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Alumni Memories Eurovision Podcast

Alumni Memories Eurovision Podcast

In this special one-off podcast, we talk to academic and University of Liverpool alumnus Dr Sam Murray about the 2023 Eurovision Song Contest, which this year is being held in Liverpool on behalf of Ukraine.

Posted on: 2 May 2023

Alumni Memories: Eurovision 2004man with beard wearing a beanie hat

Alumni Memories: Eurovision 2004

In another in our Eurovision memories, we spoke to Patrick Clancy from the University’s Development and Alumni team about his favourite Eurovision memory. It involves a previous win for the current holders of the Eurovision crown, Ukraine, on whose behalf Liverpool is hosting this year’s competition.

Posted on: 25 April 2023

Alumni Memories: Eurovision 2011A man and woman wearing celebration hats

Alumni Memories: Eurovision 2011

In another of our Alumni Eurovision Memories, alumna and Eurovision superfan, Layla George (BA Hons Sociology and Social Policy 2003), shares her earliest Eurovision memories, and describes the excitement of attending her first Eurovision Song Contest in Dusseldorf in 2011 with partner and fellow alumnus Paul Dudley (BEng Hons Computer Science and Electronic Engineering 2004).  

Posted on: 24 April 2023

Alumni Memories: Eurovision 1985woman in a turquoise jumper smiling facing camera

Alumni Memories: Eurovision 1985

In another of our alumni Eurovision memories’ series, Dr Sarah Green (BSc Hons Molecular Biology 1998, PhD 2005), University fundraiser and Eurovision superfan, shares her earliest childhood memories of Eurovision.

Posted on: 20 April 2023

Alumni Memories: Eurovision 1998three women facing the camera smiling

Alumni Memories: Eurovision 1998

In the second of our Alumni Memories Eurovision specials, another of our alumni remembers her favourite Eurovision moment from 1998, and a ground-breaking winner.

Posted on: 19 April 2023

Alumni Memories: Eurovision 1967

Alumni Memories: Eurovision 1967

To mark the 2023 Eurovision Song Contest, which this year Liverpool is proudly hosting on behalf of Ukraine, we asked alumni to contact us with their special Eurovision memories.

Posted on: 18 April 2023