Displaying Episode 1 - 10 of 75 in total of The EuroWhat? Podcast: Eurovision News & Reviews with the tag “finland”.
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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 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 255: ('Singing')
February 11th, 2025 | Season 8 | 50 mins 55 secs
armenia, azerbaijan, czechia, denmark, estonia, finland, germany, iceland, ireland, latvia, lithuania, malta, norway, poland, sweden, switzerland, ukraine
It's the biggest weekend of Eurovision 2025 so far with Ireland, Ukraine, Finland, Latvia, and Malta making picks while several other countries' processes continued. Do-re-mi-fa-serving exhausted, but we shall persevere!
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Episode 254: Super
February 4th, 2025 | Season 8 | 49 mins 13 secs
austria, azerbaijan, belgium, czechia, denmark, finland, france, greece, iceland, ireland, latvia, lithuania, malta, san marino, slovenia, spain, sweden, switzerland, ukraine
Eurovision started to get structure this week thanks to the semi-final allocation draw, the first wave of ticket sales, and selections from Greece, Slovenia, Belgium, and Spain. Sweden kicked off Melfest, Lithuania got competitive, and Latvia picked finalists. This was the easy Super Saturday...
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Episode 253: Vox Lux
January 28th, 2025 | Season 8 | 30 mins 44 secs
austria, belgium, croatia, finland, greece, ireland, israel, latvia, lithuania, luxembourg, moldova, norway, portugal, serbia, slovenia, spain, sweden, switzerland, ukraine
Luxembourg selected their Eurovision representative at the end of a surprisingly busy week. Moldova has withdrawn, several countries released potential songs, and Finland's UMK faces a significant shakeup.
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Episode 251: Wading
January 14th, 2025 | Season 8 | 24 mins 8 secs
belgium, croatia, finland, greece, iceland, lithuania, malta, norway, poland, switzerland
We ease into the waters of the Eurovision TV season, thanks to the first heat of Lithuania's Eurovizija.LT. We also check in on the candidate song drops for the processes happening in Finland, Malta, Croatia, and Greece.
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Episode 250: Loaded with Energy
January 7th, 2025 | Season 8 | 44 mins 15 secs
albania, estonia, finland, iceland, ireland, lithuania, moldova, netherlands, san marino, spain, sweden, switzerland, ukraine
Before 2025 gets into full swing, we catch up on Eurovision news from the end of 2024. We have designs! We have fonts! We have an entry where we're not not saying Tirana 2026! Plus, we go deep on the results from the ESC 250 Countdown.
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Episode 249: Pew Pew Pew
December 30th, 2024 | Season 8 | 59 mins 34 secs
austria, belgium, croatia, cyprus, denmark, estonia, finland, france, germany, iceland, ireland, israel, latvia, malta, netherlands, north macedonia, norway, romania, russia, spain, sweden, switzerland, turkey, united kingdom
As we head into 2025, we jump back 25 years to watch the 2000 Eurovision Song Contest. How has the competition, fashion, and pop music changed in the last quarter-century(!)?
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Episode 248: Three-Card Montesong
December 17th, 2024 | Season 8 | 47 mins 38 secs
albania, armenia, belgium, croatia, czechia, estonia, finland, greece, iceland, italy, latvia, lithuania, luxembourg, malta, melfest, moldova, montenegro, norway, poland, serbia, slovenia, spain, switzerland
As we rush to get out of 2024 we're getting details from just about every country participating in Eurovision 2025. We recap last month's Montesong from Montenegro, learn a bit about Czechia's artist, and start adding all the dates to our calendar.