Week 16/2025 - Eurovision Radio International - 16 Apr 2025: Eurovision 2025: Meet the Eurostars - Erika Vikman (Finland), Claude (Netherlands), Miriana Conte (Malta), Sami Grand Prix 2025; News, Birthday File and Cover Spot plus much more - PODCAST AVAILABLE NOW

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The Ultimate Eurovision Experience 

Radio International - The Ultimate Eurovision Experience  is broadcast from Malta's Radio 105FM on Tuesday evenings from 2100 - 0059 hours CET. Also the show is broadcast LIVE on Wednesday evenings from 1900 - 2300 hours CET including a chatroom via the Radio International Mixcloud Channel as well as on the Facebook Page of Eurovision Radio International. Find out more details of how to tune in as well as the repeats - click here.

Join in this Wednesday, 16 Apr 2025 live from 1900 - 2300 hours CET live on the Radio International Mixcloud Channel  and the Facebook Page of Eurovision Radio International for Radio International - The Ultimate Eurovision Experience with lots of good music and features related to the Eurovision Song Contest.

AT A GLANCE - ON THE SHOW THIS WEEK

• Meet the Eurostars 2025:  Erika Vikman (Finland 2025) done at Eurovision in Concert 2025
• Meet the Eurostars 2025:  Claude (Netherlands 2025) done at Eurovision in Concert 2025
• Malta Eurovision Song Contest 2025 Winner:  Interview with Miriana Conte (Malta 2025)
  
• Melodifestivalen 2025 Interviews:  Malou Prytz
  
• Sam Grand Prix 2025:  And the Winner is....
• Eurovision Song Contest 2025: The Recaps of Semi Final 1 and 2 and the Grand Final Songs
  
• Eurovision Spotlight:  Eurovision 2025 in Regions:  The East with Dermot Manning
• Eurovision News with Nick van Lith from www.escXtra.com
• 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

The Eurovision Spotlight - The Eurovision 2025 Land in Regions:  All countries have now selected their entry to the Eurovision Song Contest 2025 and with this marking the end of the National Final Season 2025 and the start of the Pre-Party Season where the artists promote their entries to the fans at e.g. Eurovision in Concert in Amsterdam, Madrid Pre-Party, London's Preview Event, MancHagen, The Nordic Eurovision PreParty and Eurovision Party SKG in Greece.

36 countries are taking part in the Eurovision Song Contest 2025 which will be taking place on 13 and 15 May 2024 for the two Semi Finals and the Grand Final on 17 May 2025. Radio International split the Eurovision Land 2025 into geographical regions North, East, South, West, Central, etc and each week the Radio International Eurovision experts are selecting one region playing the 2025 Eurovision entries. Dermot Manning will be continuing the series looking at the Eastern Countries' entries for this year.

Meet the Eurostars 2025:  The 15th edition of Eurovision in Concert took place on 05 Apr 2025 from Amsterdam's AFAS LIVE venue with acts from 30 countries that are competing at the Eurovision Song Contest 2025 to showcase their entries to the 6000 plus Eurovision Fans that arrived to watch the performances. Before the concert there was a Media Event where national and international representatives of the media could meet the artists and conduct short interviews. Radio International's Salman and JP were on location and conducted interviews with some of the artists you will hear on Radio International over the weeks to come.

Claude (The Netherlands 2025) at Eurovision in Concert, Amsterdam

Interview with Claude (The Netherlands 2025):  This week listen to an interview with the Musical Ambassador of The Netherlands to the Eurovision Song Contest 2025 Claude who will be representing The Netherlands at Eurovision 2025 with the song "C'est la vie" which will be performed in Semi Final 1 at Number 13 in the Eurovision Song Contest 2025.

Erika Vikman (Finland 2025)
at Eurovision in Concert 2025, Amsterdam

Interview with Erika Vikman (Finland 2025):  Also on the show this week listen to an interview Radio International's Salman did with Finland's Musical Ambassador to the Eurovision Song Contest 2025 - The Winner of UMK - Erika Vikman. The interview clip was done at the recent edition of Eurovision in Concert 2025 in Amsterdam and Erika will be representing Finland in Basel in Semi Final 2 as Song Number 16 called "Ich komme".

Miriana Conte (Malta 2025) at Malta Eurovision Song Contest 2025

Malta Eurovision Song Contest 2025 - Interview with Miarana Conte. On Sat. 08 Feb 2025 Miriana Conte and her song "Kant" (now "Serving")  was selected by the jury and Maltese public to represent Malta at the Eurovision Song Contetest 2025 in Basel in May. Radio International conducted interviews with all the contestants at the Malta Eurovision Song Contest 2025 and more. Over the next weeks you will hear these interviews on Radio International's weekly dose. Alternatively, you will find the interviews on the Radio International YouTube Channel - or check out our complete coverage of the Malta Eurovision Song Contest - click here.
This week in the spotlight is the Winner of the Malta Eurovision Song Contest:  Miriana Conte who performed "Kant" in the contest and won with that  Miriana previously took part four times in the Malta Eurovision Song Contest.

2017 - "Don't look down" (Number 16)

2018 - "Rocket" (Number 12)

2022 - "Look what you've done now" (Number 6)
2024 - "Venom" (Number 9)

The Team of Radio International met Miriana during the rehearsal week at the Malta Eurovision Song Contest 2025 and conducted an interview you can her on the show this week to find out what her song is all about.

 

 

 

Sami Grand Prix 2025 - And the Winner is .... : The Sámi Grand Prix is a Sámi yoik and song competition organized annually by the Sámi Music Festival organization featuring participants from all corners of the Sami Land. While the majority of its participants have been from the Norwegian side of Sápmi, Sámi from the Swedish, Finnish, and Russian sides have been increasingly participating in recent years too. More of the history of the Sami Grad Prix you can find at our colleagues of Wikipedia - click here. It all started way back in 1990 and the 2025 edition of te Sami Grand Prix takes place on Saturday, 12 Apr 2025 and can be followed on the Swedish Broadcaster SVT, Norwegian Broadcaster NRK and Finish Broadcaster YLE.

The 2025 edition of the Sami Grand Prix took place on Saturday, 12 Apr 2025 and congratiulations go ACT for winning the 36th Sami Grand Prix .

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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THE PLAY LIST

Hour 1

1.
Baby Lasagna
Rim Tim Tagi Dim
Eurovision 2024, Croatia, Number 2

2.
Isaak
Always on the Run
Eurovision 2024, Germany, Number 12

3.
Isaak
Loving Silently
NEW RELEASE: Apr 2025, Germany

4.
Kuku x Baby Lasagne
Bam Bam Bira
NEW RELEASE: Apr 2025, Croatia


Winners of the Sami Grand Prix 2025:

5.
Oscaal
Sávrrimus
Winner of the Sami Grand Prix 2025 (Yoik Category)

6.
Piera Eira feat. Máijá
Dálkkiid Čađa (Through The Weather)
Winner of the Sami Grand Prix 2025 (Contest Winner)

7.
Nataleen
The Game
Eurovision 2025, Norway, Number 2

8.
Jasmine
The Game
Si beau est le viel (French Version of "Niin kaunis on taivas")
Eurovision 1996, Finland, Number 23

9.
Eurovision Song Contest 2025 - Semi Final 1 Recap (08:48) - 13 May


Eurovision Birthday File with David Mann

10.
Katrina & The Waves
Love Shine A Light
Euovision Winner 1997, United Kingdom

11.
Loic Notett
Rhythm Inside
Eurovision 2015, Belgium, Number 4


Hour 2
Meet the Eurostars 2025 and more

1.
Madame Monsieur
Mercy
Eurovision 2018, France, Number 13

2.
Madame Monsieur
Cinéma
NEW RELEASE: Mar 2025, France

Interview with Miriana Conte (Malta 2025) done at the Malta Eurovision Song Contest 2025

3.
Miriana Conte
Look what you've done now
Malta Eurovision Song Contest 2022, Number 6

4.
Miriana Conte
Serving
Eurovision 2025, Malta, Semi Final 2 Song Number 9


Interview with Erika Vikman (Finland 2025) done at Eurovision in Concert 2025 in Amsterdam

5.
Erika Vikman
Ich komme
Eurovision 2025, Finland, Semi Final 2 Song Number 16


Interview with Claude (Netherlands 2025) done at Eurovision in Concert 2025 in Amsterdam

6.
Claude
C'est la vie
Eurovision 2025, Netherlands, Semi Final 1 Song Number 13


Interview with Malou Prytz (Melodifestivalen 2025, Sweden - Heat 3)

7.
Malou Prytz
24K Gold
Melodifestivalen 2025, Sweden, Heat 3, Number 3

8.
Eurovision Song Contest 2025 - The Grand Final Recap (4:04) - 17 May

9
Waterloo and Robinson
My little world
Eurovision 1976, Austria, Number 5
Happy 78th Birthday to Robinson on 15 Apr 2025

10.
Jacques Houdek
My Friend
Eurovision 2017, Croatia, Number 13
Happy 44th Birthday on 14 Apr 2025



Hour 3

1.
Katerine Duska
Better Love
Eurovision 2019, Greece, Number 21

2.
Katerine Duska and Eleni Foureira
Burnout
NEW RELEASE: Apr 2025, Greece


The Eurovision Coverspot with David Mann

3.
Klemen (Slakonja)
How much time do we have left
Eurovision 2025, Slovenia, Semi Final 1 Song Number 3

4.
Klemen Slakonja
Medley of Slovenian Eurovision Entries 1993 - 2019
1X Band - Tih deževen dan (1993);
Darja Švajger - Prisluhni mi (1995);
Regina - Dan najlepših sanj (1996);
Tanja Ribič - Zbudi se (1997);
Vili Resnik - Naj bogovi;
Vili Resnik - Naj bogovi slišijo;
Darja Švajger - For a thousand years (1999);
Nuša Derenda - Energy (2001);
Sestre - Samo ljubezen (2002);
Karmen Stavec - Nanana (2003);
Platin - Stay forever (2004);
Omar Naber - Stop (2005);
Anžej Dežan - Mr Nobody (2006);
Alenka Gotar - Cvet z juga (2007);
Rebeka Dremelj - Vrag naj vzame (2008);
Quartissimo in Martina Majerle - Love symphony (2009);
Ansambel Roka Žlindre in Kalamari- Narodnozabavni rock (2010);
Maja Keuc - No one (2011);
Eva Boto - Verjamem (2012);
Hannah Mancini - Straight into love (2013);
Tinkara Kovač - Round and Round (2014);
Maraaya - Here for you (2015);
ManuElla - Blue and red (2016);
Omar Naber - On my way (2017);
Lea Sirk - Hvala, ne! (2018);
Zala Kralj & Gašper Šantl - Sebi (2019))

2020 EMA Slovenian National Final, Interval Act

5.
Imaani
Where are you ?
Eurovision 1998, United Kingdom, Number 2


Eurovision Spotlight - Eurovision Land 2025 in Regions - The East with Dermot Manning

6.
Parg
Survivor
Eurovision 2025, Armenia, Semi Final 2 Song Number 5

7.
Mamagama
Run With U
Eurovision 2025, Azerbaijan, Semi Final 1 Song Number 10

8.
Mariam Shengelia
Freedom
Eurovision 2025, Georgia, Semi Final 2 Song Number 10

9.
Tautumeitas
Bur man laimi
Eurovision 2025, Latvia, Semi Final 2 Song Number 4

10.
Katarsis
Tavo Akys
Eurovision 2025, Lithuania, Semi Final 2 Song Number 8

11.
Ziferblat
Bird of Pray
Eurovision 2025, Ukraine, Semi Final 1 Song Number 5



Hour 4

1.
3Js
Je vecht nooit alleen
Eurovision 2011, The Netherlands, Semi Final 2 Number 19

2.
3JS
Dit Is Zon Dag
NEW RELEASE: Apr 2025, The Netherlands

3.
Teach In
Ding-a-dong (German version)
Eurovision Winner 1975, The Netherlands

Eurovision News with Nick from escXtra.com

4.
Demy and Theo Evan
Diafanis
NEW RELEASE: Apr 2025, Greece

5.
Demy
This Is Love
Eurovision 2017, Greece, Number 19

6.
Eurovision Song Contest 2025 - Semi Final 2 Recap (09:25) - 15 May

7.
Neea River
Volcano
NEW RELEASE: Apr 2025, Finland

8.
Neea River
Nightmares
Eurovision 2025, Finland National Final UMK, Number 5

9.
Anouk
Birds
Eurovision 2013, The Netherlands, Number 9
Happy 50th Birthday on 08 Apr 2025