Radio International - The Ultimate Eurovision Experience (2026-01-07): Interview with Jonatan Cerrada (France 2004), ESC National Final Season 2026, 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 

Interview with Jonatan Cerrada (France 2004) done at the  Eurovision Club Germany's Convention 2025
Eurovision Spotlight: Eurovision 2026 National Finals with Ross Bennett (new series)
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 

 






Jonatan Cerrada (France 2004) at Eurovision Club Germany's 2025 Convention



 




Interview with Jonatan Cerrada (France 2004):  At the Eurovision Club Germany's annual convention on 22 Nov 2025 in Cologne, Germany four great Eurovision performers where invited to perform in front of an international crowd of Eurovision Fans. Radio International's JP, Marc and Salman were on location in Cologne and conduction interviews with the below artists which you will be able to listen to on the show during the upcoming weeks.
Previously on Radio International we heard already the interview with Laura Thorn who represented Luxembourg at the eurovision Song Contest 2025 with the song "La poupée monte le son" coming 22nd in the Grand Final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2025.
Cesar Sampson represented Austria at the Eurovision Song Contest in 2018 coming third with "Nobody but you". 
Another artist from the Eurovision 2025 was Klemen who represented Slovenia at the Eurovision Song Contest 2025 with the song "How much time do we have left" sadly not making it out of his Semi Final. 

Then from the Eurovision Song Contest 2004, Jonatan Cerrada represented, as a Belgian, France at the Eurovision Song Contest with the song "A chaque pas" coming 15th.  
 
This week on Radio International is very proud to broadcast the interview done with Jonatan Cerrada. 








 



 
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. Starting off the new series is Ross Bennett who will be looking at the Montesong 2025 (for Eurovision 2026). 






 
 

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 the updates of the National Finals to the Eurovision Song Contest 2026 and and....
 









 

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