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ESC101 - A Eurovision History Podcast
ESC101 is a podcast which highlights and discusses the history of the Eurovision Song Contest by looking at various elements of the contest throughout the years from hosts to postcards, interval acts to artists, and more! If you're looking to learn about the obscure history of the Eurovision Song Contest and improve your ESC Trivia skills, this is the podcast for you!
Episodes
This week, we are featuring one of the hosts of the only Eurovision Song Contest hosted in a country which no longer exists! Join us as we travel to Zagreb, home of the 1990 contest hosted by two incredible people, one of whom is our featured host Helga Vlahović. Discover the story of a talented and professional host who almost walked away from the role of a lifetime, and learn how Helga earned the admiration of Croatians everywher...
This week, we are exploring the life of Karel Gott, a Czech artist who ended up representing Austria at the Eurovision Song Contest. Discover the story of a man whose career managed to outweigh the world’s largest international televised music competition, rising to massive heights of fame across both Eastern and Western Europe. Prepare yourself as we take on the enormous record of a music star who broke records all over Europe, ca...
In this week’s episode, we are hosting a special edition of the Eurovision Travel Guide. This is usually a monthly series where we explore a country that has participated in the Eurovision Song Contest. However, this week in honour of the Fourth of July, we decided to celebrate Eurovision artists and songs with connections to the United States of America. To help celebrate, we are joined by Dimitry Pompée, an Emmy-nominated TV come...
This week’s episode shines a spotlight on the least noticed person on the Eurovision stage…the conductor! Join us as we learn about Szymon Kuran, a Polish composer who served as the conductor of Iceland’s 1997 entry. Discover the story of a father’s dream of music coming to life through his son, rising through the ranks to lead multiple orchestras, and find out how a Polish musician ended up in Iceland!
This week, we are treating ourselves to a night at the ballet as we take in the very first visually recorded physical interval act debuting at the 1961 Eurovision Song Contest! Get your bow-ties and ball gowns ready as we settle in for a performance by France’s top ballet dancer and a mysterious woman!
Rencontres à Cannes is a story interpreted by Max Bozzoni, a star of the l’Opera de Paris and Tessa Beaumont, a woman whose story i...
Welcome to Life on the DQ List, where we look back at the songs that never made it onto the Eurovision stage. From songs withdrawing due to artists changing their minds to scandalous disqualifications, we’re remembering the long lost songs destined for the dustbins of history! This week, we’re looking at cancelled entries from the 2000s!
In this week’s episode, we are celebrating Pride Month by exploring the life of Eurovision’s first LGBTQ+ artist Dany Dauberson. As the contest continues to grow and develop into a space of inclusion and diversity, we’re featuring the very first step of many taken over the years as the Eurovision family grows, opening itself to everyone sharing in the spirit of love and celebration, united by music.
In this week’s episode, we are concluding our Eurovision 2025 coverage! Join us as we review the 26 acts that performed in the Grand Final and find out which acts were our favourites!
In this week’s episode, we are continuing our Eurovision 2025 coverage with part 4 of 5! Join us as we review the acts which did not make the Grand Final and find out which acts we thought should have gone through along with our thoughts on the interval acts featured in the semi-finals!
In this third bonus episode, we're concluding our three part series on giving our raw reactions to the rehearsal photos featuring the countries in the Eurovision Song Contest 2025. This episode features the entries that are auto qualifying to the grand final. Join us as we give some updates from the semi-final photos as well as revealing our thoughts on the fashion, stage designs, and other clues hidden in these official photos!
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In this second bonus episode, we're continuing our three part series on giving our raw reactions to the rehearsal photos featuring the countries in the Eurovision Song Contest 2025. This episode features the entries from Semi-Final 2. Join us as we spill the tea, revealing our thoughts on the fashion, stage designs, and other clues hidden in these official photos!
This episode may be a bit spicy towards some of the outfits and ...
In this week’s episode, we are continuing our Eurovision 2025 coverage! Join us as we review the Studio versions of the Auto-Qualifying acts and find out which ones we love and which ones flop!
In this impromptu bonus episode, we've decided to give our raw reactions to the rehearsal photos featuring the countries in the first semi final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2025. Join us as we spill the tea, revealing our thoughts on the fashion, stage designs, and other clues hidden in these official photos! This episode may be a bit spicy towards some of the outfits and staging choices, but remember, regardless of what we thin...
In this week’s episode, we are continuing our Eurovision 2025 coverage! Join us as we review the studio versions of the semi final 2 acts, and find out which acts are our favourites and which ones we think will qualify!
In this week’s episode, we are kicking off our Eurovision 2025 coverage! Join us as we review the Studio versions of the Semi-Final 1 acts and find out which 10 acts are our favourites and which ones we'd leave in the semi!
In this week’s episode, we are returning to The Eurovision Travel Guide, our monthly series where we explore a country in the Eurovision Song Contest. Join us as we explore the host country of the Eurovision Song Contest 2025, Switzerland! As one of the original 7 countries, Switzerland has one of the deepest histories out of any participating country. Gear up for Basel as we look back at Switzerland’s victories and flops!
This week’s episode features the host of the 10th Eurovision Song Contest Renata Mauro. Join us as we delve into the life of Italy’s first Eurovision host. Discover Renata’s artistic background and prepare yourself as we reveal what Renata did after hosting the contest, it’s full of paws-itivity!
It has been 5 years since the launch of the Eurovision Forever Project by the Douze Points Podcast and we are celebrating with those who ran the project, Elizabeth Allen and Jack Eaton! Join us as we look back at the last 5 years and find out if Elizabeth and Jack would ever consider doing it again or if they would revise some of their scores!
Elizabeth Allen is the host of the Douze Points Podcast and the co-host of Gabbin in the W...
This week’s episode shines a spotlight on the least noticed person on the Eurovision stage…the conductor! Join us as we learn about the last conductor of the Eurovision Song Contest Aleksandar Džambazov who conducted the entry for the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia in 1998. Discover Aleksandar’s story of determination and hard work as he directed the orchestra on the Eurovision stage for the final time.
This week’s episode opens the Eurovision Yearbook to explore the life of Anita Thallaug who represented Norway in 1963. Discover the career of an iconic Norwegian superstar who made her way onto the stage without having to win Norway’s national final, and gasp at the tragedy of the results of the 1963 contest for Norway and most of her neighbours.
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