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When Eurovision came to town

Tim Cooper, Little Atoms, 12 July 2018

In 1993, as war raged in the Balkans, the Eurovision circus descended on the tiny Irish town of Millstreet. It was with the emergence of nations from the former Yugoslavia and the Soviet bloc, the beginning of the modern era of the competition. Tim Cooper was sent to report

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