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Forget your ISDN lines, forget commentators using their mobiles to call back to studios to tell them what is happening, you need the alternative commentary track from Ewan Spence and the team at ESC Insight.
Following on from what looks to be a successful first semi-final, here’s the track for tonight’s second semi final. Facts, fun, special guests, trivia, and at least one mention of Deep Purple.
The journey continues, settle down in your chair, put the TV on (or head to www.eurovision.tv/esctv to watch the official stream) and get ready for the beeps.
As always, technical and legal reasons mean syncing up with the live broadcast without the help of the BBC Radio 2 production van mean you need to do a little bit of work, so grab the MP3, cue it up in your audio player of choice, be it portable on headphones, or on your PC. Feel free to start listening whenever you want, but starting as the show starts is fine.
I’ll remind you in the show, but when you hear a beep, you pause the track, watch the song performance, then start up the track again. Don’t stop for adverts or cutaways, just for the music.
The only potential gotcha is that with no opening ceremony or show, there’s no obvious starting point, so start the track, pause when I tell you and start up again when our hosts say “Let the shown begin!”
Enjoy! And you can still follow me real time on Twitter for updates direct from Dusseldorf and the Contest.
Eurovision 2011 Podcast: Semi Final 2 Commentary
Ewan Spence talks you though the second semi final of Eurovision. Press play before the show starts, and don’t forget to pause for the music when you hear the beep!
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