Displaying Episode 31 - 40 of 97 in total of The EuroWhat? Podcast: Eurovision News & Reviews with the tag “italy”.
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Episode 173: Stiff Upper Lip
November 29th, 2022 | Season 6 | 44 mins 57 secs
albania, australia, estonia, italy, malta, ukraine, united kingdom
The United Kingdom has had a very rough couple of decades at the Eurovision Song Contest. Now that they're back in the driver's seat, we try to figure out what went wrong.
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Episode 170: Italo Disco
October 18th, 2022 | Season 6 | 43 mins 11 secs
italy, ukraine, united kingdom
Ben takes us through the history of the synth-filled vibes of the music genre known as Italo Disco. Mike's pop music diet growing up may have more in common with the style than he realized.
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Episode 167: Welcome to Ukraine
September 6th, 2022 | Season 6 | 46 mins 23 secs
armenia, italy, poland, russia, ukraine, united kingdom
Happy Eurovision New Year! As preparations for 2023 begin, we explore defending champion Ukraine's Eurovision journey over the last 20 years.
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Episode 166: Volare
August 23rd, 2022 | Season 5 | 35 mins 21 secs
armenia, israel, italy, netherlands, united kingdom
"Nel blu, dipinto di blu" (also known as "Volare") is not only one of the most well-known Eurovision songs, it's one of the most successful Italian songs ever. We dig into the song's backstory and it's continued impact on popular culture.
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Episode 165: Lugano
August 9th, 2022 | Season 5 | 26 mins 6 secs
armenia, belgium, italy, switzerland, ukraine, united kingdom
How did the first Eurovision telecast come about in 1956? We talk about coronations, cattle calls, and continental broadcasting in this week's episode.
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Episode 164: Host Country Where?
July 26th, 2022 | Season 5 | 29 mins 31 secs
armenia, france, israel, italy, netherlands, spain, ukraine, united kingdom
Now that the United Kingdom will officially host Eurovision 2023 on Ukraine's behalf, we take a look back at the other times substitutes needed to be called in to produce the Contest.
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Episode 163: Iceberg
July 12th, 2022 | Season 5 | 33 mins 34 secs
albania, estonia, georgia, germany, italy, moldova, netherlands, norway, poland, san marino, ukraine, united kingdom
With around 250 entries on the Reddit post for the 2022 Eurovision Iceberg, we take a look at some of the stories we missed (or skipped) in this year's Contest.
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Episode 162: Midsommar
June 28th, 2022 | Season 5 | 41 mins 17 secs
israel, italy, poland, san marino, sweden, ukraine, united kingdom
We're joined by @dudepoints to discuss some Swedish post-Eurovision activities: ABBA's Voyage concert experience and Martin Osterdahl's Max Anger book series.
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Episode 160: Just ASCing Questions
May 31st, 2022 | Season 5 | 49 mins 39 secs
azerbaijan, georgia, italy, montenegro, poland, romania, san marino, ukraine
We check in with the Eurovision jury shenanigans and then offer a sample of what we've been doing over on Patreon. Andy Dehnart from Reality Blurred joins us to look back on NBC’s American Song Contest experiment.
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Episode 159: Long Time, First Time
May 24th, 2022 | Season 5 | 58 mins 44 secs
czech republic, ireland, israel, italy, montenegro, san marino, serbia, ukraine, united kingdom
Bradley Dalton-Oates joins us for a deep dive of the full Eurovision experience as a first-time attendee. Did Turin do a good job of promoting brand Italy?