eurovision in the foreseeable future, so this seems like a good time to take an historical view of the country and its identity.

  • Episode 133: Metaverse

    October 26th, 2021  |  Season 5  |  32 mins 4 secs
    armenia, azerbaijan, czech republic, iceland, ireland, italy, lithuania, malta, montenegro, netherlands, serbia, sweden, united kingdom

    Does breaking the fourth wall work at Eurovision? Ben takes us through a collection of songs that try to go meta.

  • Episode 132: Hot 100

    October 12th, 2021  |  Season 5  |  38 mins 26 secs
    estonia, italy, netherlands, spain, sweden, united kingdom

    Maura Johnston guides us through how the Billboard Charts work and why Måneskin and Duncan Laurence cracked the American Top 40.

  • Episode 131: Viña del Mar

    September 28th, 2021  |  Season 5  |  38 mins 29 secs
    belgium, denmark, greece, iceland, ireland, italy, luxembourg, monaco, san marino, spain, switzerland

    We continue our series of music competitions with Eurovision connections by visiting Chile's Viña del Mar International Song Festival.