Maura Johnston is a writer and editor who teaches at Boston College. She lives in Allston Rock City with her cat, Nuno. Her favorite Eurovision song of recent years is Margaret Berger's "I Feed You My Love."
Maura Johnston has been a guest on 6 episodes.
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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 193: Controlled Grandiosity
May 2nd, 2023 | Season 6 | 37 mins 28 secs
france, germany, italy, spain, ukraine, united kingdom
Maura Johnston joins us as we wrestle with the Eurovision 2023 set of auto-qualifiers. Will Ukraine pull the double? Will the UK and Spain continue their glowups? Will we be going back to Italy? Will Germany get out of the basement? Is France gonna France?
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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.
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Episode 118: Over-Egged Pudding
May 4th, 2021 | Season 4 | 40 mins 59 secs
bulgaria, denmark, finland, latvia, portugal, switzerland
Maura Johnston joins us to discuss the last section of Eurovision 2021 Semi 2. Topics include pudding, track suits, and CVS Bangers.
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Episode 54: Madame X is Eurovision
June 4th, 2019 | Season 2 | 45 mins 7 secs
iceland, israel, italy, north macedonia, portugal
Maura Johnston joins us to discuss Madonna's Eurovision performance, Madame X, and how the Queen of Pop can navigate 2019.
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Episode 21: Putting the US in E_rovi_ion
July 4th, 2018 | Season 1 | 40 mins 9 secs
israel, north macedonia
Happy 4th of July! In honor of America's birthday, special guest Maura Johnston joins us to discuss the prospect of the US competing at Eurovision. Could we? Should we? If we somehow got an invite, who should represent whatever our sound is?