S3 Ep83: I Wrote A Song – Mae Muller

Poisoning my warm-up act. 

Morons and nutters in comedy audiences. 

Foreign money. 

Eurovision 2023 

Rerun: Spectacle, camp and glamour were NOT on the agenda in Lugano, Switzerland on 24th May, 1956: the inaugural Eurovision Song Contest was broadcast mostly on the radio, and featured a whistling duo as its interval act. Who had to perform twice.Voting controversy, however, was ... Show More

Hosted by Kelly Clarkson and Snoop Dogg, NBC's American Song Contest is a singing competition that tries to duplicate the Eurovision formula by having each entry represent their home state or territory. 

The Eurovision Song Contest has transformed itself from a TV show experiment to the world's largest live music event. 160 million people are expected to watch this year's competition in Sweden, as 37 countries take part. The acts participating will be hoping to become global supe ... Show More

Ukraine has won the Eurovision Song Contest with the UK’s Sam Ryder in second. 

Eurovision might best be described as “the Olympics meets American Idol”: a singing contest where countries face off for the number one spot in musical glory. It’s incredibly campy, silly, and mostly very fun. But this year’s Eurovision — which wrapped on the weekend — was dogged ... Show More

Eurovision is an annual extravaganza of European music and culture but what is its history and what role does it play? To help explore this subject Dan is joined by two men steeped in Eurviosion; TV and podcast critic Scotty Byran and Radio 1 DJ and Eurovision commentator Scott M ... Show More

Last year’s Eurovision Song Contest was a demonstration of the extraordinary political and diplomatic potency of this curious annual circus. For many of the same reasons, this year’s Eurovision will be as well. What has it meant to Ukraine to be the Eurovision champions this past ... Show More

Wir widmen uns (endlich!) dem Eurovision Song Contest, der am vergangenen Wochenende zum 67. Mal stattfand. Cari hebt den völkerverständigenden Charakter des Wettbewerbs hervor, findet die Veranstaltung aber insgesamt zu lang und zu nervig. Manuel erinnert sich zurück an besonder ... Show More