Radio International - The Ultimate Eurovision Experience (2024-07-17): Eurovision Weekend 2024: We have a Winner, Interview with Luna (Poland 2024) and Klara Hammarström (Melodifestivalen 2021 & 2022)

Radio International - The Ultimate Eurovision Experience is broadcast from Malta's Radio 105FM on Tuesday evenings from 2100 - 0059 hours CET. The show is also broadcast on SWITCH Radio Europe in the United Kingdom live on Wednesday evenings from 1900 - 2300 hours CET as well as on the Facebook Page of Eurovision Radio International with an interactive chatroom.

AT A GLANCE - ON THE SHOW THIS WEEK

• Interview with Luna (Poland 2024) done at the Eurovision Weekend 2024
• Interview with Klara Hammarström (Melodifestivalen 2021 and 2022) done at Melodifestivalen 2024 Grand Final
• Eurovision Weekend 2024 in Hamburg - We have a Winner and a look back with Salman and Frank plus an interview with the Winner:  Martina Fenech from Malta
• Eurovision News with Nick van Lith from www.escXtra.com
• Eurovision Spotlight:  Eurovision's Magical Numbers with Dermot Manning
• Eurovision Birthday File with David Mann
• Eurovision Cover Spot with David Mann
• Eurovision Calendar with Javier Leal
• New Music Releases by Eurovision Artists
• Your music requests

Martina Fenech winning the FANvision Song Contest 2024 for Malta

Eurovision Weekend 2024 - We have a Winner: The Eurovision Weekend 2024 took place from 12 - 14 Jul 2024 in Hamburg with a great programme of the many national and international fans that arrived from all over Europe to take part in this event. Special guests were Luna (Poland 2024), Hera Bjoerk (Iceland 2010 and 2024) and Jendrik (Germany 2021) who each gave a concert to the many fans. The Eurovision Weekend 20204 included the FANvision Song Contest 2024 with a record of 16 countries that took part in this singing competiion. The Winner of the FANvision Song Contest 2024 is once again Malta with Martina Fenech who performed Austria's winning song of 2014 by Conchita Wurst "Rise like a Phoenix".   Congratulations Martina. Malta previously won this competition with Sebastian Calleja's cover of "Golden Boy" which was by Nadav Guedj representing Israel.

Salman and Frank, who are the Prime Organisers of the Eurovision Weekend will be joining JP once again in the studio for a look back as well as the Winning Act Martina Fenech for a look back over the weekend in Hamburg.

The Facebook Page of the Eurovision Weekend 2024 can be viewed here:  CLICK HERE

To reach the artists' profiles please visit the website of EC Germany here:  CLICK HERE

Luna at the Media Conference of the Eurovision Weekend 2024
Interview with Luna (Poland 2024): This week's interview with a Eurovision acts that as been on stage of the Eurovision Song Contest is LUNA who represented Poland at the Eurovision Song Contest 2024 with the song "The Tower" and ended up at Number 12 in Semi Final 1.
Luna was one of the special guests invited to the Eurovision Weekend 2024 in Hamburg on 13 Jul 2024. Radio International's JP had the pleasure to meet Luna for an interview after the events Media Conference. You can hear this interview on the show this week. 

 

Klara Hammarström at Media Conference at Melodifestivalen 2024

Interview with Klara Hammarström (Melodifestivalen 2021 and 2022): The Interview Team of Radio International had the pleasure to meet Klara Hammarström at the 2024 edition of Sweden's Melodifestivalen. Klara competed a few times in Sweden's Contest to select that song that represents Sweden at the Eurovision Song Contest. It was in 2021 when she made it to the Grand Final of Melodifestivalen with the song "The Beat of Broken Hearts" and in 2022 "Run to the Hills". Both songs ended up Number 6 in the Grand Final.
Listen to the interview with Klara Hammarström on the show this week and see if the will return to the competition once again.

 

Eurovision Spotlight - Eurovision's Magical Numbers: The brand new series with the new summer feature continues this week as the Radio International Colleagues will introduce something completely new that has never been on Radio International - Eurovision's Magical Numbers as Dermot Manning will continue the series.

 

Also JP will be joined by David Mann for the Eurovision Birthday File and Eurovision Coverspot.  Nick will be presenting the Eurovision News courtesy of escXtra.com. There will be a lot of the great new releases of Eurovision artists on the show as well as great Eurovision Classics. Javier will be updating us on the upcoming Eurovision events in the Eurovision Calendar and and and....

 

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