{"id":584764,"date":"2026-05-15T03:24:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T03:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/584764\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T03:24:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T03:24:10","slug":"australia-soars-into-eurovision-final-as-uk-song-gets-mixed-reception","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/584764\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia soars into Eurovision final as UK song gets mixed reception"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 10 countries who qualified on Thursday night now compete for the Eurovision trophy alongside Belgium, Croatia, Finland, Greece, Lithuania, Moldova, Poland, Serbia and Sweden &#8211; who all qualified on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They&#8217;ll be joined by the UK, Italy, Germany, France and Austria &#8211; who receive automatic places in the final.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Austria gets a free pass because it won last year, and is hosting this year&#8217;s festivities. The others are members of the aforementioned &#8220;Big Four&#8221;.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">You can tune into the grand final on BBC One, BBC iPlayer, Radio 2 and BBC Sounds from 8pm BST on Saturday night. And there&#8217;ll be full coverage, including a comprehensive live page, on the BBC News Website.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In preparation, you can download a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/articles\/481bFYprHTSLnKSX4xZnnQj\/eurovision-scorecards\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Eurovision score card<\/a> to record your opinions of the 25 finalists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 10 countries who qualified on Thursday night now compete for the Eurovision trophy alongside Belgium, Croatia, Finland,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":584765,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-584764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=584764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/584765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}