Monaco entry broadcast today

by Richard West-Soley 255 views

Monaco's entry to the 51st Eurovision Song Contest in Athens will have its first public broadcast tonight on the Diggil-ej radio show in Sweden.

Diggil-ej is Swedish National Radio's weekly homage to the Eurovision Song Contest on the digital world music channel SR Sverige. Presenter Kris Boswell plays song contest classics and Melodifestivalen favourites, as well as giving regular round-ups of the latest news from Athens.

Diggil-ej can be heard on the web as well as on the radio at SR Sverige's website every Tuesday evening at 22:00 CET, repeated on Wednesday morning at 10:00 CET and Saturday afternoon at 17:00 CET.

Séverine Ferrer will sing the entry La coco-dance in French and Tahitian at the international qualifier round in Athens, Monaco's third appearance at the Eurovision Song Contest since their return after 25 years of absence.

Richard West-Soley

Senior Editor

Richard's ESC history began way back in 1992, when he discovered the contest could fuel his passion for music and languages. Since then, it's been there at every corner for him in some way or another. He joined the esctoday.com team back in 2006, and quickly developed a love for writing about the contest. In his other life, he heads the development team at the learning resources company Linguascope, and writes about all aspects of language learning on the site Polyglossic.com.