It’s just eight days until the final, but the Eurovision Song Contest 2009 coverage starts here. This year, for the first time, The Stage will have a correspondent at the contest itself. Ewan Spence will be taking a look behind the scenes, following the progress of the semi-finalists and keeping an eye on UK entry Jade Ewen and her mentor Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber.
Of course, this is the first year that Terry Wogan will not be on ceremonial duties in the UK commentary booth. There’s more to the whole show than just Wogan, though. And so, for the benefit of anybody who’s new to Eurovision or just wants to take the contest a little more seriously than the UK has in the recent past, Ewan has prepared a series of introductory videos, which we’ve collected into a customised player. Click the image to load the player in a separate window:
Over the next few hours, you’ll see a “Eurovision” graphic appear in the right-hand column of the blog, which will act as a shortcut to the most recent Eurovision-centric stories, including Ewan’s reports from Moscow as they come in.
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