Week 17/2019 - Eurovision Radio International - 24 April 2019 - Countdown to Eurovision 2019 (Part 3) - PODCAST AVAILABLE NOW

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Radio International - The Ultimate Eurovision Experience

Radio International - The Ultimate Eurovision Experience is broadcast live from Malta's Galaxy 105FM. The show is simulcast on Castlepoint FM in the United Kingdom and on the Facebook Page of Eurovision Radio International. Find out more details of how to tune in - click here. 

Join in this Wednesday 24 April 2019 live from 2000 - 2300pmCET for Eurovision Radio International this week.

Our new Chatroom - Chat with the Eurovision Fan Community during the live show on Wednesdays. This is how it works: Click on this link to open the Radio International Chat Room. give it a few seconds for the stream to load. Then open the music box to unmute the radio sound (which is the icon of the music box in the volume control). If after having unmuted the audio, it's still silent, simply refresh the page (F5). Start chatting and you will be assigned a funny name which you can change by clicking on it. But you can also create a user account and then you should be keeping your chat profile name. Give it a shot. 

 AT A GLANCE - ON THE SHOW THIS WEEK

• Interview with Michael Rice (United Kingdom 2019) done at Eurovision In Concert 2019
• Interview with Kobi Marimi (Israel 2019) done at the Madrid PreParty 2019
• Interview with Luca Hänni (Switzerland 2019) done at Eurovision in Concert 2019 in Amsterdam
• Interview with Lake Malawi (Czech Republic 2019) done at the London Preview Event
• Eurovision Cover Spot and The Eurovision Birthday File with David Mann
• Eurovision Spotlight Extended: Eurovision 2019 in regions THE NORTH with Chris Poppe
• Eurovision News from escXtra.com with Nathan Waddell
• Eurovision Calendar with Javier Leal
• Your music requests
• New Music Releases by Eurovision artist

COUNTDOWN TO EUROVISION 2019 - Dare to Dream: Now not long to go for the 64th Eurovision Song Contest which will be staged May 14, 16 and 18 with 41 countries competing for the trophy and the right to host Eurovision 2020. Radio International is gearing up for the biggest music event of the year and will broadcast interviews with artists and lots of music from this year's contest. In the current series of the Eurovision Spotlight the Radio International Eurovision Experts are dividing Europe and Australia in regions and will be playing the songs of this year's Eurovision Song Contest in full and in a particular ranking and giving their opinion about the songs and their chances to victory.

Now that all 41 songs have been selected the annual pre-parties and pre-view events such as London, Riga, Madrid, Moscow are taking place. Amsterdam Calling was on Friday 05 April 2019 as the pre-party to the biggest events of all EUROVISION IN CONCERT which is took place in Amsterdam's AFAS on Saturday, 06 April 2019. Hear some of the interviews Radio International did with the Eurovision Stars that performed at these events. Also a special thanks go to the colleagues of ONE Radio and TV from Malta for the great collaboration.
Photos and Videos of Eurovision In Concert and Amsterdam Calling 2019 can be viewed at this link.

The Eurovision PreParty 2019: Also taking place was The Eurovision PreParty in Madrid, Spain on 19 and 20 April 2019 with the participation of artists from this year's Eurovision Song Contest but also former Eurovision performers national and international who performed at the PreParty to the PreParty :). Photos and Videos of The Eurovision PreParty 2019 can be viewed at this link.

Luca Hänni (Switzerland 2019)

Interview with Luca Hänni (Switzerland 2019): At the recent edition of Eurovision in Concert 2019 Radio International had the pleasure to briefly chat to Luca Hänni who will be representing Switzerland at the Eurovision Song Contest 2019 in Semi Final 2 at Song 4 with the song "She got me". A special thanks to Edward Montebello from Malta's ONE TV for making this interview available which you can hear on this week's edition of the show. 

Kobi Marimi (Israel 2019)

Interview with Kobi Marimi (Israel 2019): The Eurovision 2019 Host National Israel is represented at the contest with Kobi Marimi who follows in the footsteps of Netta as Israel's entry to the Eurovision Song Contest with the song "Home". Since Israel is the host country and is with this automatically qualified for the Grand Final of the Eurovision Song Contest and will be at starting position Number 14.  Radio International met the Eurovision enthusiastic but also emotional singer at the Eurovision PreParty 2019 in Madrid last weekend and had the pleasure of an interview during a media meetings.

Interview with Lake Malawi (Czech Republic 2019):  After the huge success of the Czech Republic at the Eurovision Song Contest 2018 with Mikolas Josef reaching the best ever result for the Czech Republic with the song "Lie to me" the boy group Lake Malawi follows in the footsteps of Mikolas to represent the Czech Republic at the Eurovision Song Contest 2019 with the very radio-friendly song entitled "Friend of a Friend" in Semi Final 1 at Song 6. Radio International met the young singers at the recent edition of the London Eurovision Preview Event 2019 for an interview which you can hear on this week's edition of the show.

Michael Rice (United Kingdom 2019) with David Mann

Interview with Michael Rice (United Kingdom 2019): Like Israel, the United Kingdom is also directly qualified to compete in the Grand Final of the Eurovision Song Contest being part of the Big 5. Michael Rice will be waving the Union Jack as the UK's representative at the Eurovision Song Contest 2019 with the song  "Bigger than us" written by Sweden's entrant John Lundvig. At the recent edition of Eurovision in Concert in Amsterdam Radio International had the pleasure to chat with Michael.

Plus there will be Eurovision News, Birthday File, Cover Spot, Calendar and new releases by Eurovision artists.

Join Radio International on Wednesday, 24 April 2019 starting from 2000 - 2300 pmCET via the website or on FM. Radio International is available via different means. Visit HOW TO TUNE IN to see the details. The show will be available the website of Galaxy 105 FM and via TUNEIN, as well as on Castlepoint FM in the United Kingdom via their TUNEIN Channel and will be relayed on the Facebook Group of Eurovision Radio International    

Further details are available here:

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