Radio International - The Ultimate Eurovision Experience (2026-09-02): Interviews with Bandidos do Cante (Portugal 2026) and Klemen (Slovenia 2026), Birthday File, Cover Spot, News,...

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 Bandidos do Cante  (Portugal 2026) - done in Vienna, Austria during the rehearsal weeks by Alan Forrotti Interview with Klemen (Slovenia 2026) - done at the Eurovision Club Germany 2025 Convention Eurovision Spotlight: The Magical Letter Game with Dermot Manning Eurovision News with Johannes Vitt courtesy of www.escXtra.com Eurovision Birthday File with David Mann Eurovision Cover Spot with David Mann Eurovision Calendar with Javier Leal  National Final Update Eurovision and Junior Eurovision with Alain Forrotti  New Music Releases by Eurovision Artists  Your music requests     Photo courtesy of Wikipedia Bandidos do Cante (Portugal 2026) Interview with Bandidos do Cante (Portugal 2026): Radio International's blind colleague Alain Forrotti and Newscaster Johannes had the pleasure to meet and interview the Winners of Festival da Cancao 2026 and Portugal's representatives at the Eurovision Song Contest 2026 - Bandidos do Cante who performed the song "Rose" which unfortunately did not qualify for the Grand Final of the competition ending up at Number 12 in Semi Final 1. Beautifully performed with great voice harmonies. Listen to the interview with the group on the show this week.      Klemen (Slovenia 2025) with JP at LondonHagen 2026 Interview with Klemen (Slovenia 2026): In 2025, Slovenia was represented by the very talented singer / songwriter  / comedian / show host Klemen Slakonja (stage name Klemen) with the song "How much time do we have left". Unfortunately, Slovenia ranked Number 13 in Semi Final 1 of the Eurovision Song COntest 2025 in Basel, Switzerland. The Interview Team of Radio International, Marc, Salman and JP met Klemen at the Eurovision Club Germany's annual convention in November 2025 and interviewed him on his participation at Eurovision and his profession in Slovenia. Listen to the interview on the show this week.      The Eurovision Spotlight - The Magic Letter Game: As summer has officially arrived on the northern hemisphere of the globe it means that it is also time for the summer feature for the next few weeks. The summer feature is the Magic Letter Game involving Eurovision Songs which you will be presented by the Radio International Team of Experts :). Dermot Manning continues the summer series with Letter K and will explain the Rules of the Game.     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.  Johannes 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