Episode 24: Eurovision 1998 Recap

Episode 24

20th June 2024

It’s Pride Month and what better ESC to revisit than the most Diva-licious year ever, 1998 in Birmingham, England? The trio is joined by Sara Rose Caplan of Riverdale: Season Six The Podcast to give out an A+ and failing grades to the competitors. Jeremy’s stuck between Heaven and Earth, Sara comes alive for Jupiter, […]

Episode notes

It’s Pride Month and what better ESC to revisit than the most Diva-licious year ever, 1998 in Birmingham, England? The trio is joined by Sara Rose Caplan of Riverdale: Season Six The Podcast to give out an A+ and failing grades to the competitors. Jeremy’s stuck between Heaven and Earth, Sara comes alive for Jupiter, Dimitry demands some respect for vocal quality, and Oscar’s handing out his worst dressed award.

Listen to Sara’s podcast (featuring our own Oscar Montoya!), Riverdale: Season Six The Podcast.

Watch all of Eurovision 1998 in glorious upscaled HD.

Or you can skip the performances and just watch 1998’s insane postcards.

And as always, this week’s companion playlist.

The Eurovangelists are Jeremy Bent, Oscar Montoya and Dimitry Pompee.

The theme was arranged and recorded by Cody McCorry and Faye Fadem, and the logo was designed by Tom Deja.

Production support for this show was provided by the Maximum Fun network.

Audio mixing help was courtesy of Shane O’Connell.

Find Eurovangelists on social media as @eurovangelists on Twitter and Instagram, or send us an email at eurovangelists@gmail.com. Also follow the Eurovangelists account on Spotify and check out our playlists of Eurovision hits, competitors in upcoming national finals, and companion playlists to every single episode, including this one!

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  • Sara Rose Caplan

About the show

What has more pomp, spectacle, and sequins than the Olympics, Wrestlemania, and RuPaul’s Drag Race combined? The Eurovision Song Contest, Europe’s yearly competition to determine which country has the best original song. It’s an extraordinary live musical showdown in which Europe’s most dynamic singers put it all on the line in the name of national pride. And Eurovangelists, a hilarious podcast about all things Eurovision, is here to help you get in on the fun!

Each week, we’ll guide you through everything you need to know about the contest that gave us ABBA, Celine Dion, and a turkey puppet singing on behalf of Ireland. Join superfans Dimitry Pompée, Oscar Montoya, and Jeremy Bent as we get entirely too excited about the latest Eurovision news, argue about which song should win this year, and explore the most inspiring, bizarre, and hilarious stories from the Contest’s start in 1956 all the way to today. Whether you’re a long-time Eurovision fan or completely new to it, we’ll make you into a Eurovangelist too!

Podcast art by Tom Deja.

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