Displaying Episode 1 - 10 of 96 in total of The EuroWhat? Podcast: Eurovision News & Reviews with the tag “iceland”.
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Episode 274: Yugoslavia 1990
July 15th, 2025 | Season 8 | 52 mins 37 secs
austria, france, iceland, ireland, italy, netherlands, portugal, spain, switzerland, united kingdom, yugoslavia
1990 was the European Year of Tourism. The map of Europe was also changing, as the fall of the Berlin Wall and the movement toward what would become the European Union started to redefine the concept of borders. We’ll be taking a look at how the 1990 Contest in Yugoslavia reflected this new era in Europe, as well as how the 2025 Contest mirrors those reflections 35 years later.
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Episode 270: Bird Noises
May 20th, 2025 | Season 8 | 21 mins 22 secs
albania, austria, estonia, iceland, israel, malta, poland, sweden, switzerland
We have a winner! Eurovision Song Contest 2025 held its Grand Final in Basel, Switzerland and named a champion after tense rounds of juries and televoting. We discuss the show, the results, and what's in store for Eurovision 2026…
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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 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 257: Disco Sauna
February 25th, 2025 | Season 8 | 35 mins 29 secs
azerbaijan, estonia, germany, iceland, italy, portugal, san marino, sweden, switzerland
Azerbaijan and Iceland have their Eurovision songs selected, Germany picked their finalists, Sweden and Portugal held heats, and San Marino is doing... something.
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Episode 256: Ren Faire
February 18th, 2025 | Season 8 | 46 mins 15 secs
armenia, estonia, germany, iceland, italy, lithuania, norway, poland, portugal, sweden, switzerland
We mark the halfway point of Eurovision Selection Season with the third Super Saturday in a row.
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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 252: Process
January 21st, 2025 | Season 8 | 22 mins 13 secs
belgium, iceland, ireland, lithuania, luxembourg, moldova, norway, poland, portugal, serbia, slovenia, switzerland, ukraine
It's another hopping Eurovision 2025 setup week with another wave of potential songs, information about Basel, the ESC hosts, ticket sales, plus auditions and previews from Moldova and Belgium.