Eurovision's Greatest Hits, review: Conchita Wurst puts in an assured europop performance

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Even with the competitive element missing, protest still intrudes on the BBC's slick celebration of the Eurovision Song Contest's 60th anniversary, with Russia's mention getting booed.

Usually, predictable voting habits leave a sour note, but with a roster of winners and other favourites reaching back to the seventies, the audience reminds us identity politics has given the competition a distinct aesthetic.

Presenter Graham Norton stills complaints with a stern, “You can boo in Vienna [this year's host city], you can boo at home, but not here,” before Russia's 2008 winner Dima Bilan wins over the crowd with his earnest vocal and camp mannerisms.

As Finnish hard-rock horror show Lordi set the stage ablaze, you feel novelty nowadays overly sways opinion, though last year's bearded winner Conchita Wurst and Denmark's Emmelie de Forest put in assured europop performances.

Veteran artists, though, really shine. Anne-Marie David brings a touch of Gallic class to 'Tu Te Reconnaitras', while a tanned Johnny Logan, Ireland's triple-winner (including one composition) delivers in a rich timbre his medley, spoilt only by a clumsy segue.

Not, then, the definitive greatest hits, but as the inescapable earworm 'Diggi-Loo Diggi-Ley' from Sweden's game trio Herreys reminds us, tasteful is rarely a vote-winner.