Displaying items 61-70 of 112 in total of The EuroWhat? Podcast: Eurovision News & Reviews with the tag "united kingdom".
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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 169: Livergow
October 4th, 2022 | Season 6 | 17 mins 28 secs
armenia, ukraine, united kingdom
It'll be either Liverpool or Glasgow that gets the opportunity to host Eurovision 2023 on behalf of Ukraine. We take a look at both cities as we wait for the announcement.
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Episode 168: Welcome to the United Kingdom
September 20th, 2022 | Season 6 | 34 mins 8 secs
united kingdom
The United Kingdom will be extending its record of hosting the most editions of the Eurovision Song Contest in 2023. We take a look back at several other records held by our host country in this episode.
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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 161: Trivial Pursuits
June 14th, 2022 | Season 5 | 38 mins 14 secs
belgium, cyprus, ireland, russia, ukraine, united kingdom
Professional TV quiz writer Alex McMillan joins us to talk about how to write tantalizing Eurovision trivia. We also learn about some of the differences between UK and US game show writing.