Displaying Episode 1 - 10 of 77 in total of The EuroWhat? Podcast: Eurovision News & Reviews with the tag “netherlands”.
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Episode 276: Lingua Franca
August 12th, 2025 | Season 8 | 37 mins 25 secs
austria, belgium, italy, netherlands, portugal, sweden, switzerland, ukraine
The Grand Final of the 2025 Eurovision Song Contest featured 21 songs with non-English lyrics, the most to appear since the language rule was abolished in 1999. In this episode, we'll explore the history of the language rule and why language diversity has returned to the Contest.
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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 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 258: LUMO
March 4th, 2025 | Season 8 | 45 mins 54 secs
australia, croatia, denmark, germany, netherlands, portugal, san marino, serbia, sweden, switzerland
We get a mix of Eurovision internal selections and national finals this week from Australia, Netherlands, Serbia, Germany, Denmark, and Croatia. We also meet a new mascot/nemesis.
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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 241: Exotic Switzerland
September 10th, 2024 | Season 8 | 41 mins 35 secs
cyprus, italy, montenegro, netherlands, sweden, switzerland
Our 8th season begins with news about Eurovision 2025 host city Basel, our first artist announcement, and a look at the history of Switzerland at the Contest.
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Episode 234: A Lotta Look
June 4th, 2024 | Season 7 | 45 mins 28 secs
armenia, azerbaijan, croatia, finland, france, italy, netherlands, poland, sweden, turkey, united kingdom
Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan from the celebrity fashion blog Go Fug Yourself join us to discuss fashion, stagewear, and all the lewks from Eurovision 2024. What designs worked, which were less successful, and will 2025 be an all-denim affair?