It's Eurovision Week!! Graham's thoughts on Vienna, Australia and his Favourite Eurovision Moments
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Wanging On with Graham Norton and Maria McErlane
34 min
5 speakers
8 chapters
transcribed 4 months ago
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What are Graham's thoughts on Eurovision and Vienna?
Good evening to everyone in the UK.
I mean, I think that's rather charming of you to say that. I like a soft back wall.
Do you? That's what you look for? It's rare for us to get a letter from someone who is the problem. Hello, hello, and welcome to this episode of Wanging On with Graham and Maria. I am Graham, that there's Maria, and we specialise in giving advice you might take with a pinch of salt. That is the gist of the whole thing.
How does Graham feel about teenage drinking issues?
Yeah, don't take us seriously.
No, exactly.
Or do. No, don't. I don't know.
I don't know. See how you feel. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. My bags are packed, Maria. For Eurovision. I'm off to Viennetta.
What neighborly conflicts are discussed regarding invasive ivy?
I love that you had to think about that. Vienna. Vienna. You've probably been to so many countries in Europe now, haven't you?
I'm quite well-traveled, yes. What is the dessert? Is it a Viennetta?
Viennetta, yes, with the ice cream. Yeah.
How does Graham humorously describe his cardboard cutout?
I don't know why. There's a video of that being made. It doesn't look nice.
I read a book.
Yes, called Viennetta.
I read a book. And I can't remember what it was called or anything, but there was a whole chapter on the man who invented the machine to make the Viennetta.
Well, I've seen the machine in action. Well, have you? Yeah.
What dilemmas do listeners share about parenting and alcohol?
There's a video of Viennetta's being made and you won't want to eat one again.
I think it's sadder to have watched the video than to have read a chapter in a book.
I don't know. I don't know.
My algorithm will now be full of people making Viennetta.
Are we digressing from Vienna?
Oh, we are. Vienna.
Tell us about Vienna. What's going on?
How do Graham and Maria respond to a listener's dilemma about neighbor disputes?
Have you been there before?
I have because Conchita Verst won in 2014 and off we went to Vienna. The thing is, like, it's weird because I've been to so many cities around Europe with Eurovision now. Yeah. But I honestly, I feel like one of those pop stars who goes on tour because you don't really see anything. You see backstage in an arena and a hotel room. That's it.
Do you not stay? I think you did stay on a couple of days.
Depends where it is.
What advice do they give regarding dealing with invasive plants?
Oh, okay. So like we did stay on in Lisbon. Yeah, nice. Very nice. When we were in Malmo, we stayed on when we went to Copenhagen.
Nice.
Yeah, because Malmo. Nothing. I mean, what's really annoying, if somebody wins, here's my tip. If somebody wins Eurovision, right, pop it in your capital city.
What are Graham's favorite Eurovision moments shared in this episode?
We don't want to go to the other ones. We don't want to go to Also Appearing. Yeah. We don't want to go to Frankfurt or Malmo.
Cut to this time next year. But I'm guessing when you went to Moscow and, shall we say, Baku, you didn't stay on?
No, I mean, Baku was so extraordinary because it's just so far away. It started at midnight that year so that it could start at 8pm in the UK.
How did you stay awake?
You know, coffee.
A lot of drugs? Were they easy to get?
Baku is really, yeah, I mean... A wash with drugs. Yeah. Cartels a go-go. Always good to keep him with the cartels the minute you land. No, because apparently they'd cleared housing. Like people had lived where the stadium was built and they just got rid of it. They said, you don't live there anymore because it's quite photogenic. So we're putting the stadium up.
And then... We don't hear about this, you see. No.
And then there's loads of money. Obviously, it's Azerbaijan. They've got oil. Yeah. So lots and lots of money. So you drive down the kind of the big strip by the river and it's like by the sea and it's palm trees. It looks fabulous. And it's Gucci, Dolce & Gabbana, Prada, all the amazing shops. If you go one street back, there are just chickens pecking at the ground. I mean, it's just... It really is.
Prada chickens, I hope.
It's yin and yang. It really is yin and yang.
These designers go to great lengths, though, to sort of do the yin and yang.
These feathers will be in a ski coat soon. Yeah, it was very odd.
So you can get some eggs and a lovely Prada jacket at the same time.
Yes, a Gucci basket to put them in.
That'd be nice. And is there somewhere where you really loathed being there? Like I say, because it's all, they all kind of
blur into one in the end.
How many years have you been doing it now?
I think I've been doing it quite a long time.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What are Graham's thoughts on Eurovision and Vienna?
0:00–0:29
2
How does Graham feel about teenage drinking issues?
0:29–0:43
3
What neighborly conflicts are discussed regarding invasive ivy?
0:43–0:57
4
How does Graham humorously describe his cardboard cutout?
0:57–1:16
5
What dilemmas do listeners share about parenting and alcohol?
1:16–1:34
6
How do Graham and Maria respond to a listener's dilemma about neighbor disputes?
1:34–2:01
7
What advice do they give regarding dealing with invasive plants?
2:01–2:19
8
What are Graham's favorite Eurovision moments shared in this episode?
2:19–34:15