{"id":2923,"date":"2010-05-26T12:26:22","date_gmt":"2010-05-26T12:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ewanspence.com\/blog\/?p=2923"},"modified":"2023-04-18T22:38:43","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T22:38:43","slug":"eurovision-2010-podcast-paddy-oconnell-the-uks-other-commentator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/2010\/05\/eurovision-2010-podcast-paddy-oconnell-the-uks-other-commentator\/","title":{"rendered":"Eurovision 2010 Podcast: Paddy O&#8217;Connell, the UK&#8217;s other commentator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eurovision 2010 Podcast: Paddy O\u2019Connell, the UK\u2019s other commentator (MP3 10.8 MB 11 minutes 39 seconds)    <br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/UnofficialEurovisionSongContestPodcast17\/1-17Eurovision2010Podcast_Paddy.mp3\">DOWNLOAD the podcast by right clicking on this link<\/a>, or press play and listen in your browser.<\/p>\n<p>[powerpress]<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully you all enjoyed my commentary track on the podcast at last night\u2019s semi-final, but Eurovision never stops. it\u2019s on with planning the second semi-final and finding out more stories of the people at the Song Contest.<\/p>\n<p>Today it\u2019s the turn of another commentator \u2013 Paddy O\u2019Connell who runs the semi-final coverage on BBC3 in the United Kingdom. How much does he know about the contest, how much does he love it, what does he do to prepare for the live broadcasts, and how did he feel when Graham Norton replaced Terry Wogan and left him as the bridesmaid?<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s find out!<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>Eurovision 2010 Podcast: Paddy O\u2019Connell, the UK\u2019s other commentator<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Paddy O\u2019Connell, BBC 3 commentator for the Eurovision Semi Finals     <br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/eurovision\">www.bbc.co.uk\/eurovision<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Paddy O&#39;Connell and Ewan Spence\" style=\"border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-left: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-bottom: 0px\" height=\"306\" alt=\"Paddy O&#39;Connell and Ewan Spence\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/image139.png\" width=\"445\" border=\"0\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>Make sure you never miss an episode of The Unofficial Eurovision Podcast by subscribing to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.escinsight.com\/category\/podcast\/feed\/\">RSS feed<\/a> for all the shows, or Apple fans can use <a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/podcast\/the-unofficial-eurovision\/id369754923\">iTunes to get the show automatically downloaded to your computer<\/a>. And <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/product\/B003I86P6E?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=allnewewansmu-21&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1634&amp;creative=6738&amp;creativeASIN=B003I86P6E\">the official CD is available from Amazon<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/image136.png\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ewan chats to BBC3 Semi Final Commentator Paddy O&#8217;Connell to talk about describing the live event to the TV viewers back in the UK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1574,22,392,1715,1700],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2010-conferences","category-conferences","category-eurovision-multimedia","category-podcast-eurovision-multimedia-multimedia","category-eurovision-2010","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Gl0-L9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2923"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65568,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2923\/revisions\/65568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}