Radio International - The Ultimate Eurovision Experience (2026-03-18): Melodifestivalen 2026 more interviews with Smash Into Pieces, Sanna Nielsen, Meira Omar and Timo Räisänen, ....

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 Melodifestivalen 2026 - Interview with Sanna Nielsen (at Media Conference) Melodifestivalen 2026 - Interview with Meira Omar after first Dress Rehearsal Melodifestivalen 2026 - Interview with Smash Into Pieces (at Artist Hotel) Melodifestivalen 2026 - Interview with Timo Räisänen (at Artist Hotel) Eurovision Spotlight: Eurovision 2026 National Finals with Ross Bennett (Final in the current series) Eurovision News with Johannes Vitt courtesy of Eurovision Birthday File with David Mann Eurovision Cover Spot with David Mann Eurovision Calendar with Javier Leal New Music Releases by Eurovision Artists Your music requests Melodfestivalen 2026 - We have a Winner: The Grand Final of Melodifestivalen 2026 took place on Saturday 07 Mar 2026 in the Strawberry (Friends) Arena in Solna near Stockholm. Radio International was on location and conducted interviews with the participating acts. Visit the photo album to see great pictures and video clips from the Interviews, Rehearsals, the Live Show and the Aftershow Party. Congratulations to Felicia for winning Melodifestivalen 2026 out of 3888 entered songs into the competiton with the song "My System". With this Felicia will represent Sweden at the Eurovision Song Contest 2026 in Semi Final 1 in the First Half. Melodifestivalen 2026 - The results For the Photo Album of Melodifestivalen 2026 please - click here. Sanna Nielsen (Melodifestivalen 2026) Interview with Sanna Nielsen (Melodifestivalen 2026: It is Sanna's eights participation in Melodifestivalen having won it once in 204 with the song "Undo" which came 3rd at the Eurovision Song Contest from Copenhagen's Shipyard. In the meantime Sanna Nielsen has become mother but also has been hosting a number of years Sweden's most popular Summer Sing-a-long shows "Allsang pa Skansen". 2026 marks Sanna's 30 years in the show business in Sweden and to celebrate that she entered Melodiestivalen 2026 with the song "Waste your love" which came 10th in the Grand Final of the Swedish National Final. Smash Into Pieces (Melodifestivalen 2026) Interview with Smash Into Pieces (Melodifestivalen 2026): It was the group's third participation in Melodifestivalen 2026 with the song "Hollow" which came 4th in the competition compared to their previous two entries where they came third on both occasions with "Six Feet Under" in 2023 and in 2024 it was with "Heroes are calling". In 2026, Smash into Pieces participated in Heat 4 and made it to the Grand Final of Melodifestivalen. Radio International had the pleasure to meet the Group at their hotel for an interview which you can hear on the show this week. Meira Omar with JP (after the Melodifestivalen 2026 Grand Final) Interview with Meira Omar (Melodifestivalen 2026): One of the nicest performances in the Grand Final of Melodifestivalen 2026 is the one from Meira Omar and her dancers in the song "Dooset Daram" which came 9th in the competition. Meira already took part in Melodifestivalen 2025 with the song "Hush Hush" coming 10th and returned to the competition in 2026 into Heat 4 via the FinalKval into the Grand Final of Melodifestivalen 2026. The Team of Radio International had the pleasure to meet and interview Meira at the Media Conference which you can hear on the show this week. Timo Räisänen (Melodifestivalen 2026 - Heat 4) Interview with Timo Räisänen (Melodifestivalen 2026, Heat 4): Debuting at Melodifestivalen 2026 was Timo Räisänen with the song "Ingenting är efter oss" which ended up 4th in Heat 4. JP from Radio International had the pleasure to meet the singer together with colleague Tanja from ESCPanelen for an indepth interview in the Artist Hotel in Malmö. Find out more about Timo and his career in the interview on the show this week. The Eurovision Spotlight - The Eurovision National Final Season: The New Eurovision Year 2026 has started and with that also the National Final Season for the Eurovision Song Contest 2026 is in full swing with countries selecting their entry to the Eurovision Song Contest. 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. Until the end of March 2026 the National Final Season for Eurovision 2026 is on and Radio International's team members will be highlighting the best picks of the national finals. Ross Bennett wil be closing out the current series with taking a look at last bunch of Eurovision 2026 entries that have been released over the past seven days. In the new series of the Eurovision Spotlight as from next week the Radio International Team will be taking a look at the Eurovisionk 2026 countries in geographical reasons as tradition continues. 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 lots more. For full details of this week's Show Content and Play List - click here

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Radio International - The Ultimate Eurovision Experience (2026-03-18): Melodifestivalen 2026 more interviews with Smash Into Pieces, Sanna Nielsen, Meira Omar and Timo Räisänen, .... is an episode from Eurovision Radio International by Radio International - The Ultimate Eurovision Experience.

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This episode was published on Mar 19, 2026.

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