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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Eurovision 2015: What’s Another Year – of statistics?

For statistics fans, the Eurovision Song Contest has always been a treasure trove of factoids. The show’s long history has

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Eurovision odds: Bookies in top five triumph

Throughout our series tracking this year’s Eurovision odds, we have regularly added the caveat that bookmakers often get it wrong. However,

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Eurovision odds: Russia snaps at Sweden’s heels as showdown draws close

The finalists are chosen. The running order is set. Millions are preparing to watch the final showdown tonight. As Europe

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Eurovision Odds: Now just the finalists remain

The dust has barely settled on two explosive finals full of surprises, and the bookmakers’ wheels are turning again. With

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Eurovision Odds: Semifinal surprises and a new top three

Europe has spoken, and the bookmakers have answered; with tonight’s rash of fresh finalists decided, there are some big changes

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Eurovision Odds: Climbers and stallers pre-live show

As the performers in Vienna stand on the watershed between rehearsal and the real thing, we take another look at

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Eurovision Odds: the finalists’ turn to shake them up

Rehearsals can always throw up surprises, and today, it was France that sent ripples through the bookmakers’ confidence ratings as

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Eurovision Odds Day 5: Shuffling, but stalemate at the top

A fifth day in Vienna sees a bumper crop of first semfinalist rehearsals, and esctoday.com once again turns to the

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Eurovision Odds Day 4: Surprise jumpers amidst the static

Day four of rehearsals, and all of the semifinalists have now had a chance to try out the stage in

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Eurovision Odds: Taking stock of the favourites, day 3

As the performers from the first semifinal relax after their first days on stage, today saw the turn of the

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Eurovision Odds: Bookies’ Movers and Shakers, Day 2

A second day of rehearsals in Vienna has seen some movement in the bookies’ favourites, as fans and punters gather

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Eurovision Odds: Bookies’ Roundup, Day 1

Rehearsal fortnight is something of a watershed for Eurovision fans and punters alike; it’s a chance to take stock of

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Eurovision 2015: You bet! Pre-rehearsal odds roundup

With barely two weeks to go before the final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2015, fans have been busy making

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Eurovision: Get ready for Big Poll 2015!

May 1st sees the launch of what has become an exciting annual Eurovision Song Contest tradition – esctoday.com’s famous Big Poll!