Enjoy the liveliest Jewish audio experience in cyberspace, with our podcast, ‘Sounds Jewish’. Produced in association with The Guardian, our monthly programme, hosted by Jason Solomons, will give you the low down on Jewish arts, Jewish events, Jewish music, the latest Jewish happenings in London and sparky debate on issues of the moment.

Joining Jason Solomons in the studio this month are theatre critic John Nathan and Israeli journalist Daphna Baram. They tackle controversy head on: in theatre, in politics and Eurovision.

We look at the new play Seven Other Children, a hard-hitting response to Caryl Churchill's much-debated work, Seven Jewish Children. Author Richard Stirling performs an extract for us in studio and explains why, as a non-Jew, he was so angered by the original play that he was moved to write his own.

To the United States, where we explore the new "pro-peace" lobby taking on America's pro-Israel establishment.

Jason speaks with one of J-Street's key advisors, Daniel Levy, and to the director of the Transatlantic Institute, Emanuele Ottolenghi.

Finally, as Europe looks forward to the kitchfest that is Eurovision, we head back to the late 1970's when Israeli music was celebrated with two wins on the trot: A-bani-bi and Hallelujah. Does this year's Israeli entry – performed jointly by the Jewish Israeli Achinoam Nini, or Noa, and the Palestinian Israeli Mira Awad – stand a chance? We speak to Mira as she dreams of Eurovision glory …

Sounds Jewish is produced by the Jewish Community Centre for London

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