Christer Bjorkman speaks to esctoday.com

by Richard West-Soley 60 views

esctoday.com's Russell Davies interviewed Swedish Head of Delegation Christer Bjorkman, who has recently been elected to the Eurovision Song Contest Reference Group.

In this frank discussion, Christer gives his opinions on the Swedish qualification of Malena Ernman, his views on the Russian organisation of the show and technical issues affecting the presentation, and how he wishes to increase the maximum number of performers to eight on the Eurovision stage.

Watch the interview in full below:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_OOhv-VqhM

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.