Then on Friday 12 May Zoe and the team will be live from the centre of Liverpool ahead of a huge weekend for the city. Zoe will be joined by a host of special guests including Eurovision legends, super-fans and some of those involved in this year's contest. Richie Anderson will be out and about, meeting people from across the continent and beyond who have travelled to Liverpool to join the party. Whether or not Richie will be dressed in an inflatable spacesuit is yet to be confirmed! A BBC Audio production. The first group of countries who will compete for a place in Saturday’s Grand Final are: Azerbaijan, Croatia, Czechia, Finland, Ireland, Israel, Latvia, Malta, Moldova, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Serbia, Sweden, Switzerland.

Rylan has been invited to Ambridge to judge the village’s Eurovision Variety Show – but trouble ensues when his sat-nav goes awry, and Ambridge residents find themselves competing to come to his rescue... Eurovision Song Contest 2022 - A rewatch of last year’s sensational Turin Grand Final show on Friday 5 May to get everyone into the Eurovision spirit and building anticipation for a big week of Eurovision fun.

Silver star Verka Serduchka

BBC Northwest Tonight will be live in Liverpool for the week leading up to the Eurovision final with a special programme on the eve of Eurovision. As well as covering the spectacle and everything a Scouse Eurovision brings, they will be telling the stories of Ukrainians in the Northwest and sharing the experiences of the LGBTQIA+ community. In the true spirit of collaboration every film we make will be shared with our colleagues in BBC Ukraine so that the country can what Liverpool is doing to support them. Between them, Scott and Natalie will celebrate some of the biggest Eurovision moments of the past 20 years, and beyond, while looking forward to this year’s competition in Liverpool.

Libraries will host displays and events bringing the chosen books to a wider audience, while six much-loved books set in Eurovision countries will feature in Between the Covers, the nation’s biggest book club. Hosted at Liverpool's historic St George's Hall, the event will see Liverpool's own Sam Quek and Ukrainian Eurovision legend Timur Miroshnychenko welcome all 37 acts to the city. Exclusive coverage is available on EBU YouTube on Sunday 7 May, and highlights will air on BBC One and BBC iPlayer the following evening, Monday 8 May. The event is the perfect introduction to the upcoming week of festivities. Junior Eurovision 2022 UK representative Freya Skye will be reporting for Newsround from Liverpool during Eurovision week. She will also be live in the Blue Peter studio on the 12th May looking ahead to the Grand Final and giving her predictions.

Eurovision Live Shows

Liverpool has produced some of the world’s most famous and beloved songs in history: these Eurovision legends will all put their own spin on some classic hits. From Liverpool's world-famous waterfront, Fleur East presents a special Top 20 Eurovision Countdown - songs that missed out on the big prize but still went on to become monster hits. Eurovision super-fans, Rylan and Scott Mills, will be live from Liverpool bringing the glitz and glamour of the Grand Final to BBC Radio 2.

The A-Z of Eurovision, first broadcast in 2020, sees Rylan narrate a guide to all things Eurovision as he takes a sideways look at the greatest singing contest on the planet. An uplifting story about a group of music fans who dreamed of entering Eurovision, A Song For Scotland is an Only Films production. BBC Wales RuPaul’s Drag Race UK winner Danny Beard loves Liverpool and loves Eurovision! Across this six-part series, they’re bringing together the campest Eurovision hits for a celebration of LGBTQ+ anthems. Danny will deliver a Pride-inspired selection of feel-great hits that will ignite living-room-dancefloors across the UK as well as bring Eurovision to life for new fans. A Radio 1 commission for BBC Sounds, available now. Both Semi-Finals will be broadcast live on BBC One and BBC iPlayer for the first time, with radio DJs and Eurovision experts, Scott Mills and Rylan bringing UK audiences their colourful and insightful commentary. The Shows

The baffling Dustin the Turkey

All scrunchies are made with stretchy and durable elastic, covered with patterned fabric and finished with our Kingdom Dash tag. Continuing what has become a touching annual tradition, Scott and Rylan will toast broadcasting legend Sir Terry Wogan, former Radio 2 presenter and Eurovision commentator, before contestant number nine’s performance. Every night from Tuesday 9 May through to the Saturday night Grand Final on 13 May. The One Show will have a special week of Eurovision programmes - presented by Alex Jones and Ronan Keating from Tuesday to Thursday titled The One Show at Eurovision, followed by Alex and Rylan on Friday, raising the curtain with a brilliant mix of guests on the sofa, exclusive behind the scenes action, films shot around the UK, and live link ups to fans across the country. In a special one-off, The One Show will be broadcast live on a Saturday evening as Eurovision Countdown with The One Show is broadcast live on BBC One and BBC iPlayer, Saturday 13 May from 7.30pm. These titles include autobiographies, fiction for adults, and from the Young Adult genre, books which show how music has shaped political change and vice versa. These books were crowdsourced and shortlisted by librarians from across the UK.

BBC Radio 2 is the home of Eurovision 2023 on UK radio, with programmes across the network covering the news and building up to the excitement of the live Eurovision Grand Final which will be hosted this year on Radio 2 by Rylan and Scott Mills. Eurovision: Everyone’s A Winner is a Shearwater Media production for BBC One and BBC iPlayer. Across the UK During the show, UK audiences will be able to vote for who they want to see go through to the Grand Final. Eurovision 2023 Grand Final Those confirmed so far to hold official screenings are: Birmingham, Brighton, Cardiff, Darlington, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle, Nottingham and Sheffield. More are set to be confirmed over the coming weeks. The show also sees Ukrainian Timur Myroshnychenko bring audiences highlights from Sunday’s Turquoise Carpet opening ceremony, plus there will be a fun VT featuring former Eurovision hosts Måns Zelmerlöw and Filomena Cautela going head to head in a game testing their Eurovision knowledge.Sam Ryder: Road To Eurovision, first broadcast in May 2022. Sam became a viral TikTok star during the pandemic, reaching a huge fanbase of 12 million people. Here, we follow his journey as he represents the UK at the 66th Eurovision Song Contest.