Peter Urban has been the German voice of the Eurovision Song Contest for 25 years. Next Saturday's final in Liverpool will be his last.
The 75-year-old also made a name for himself as a music expert and radio presenter. He missed only one of the European music festival's finals, in 2009, for health reasons. The most dramatic finals are always the ones where it's exciting until the end, he says. The breakdown didn't happen to me, but my impatient reaction to it didn't have to be.