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  • May 15, 2025

Richard West-Soley

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.

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ESC stirs up budget debate

Finnish government plans to support the Eurovision Song Contest financially have allegedly stirred up trouble amongst some institutions, which claim

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Spain: meet the JESC hopefuls

Spanish national broadcaster TVE has published information about its five hopefuls for the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2006 in Bucharest.

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Nazar becomes Ukraine's first JESC hope

Viewers of Ukrainian broadcaster NTU's flagship Channel 1 have decided: Nazar Slyusarchuk will be the very first youngster to fly

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Sweden 2007 : The Lordi effect

Christer Björkman, stalwart of the Swedish delegation each year, has admitted that there is a large number of rock songs

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Rebeca's Swedish hope for Spain 2007

Swedish Schlager mogul, Thomas G:sson, is working on a song to submit to Spain's Eurovision Song Contest selection for Helsinki

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Greece revises JESC list

Due to the withdrawal of one of the junior competitiors in Greece, broadcaster ERT has been forced to reissue the

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Anna Book looks for Swedish comeback

She had her first taste of the glamour and glitz of Eurovision selections singing ABC in the Melodifestivalen 1986. But

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Brandsta City Släckers try again

Brandsta City Släckers, the fireman uniform-clad band from Sweden, have entered several songs for Melodifestivalen 2007, according to Swedish newspaper

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Russian and Ukrainian divas duet

It finally happened: the Russian super-diva meets with her Ukrainian counterpart, and the collision of their paths results in a

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Melodifestivalen 2007: the sort begins

By tomorrow, Swedish broadcaster SVT will have received and registered all of the submissions for Melodifestivalen 2007, and amongst them

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Buy Kate Ryan's dress!

Kate Ryan hopes to raise a fortune for a Belgian cancer charity by auctioning off the glamourous orange dress she

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Finally: JESC details from Greece

Greek broadcaster ERT has finally made its announcements regarding the selection of its own participant for the Junior Eurovision Song

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Petitions 2007: Austria's turn!

Global.Kryner, the Turbo-folk Alpine band who flew the Eurovision flag for Austria at the 2005 Eurovision Song Contest semifinal, saw

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Kate Ryan launches album

Kate Ryan proved that she feeling more alive than ever as she presented her new album to enthusiastic fans and