Displaying items 71-80 of 113 in total of The EuroWhat? Podcast: Eurovision News & Reviews with the tag "united kingdom".
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Episode 161: Trivial Pursuits
June 14th, 2022 | Season 5 | 38 mins 14 secs
Russia, Ukraine, United Kingdom, belgium, cyprus, ireland
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.
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Episode 159: Long Time, First Time
May 24th, 2022 | Season 5 | 58 mins 44 secs
Ukraine, United Kingdom, czechia, ireland, israel, italy, montenegro, san marino, serbia
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?
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Episode 158: Slava Ukraini
May 17th, 2022 | Season 5 | 24 mins 52 secs
Sweden, Ukraine, United Kingdom, azerbaijan, georgia, germany, italy, montenegro, romania, san marino, serbia, spain, switzerland
Ukraine's Kalush Orchestra claimed the Eurovision 2022 trophy thanks to a record-breaking televote. Dave Steeves joins us to do a mini-dive into this year's Grand Final.
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Episode 157: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ — Eurovision 2022 Grand Final Preview
May 13th, 2022 | Season 5 | 36 mins 53 secs
Norway, Sweden, Ukraine, United Kingdom, armenia, australia, azerbaijan, belgium, czechia, estonia, finland, france, germany, greece, iceland, italy, lithuania, moldova, netherlands, poland, portugal, romania, serbia, spain, switzerland
We started Eurovision Week with 35 semi-finalists. 20 have moved on to join the Big 5 in Saturday's Grand Final. We take stock of our predictions from last episode and make our picks for who will win Eurovision 2022.
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Episode 155: Sommelier
May 3rd, 2022 | Season 5 | 32 mins 31 secs
United Kingdom, france, germany, italy, spain
Glen Weldon from NPR’s Pop Culture Happy Hour joins us to discuss the songs that have automatically qualified for the Eurovision 2022 Grand Final.
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Episode 148: One More Google
March 15th, 2022 | Season 5 | 45 mins 19 secs
Sweden, United Kingdom, armenia, austria, azerbaijan, belgium, cyprus, georgia, greece, iceland, israel, italy, malta, portugal, switzerland
In the last week of Eurovision Selection Season, we have a manageable number of internal selections to process and ease into the sunset with chill vibes from three national finals.
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Episode 135: Nul Points
November 23rd, 2021 | Season 5 | 44 mins 50 secs
Norway, United Kingdom, albania, austria, czechia, estonia, georgia, iceland, spain, türkiye
The dreaded Nul Points visited Rotterdam at Eurovision this year. We take a look at the sordid history of the dubious distinction.
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Episode 133: Metaverse
October 26th, 2021 | Season 5 | 32 mins 4 secs
Sweden, United Kingdom, armenia, azerbaijan, czechia, iceland, ireland, italy, lithuania, malta, montenegro, netherlands, serbia
Does breaking the fourth wall work at Eurovision? Ben takes us through a collection of songs that try to go meta.
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Episode 132: Hot 100
October 12th, 2021 | Season 5 | 38 mins 26 secs
Sweden, United Kingdom, estonia, italy, netherlands, spain
Maura Johnston guides us through how the Billboard Charts work and why Måneskin and Duncan Laurence cracked the American Top 40.
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Episode 125: The Discourse 2021
July 5th, 2021 | Season 4 | 28 mins 32 secs
Ukraine, United Kingdom, cyprus, iceland, italy, moldova, netherlands
Meredith Clark joins us to discuss some of the societal issues that Eurovision struggles to address in the fandom discourse.