Week 11/2025 - Eurovision Radio International - 12 Mar 2025: National Finals 2025, Melodifestivalen 2025 Grand Final Interviews, News, Birthday File and Cover Spot plus much more - PODCAST AVAILABLE NOW

       

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Also listen to other Eurovision Shows:
Forest FM Eurovision Show Case (2025-03-09)
Bradley Stoke Radio - Let Me Be the One (2025-03-11)

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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, 12 Mar 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

• Melodifeativalen 2025 Grand Final Interviews with KAJ,  John Lundvik, Maja Ivarsson, Erik Segerstedt, Meira Omar, Scarlet, Saga Ludvigsson and Klara Hammarström
• Tribute to Tali Eshkoli (Eurovision and Events Producer from Israel)
• Eurovision Spotlight:  Eurovision 2025 - The National Final Season with Alasdair Rendall
• 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 National Final Season: The National Final Season for the Eurovision Song Contest is almost over this week with awaiting the release of the Eurovision entries from a couple of countries.  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 will be taking a look at the national finals and showcase the highlights every week in the Eurovision Spotlight as Alasdair Rendall continues the series looking at the countries' selection shows of the past week.

 

Melodifestivalen 2025 - The Grand Final:  "Sverige, vi har ett resultat"  On Saturday, 08 Mar 2025 the Grnd Final of  Melodifestivalen 2025 took place in the Strawberry Arena in Solna near Stockholm. At the end of the voting sequence Finnish trio KAJ were announced to be the winner of Melodifestivalen 2025 with the song "Bara Bada Bastu" and with this Sweden's representatives to the Eurovision Song Contest 2025.

Winner of Melodifvestialen 2025 and Sweden's entry to the
Eurovision Song Contest 2025
KAJ 

Melodifestivalen is the biggest National Final selection process in the world of the Eurovision Song Contest. It is the 65th edition and is produced by Swedish broadcaster SVT. 30 entries out of 2794 submitted songs made it to the shows. The 30 entries will take part in the competition across five heats. Each heat consists of six songs, with the top two songs directly qualifying for the final. Unlike in the previous edition, only the third-placing song will proceed to a final qualification round at the end of the fifth heat, which will now feature five songs instead of ten. Two songs in the final qualification will then progress to the final, which will comprise of 12 songs. The winner of the final will be determined by the usual 50/50 combination of votes from the public and an international jury. All shows were hosted by Edvin Törnblom and Kristina "Keyoo" Petrushina.

Melodifestivalen 2025 Grand Final Scoreboard

 

More details you can find over at our friends of wikipedia - click here.

Melodifestivalen 2025 Grand Final Allstar

Melodifestivalen 2025 Grand Final Interviews:  During the rehearsal for the Grand Final of Melodifestivalen 2025, JP, Marc and Salman, the Radio International Interview Team was on location in the Strawberry Arena to conduct interview with more participating artists in the 2025 edition of Melodifestivalen. This week listen to interviews with KAJ, John Lundvik, Maja Ivarsson, Erik Segerstedt, Meira Omar, Scarlet, Saga Ludvigsson and Klara Hammarström.

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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Week 12/2022 - Eurovision Radio International - 23 Mar 2022: Melodifestivalen 2022 Interviews with Robin Bengtsson, John Lundvik. Theoz, Cazzi Opeia and Faith Kekembo, and lots more - PODCAST AVAILABLE NOW

Listen this week's edition of Radio International
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Also listen to other Eurovision Shows:
Forest FM Eurovision Show Case (2022-03-20)
Bradley Stoke Radio - Let Me Be the One (2022-03-22)

Radio International - 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. The show is also broadcast live on  SWITCH Radio Yorkshire  LIVE on Wednesday evenings from 1900 - 2300 hours CET 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, 23 Mar 2022 live from 1900 - 2300pmCET live on SWITCH Radio Yorkshire  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

• Interview with John Lundvik (Sweden 2019, Melodifestivalen 2022, Number 8) 
• Interview with Robin Bengtsson (Sweden 2017, Melodifestivalen 2022, Number 11)
• Interview with  Cazzi Opeia (Melodifestivalen 2022, Number 9)
• Interview with Faith Kekembo (Melodifestivalen 2022, Number 10)
• Interview with Theoz (Melodifestivalen 2022, Number 7)
• Melodifestivalen 2022 Assessment with Robert Wahlström (Part 2)
  
• Eurovision Cover Spot and The Eurovision Birthday File with David Mann
• Eurovision Spotlight: The Eurovision 2022 in Region: This week Western Central with Chris Poppe
  
• Eurovision News from escXtra.com with Nathan Waddell (Javier Leal in for Nathan)
  
• Eurovision Calendar with Javier Leal
  
• Your music requests
• New Music Releases by Eurovision Artists
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Cornelia Jakobs (Sweden 2022) winning Melodifestivalen

Melodifestivalen 2022 Interviews with John Lundvik, Robin Bengtsson, Faith Kekembo and Theoz: Sweden's Biggest and Best TV Show Melodifestivalen ended on Saturday 12 Mar 2022 with the Grand Final after funneling down the 28 entries via four heats, two semi finals and the Grand Final. Swedish broadcaster SVT received way over 2000 songs for the 2022 edition of Melodifestivalen which on Saturday was won by Cornelia Jakobs with the song "Hold me closer" and will be representing Sweden at the Eurovision Song Contest 2022 in Semi Final 2 Second Half. The Radio International Interview Team was in Stockholm, Sweden and interviewed all the contestants of Melodifestivalen plus more.

This week on Radio International hear the interviews with former Winners of Melodifestivalen and Swedish representatives at the Eurovision Song Contest.  In total, three former winners took part in the Grand Final of Melodifestivalen, Anna Bergendahl (2010), Robin Bengtsson (2017) and John Lundvik (2019). This week Radio International is delighted to broadcast the interviews with Robin Bengtsson who with "I can't go on" took part in the Eurovision Song Contest 2017 in Kyiv, Ukraine. Two years later John Lundvik and the Mamas represented Sweden at the Eurovision Song Contest 2019 with the song "Too late for love".  Both Swedish entries reached 5th place in Eurovision and both artists shared the stage of Meldifestivalen 2022. 

 

 

Radio International had the big pleasure to meet Robin and John for an interview on their 2022 participation in Melodifestivalen 2022. Robin Bengtsson's entry was written by Swedish Singer / Songwriter Victor Crone who represented Estonia at Eurovision 2019 with the song "The Storm". The song in the running for Robin is called "Innocent Love" and reached 11th place in the Grand Final of Melodifestivalen 2022.

JP also met John Lundvik on his participation in the current contest right after the first dress rehearsal of Melodifestivalen 2022. This time John took a Swedish song into the running called "Änglavakt" that came 8th. The English version of the song is called "Lights go low".

Also Radio International had the pleasure to meet and interview Faith Kekembo during the rehearsal week of Melodiestivalen 2022 who performed the song "Freedom" coming 10th. In the interview she'll be telling us all about her musical career but also her other career. Listen to the interviews on the show this week.

Theoz and Cazzi Opeia (Melodifestivalen 2022)

Further the Interview Team of Radio International had the pleasure to interview Cazzi Opeia and Theoz together inthe Press Hall of Melodifestivalen 2022. Enjoy this funny interview with some of Sweden's finest singes. Theoz performed "Som du vill" which came 7th in the Grand Final of Melodfiestivalen 2022 and Cazzi Opeia reached Number 9 with the song "I can't get enough".

Complete overview of the results of Melodifestivalen 2022 can be viewed here - click here.

Sweden's Melodifestivalen 2022 Assessment: Last week Melodifestivalen expert Robert Wahlstroem from Gothenburg in Sweden joined JP to introduce the songs competing in the Grand Final of Melodifestivalen 2022. Robert will be joining JP again for the second part to assess the 2022 edition of Melodifestivalen.

 

The Radio International Interview Hall of Fame:

During the Interview Sessions Radio International takes photos and videos which you can find on the Radio International Interview Hall of Fame 2020 and 2021. To view the photos done during the interviews - click here - for the Radio International Hall of Fame Photo Album.

This is the Hall of Fame: Charlotte Perrelli, Linda Martin, Niamh Kavanagh, Katrina of Katrina and the Waves, Charlie McGettigan, Emmelie de Forest, Scott Fitzgerald, Eldar of Ell and Nikki, Sanna Nielsen, Lina Hedlund and Andreas Lundstedt from Alcazar, Poli Genova, Ira Losco, Jan Johansen Nicki French, Debbie Scerri, Rasmussen, Rainer from Wind, Jalisse, Maja Keuc (Amaya),Thomas Forstner, Lisa Andreas, Esther Hart, Vanilla Ninja, Maja Keuc (Amaya), Sibel Tüzün, Sidsel Ben Semmane, Monika Linkyte, Mia Dimsic (Croatia 2022), Andrea (North Macedonia 2022), Brooke Scullion (Ireland 2022), Citi Zeni (Latvia 2022), Ochman (Poland 2022) The Roop, Bilal of NorthKid, Cyan Kicks, Justs, James Newman, Senhit, Serhat, Vanessa Amarosi, Lesley Roy, Brooke, Franklin, Martina Majerle of Quartissimo, Miriam Christine, Claudia Faniello, Fabrizio Faniello, Chanel, Jordan Ravi, Viorela Moraru, Mia Negovetic, Parvani Violet Vasil, Janice Mangion, Mariette, KEiiNO, Anett Kublin (Anett and Fredi), Tess Merkel, Glen Vella, Hera Björk, Anton Ewald, Katrina Dimanta formerly of Aarzemnieki, ManuElla, Tusse, Blind Channel, Danny Saucedo, Jendrik, Tornike Kipiani, GO_A, Kurt Calleja, Rafał Brzozowski, Barbara Pravi, Fyr og Flamme, almost all artists from the Eurovision 2021 class.

Our Chatroom - Chat with the Eurovision Fan Community during the live show on Wednesdays from 1900 - 2300 hours CET. This is how it works:

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Join Radio International live on Wednesday, 23 Mar 2022 starting from 1900 - 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 on the website of Malta's RADIO105 and via TUNEIN, as well as on SWITCH Radio Yorkshire  in the United Kingdom and will be relayed on the Facebook Group of Eurovision Radio International . For the Wednesday evening live show you can join the chat room where the show will be relayed as well. For that click here. And failing that you can catch up with the show on the Radio International Podbean Channel available here. 

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THE PLAY LIST

Week 11/2018 - Eurovision Radio International - 14 Mar 2018: Melodifestivalen 2018 Recap, Eurovision 2018 - PODCAST AVAILABLE NOW

 

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This weekend saw the final national finals in Sweden, Norway and Lithuania plus the announcement of Russia's Eurovision enty.  With this week the 43 entries for the Eurovision Song Contest 2018 to take place in Lisbon, Portugal May 08, 10 and 12 are selected and the National Final Season 2018 is over. Radio International's JP was in Stockholm, Sweden interviewing all the artists taking part at Sweden's Melodifestivalen 2018. A special thanks for the great collaboration with Marc and Salman from Germany's Prinzblog. So this week's edition of Radio International will recap Melodifestivalen 2018 in our first part and JP brought back some interviews with the particpating artists. Also David Mann was at the national final of San Marino and submitted some interviews with Jessika who will be representing San Marino at Eurovision 2018. Then Dermott Manning will be taking a look at six Eurovision 2018 entries which were selected recently. So what are you waiting for. Join in this Wednesday 14 March  2018 live starting an hour later exceptionally from 2100 - 2359 pmCET for Eurovision Radio International this week.

Benjamin Ingrosso (Sweden 2018)

Jessika feat. Jennifer Brening (San Marino 2018)

John Lundvik (Melodifestivalen 2018) with JP

ON THE SHOW THIS WEEK

• Interview with Benjamin Ingrosso (Sweden 2018) done at Melodifestivalen 2018 - WATCH VIDEO
• Interview with Jessika feat Jennifer Brening (San Marino 2018)
• Interview with David Lindgren (Host of Melodifestivalen 2018) and Christer Bjoerkman (Producer of Melodifestivalen 2018 as well as Eurovision Song Contest 2018)
• Interview with John Lundvik (Melodifestivalen 2018, Number 3) - WATCH VIDEO
• Eurovision Spotlight: The National Final Season 2018 with Dermot Manning. With the results of the final Eurovision Superweekend 2018. We'll be hearing the songs that will represent their country at the Eurovision Song Contest 2018: Belgium, Estonia, Iceland, Poland, Portual and San Marino
• Eurovision Cover Spot and The Eurovision Birthday File with David Mann
• Jalisse's Localitour d'Autore Best Song of the Week
• Eurovision News from escXtra.com with Nathan Waddell
• Eurovision Quiz
• Your music requests
• New Music Releases by Eurovision artists as broadcast time permits.

HOW TO LISTEN 

Join Radio International on Wednesday, 14 March 2018 live starting an hour later exceptionally from 2100 - 2359 pmCET via the website or on FM. Radio International is available live via the radio player www.radiointernational.tv and on FM 106.8, Digital Cable Channel 916 in parts of the Netherlands, via TUNEIN and via the Facebook Group of Eurovision Radio International    

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Melodifestivalen 2018: Interview with John Lundvik

John Lundvik (Melodifestialen 2018) "My Turn" with JP

Melodifestivalen is Sweden's national televised music competition to find the best new song of the year. The winner of the competition then goes on to represent Sweden at the Eurovision Song Contest. Twenty-eight acts go through four Semi Finals and a Second Chance round before the top twelve go into the Grand Final of Melodifestivalen 2018, held once again at the Friends Arena in Solna (near Stockholm) in front of a live audience of almost 30000 spectators, plus millions of TV viewers both in Sweden and abroad.

Since 2009, Radio International has been present each year at the Melodifestivalen Grand Final rehearsals and interviews the artists, the producer and the hosts.

In this clip, we talk to John Lundvik, starting fourth in Melodifestivalen 2018 with the song "My Turn". Normally John is a song writer but this year wanted to try out to be a singer in the competition as well. Also there is a connection the Swedish Royal Family. Find out details by watching this interview.

Enjoy!
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The twelve acts that made it into the 2018 Final were:

1.
Mendez
Everyday
Melodivestifalen 2018 Final, Sweden, Song Number 1

2.
Renaida
All the feels
Melodivestifalen 2018 Final, Sweden, Song Number 2

3.
Martin Almgren
A bitter lullaby
Melodivestifalen 2018 Final, Sweden, Song Number 3

4.
John Lundvik
My turn
Melodivestifalen 2018 Final, Sweden, Song Number 4

5.
Jessica Andersson
Party voice
Melodivestifalen 2018 Final, Sweden, Song Number 5

6.
LIAMOO
Last breath
Melodivestifalen 2018 Final, Sweden, Song Number 6

7.
Samir & Viktor
Shuffla
Melodivestifalen 2018 Final, Sweden, Song Number 7

8.
Mariette
For you
Melodivestifalen 2018 Final, Sweden, Song Number 8

9.
Felix Sandman
Every single day
Melodivestifalen 2018 Final, Sweden, Song Number 9

10.
Margaret
In my cabana
Melodivestifalen 2018 Final, Sweden, Song Number 10

11.
Benjamin Ingrosso
Dance you off
Melodivestifalen 2018 Final, Sweden, Song Number 11

12.
Rolandz
Fuldans
Melodivestifalen 2018 Final, Sweden, Song Number 12

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