Radio International - The Ultimate Eurovision Experience (2025-11-19): Tribute to the Kessler Twins (Germany 1959), Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2025, News, Birthday File, Coverspot, and much more
Radio International - The Ultimate Eurovision Experience is broadcast from Malta's Radio 105FM on Tuesday evenings from 2100 - 0059 hours CET. The show is broadcast live on Wednesday evenings from 1900 - 2300 hours CET on the Eurovision Radio International Mixcloud Channel as well as on the Facebook Page of Eurovision Radio International with an interactive chatroom.
AT A GLANCE - ON THE SHOW THIS WEEK
The Eurovision Song Contest 2026 National Final Season
Tribute to the Kessler Twins (Germany 1959)
The Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2025 - Review and Preview
Eurovision Spotlight: Austria's History at the Eurovision Song Contest with Ross Bennett
Eurovision News with Nick van Lith from www.escXtra.com
Eurovision Birthday File with David Mann
Eurovision Cover Spot with David Mann
Eurovision Calendar with Javier Leal
National Final Update for Junior and Eurovision Song Contest with Alain Forotti
New Music Releases by Eurovision Artists
Your music requests
Alice and Ellen Kessler (Germany 1959)
at OGAE Germany Convention 2015
Tribute to The Kessler Twins (Germany 1959): The Eurovision Community received sad news on the passing away of Alice and Ellen Kessler also known as the Kessler Sisters or the Kessler Twins, at the age of 89 in Munich, Germany on 17 Nov 2025. The Kessler Twins represented Germany at the Eurovision Song Contest 1959 with the song "Heute abend wollen wir tanzen gehen" which came 9th. As a tribute, Radio International will rebroadcast the interview that JP and Eric did with the twins at the OGAE Germany Convention in January 2015 in Munich.
The Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2025: The 23rd edition of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest will be held on Saturday 13 Dec 2025 from the Olympic Palace in Tblisi in Georgia with young artists from 18 countries taking part. In the running order: Malta, Azerbaijan, Croatia, San Marino, Armenia, Ukraine, Ireland, The Netherlands, Poland, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Georgia, Cyprus, France and Albania.
Returning countries are Azerbaijan, Croatia and Montenegro while Estonia and Germany are taking a break. The Hosts of the show are David Aladashvili and Liza Tsiklauri. The show starts at 1700 hours CET. Last year's Winner was Georgia's Andria Putkaradze who won with the song "To my mom".
Radio International will be introducing the songs to the listeners over the next weeks until the week on the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2025. But also there will some highlights from past editions of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest.
The Home Composed Song Contest 2025 - The Grand Final Results Show on 29 Nov 2025: The annual music competition for non-professional musicians takes place again and is already in full swing. The public and jury have the opportunity to cast their votes as well. Visit the website of the Home Composed Song Contest 2025 - click here
The Home Composed Song Contest is in its 34th year, this is a competition for Eurovision fans who write, perform and produce their own music, who enter their own original song composition (audio only) and then also take part as a jury, to help choose the winning song. This year there are 24 songs from 12 different countries, and you can listen to the songs, and read the lyrics and bios on the official website - click here
The Radio International Team once again forms one Jury and you will be able to hear the songs also on thre next three edition sof Radio International. Well done to all participants and may the best entry win.
Last week Radio International introduced the first eight of the 24 songs of the Home Composed Song Contest 2025. This week listen to the third and final segment of eight songs from the contest.
The results will be published on 29 Nov 2025 during the Grand Final Show on the contests YouTube Channel. Click here to watch the Grand Final. The time of the show will be communicated here nearer the date.
The Eurovision Spotlight - The history of Austria at the Eurovision Song Contest: It is Autumn 2025 it also time for the traditional look at the next host country's Eurovision Song Contest entries. JJ won Eurovision 2025 and with that Austria will host the Eurovision Song Contest 2026 in the Wiener Stadthalle on 12 and 14 May 2026 for the two Semi Finals and the Grand Finale to take place on Saturday, 16 May 2026. Over the next weeks and before the National Final Season for 2026, Radio International's team members will be reviewing all the Eurovision entries from Austria. Ross Bennett will be continuing series of the Eurovision Spotlight looking at the history of Austria at the Eurovision Song Contest.
Eurovision News, New Song Releases, Birthday File, Coverspot, Eurovision Calendar:Also JP will be joined by David Mann for the Eurovision Birthday File and Eurovision Coverspot. Javier stands in for Nick and will be presenting the Eurovision News courtesy of escXtra.com. There will be a lot of the great new releases of Eurovision artists on the show as well as great Eurovision Classics. Javier will be updating us on the upcoming Eurovision events in the Eurovision Calendar and Alain Forotti gives us already some updates of the National Finals regarding the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2025 and the Eurovision Song Contest 2026 and and....
For full details of this week's Show Content and Play List - click here
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