Runa from Timebelle is our special guest this week, chatting about Eurovision, her “bohemian” character, and the bands new music! Our triple play is home grown as the UK takes centre stage. Whilst your fan favourite choice has us feeling as light as a feather! Plus all the latest big stories in the Eurovision News…
Show Timeline
This Weeks Highlights
The United Kingdom has participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 65 times. It first took part in the second contest in 1957 and has entered every year since 1959. Along with Sweden and the Netherlands, the UK is one of only three countries with Eurovision victories in four different decades. It is one of the “Big Five” countries, along with France, Germany, Italy and Spain. They are automatically prequalified for the final each year as they are the biggest financial contributors to the European Broadcasting Union (EBU). The British national broadcaster, the BBC, broadcasts the event and has, on multiple occasions, organised different national selection processes to choose the British entry. The UK has won the contest five times, and has finished as runner-up on a record sixteen occasions. The UK has hosted the contest a record nine times, London (1960, 1963, 1968 and 1977), Edinburgh (1972), Brighton (1974), Harrogate (1982), Birmingham (1998), and Liverpool (2023).
Jessica Julie Anne Garlick is an English-born Welsh pop singer. She made her first steps into show business when she was 16. At that age, she won the Welsh final of BBC One’s talent show Star for a Night. The same year she also featured in Michael Barrymore’s My Kind of Music.
In 2001, she was among the last ten contestants on the ITV talent show Pop Idol. The BBC later invited her to sing “Come Back”, one of the competing songs in A Song for Europe, the British selection for the Eurovision Song Contest 2002. The audience selected her to represent the United Kingdom at the event in Tallinn, where she took her country to its best result since Imaani’s “Where Are You?” in 1998, finishing joint third alongside Estonia’s representative, Sahlene.
Track List
| 1 | I Do | Fabrizio Faniello | 2006 Malta |
| 2 | Once In A Lifetime | Ines | 2000 Estonia |
| 3 | I Love The Little Things | Matt Monroe | 1964 United Kingdom |
| 4 | Give A Little Love Back To The World | Emma | 1990 United Kingdom |
| 5 | Come Back | Jessica Garlick | 2002 United Kingdom |
| 6 | De La Capat | Voltaj | 2015 Romania |
| 7 | Apollo | Timebelle | 2017 Switzerland |
| 8 | Drink Beer | Timebelle | 2023 Non Contest |
| 9 | Amsterdam | Maggie Macneal | 1980 Netherlands |
| 10 | Running On Air | Nathan Trent | 2017 Austria |
| 11 | In A Moment Like This | Chanee & N’evergreen | 2010 Denmark |
