Sounds Jewish

In this episode broadcaster and oral historian Alan Dein eavesdrops on a day in the life of Oldhill Street in Hackney, a remarkable corner of London

Alan Dein explores Jewish comedy through the stories of four Jews with a knack for making people laugh

Alan Dein explores the world of shampoo, shaving and the sheitl, finding remarkable stories with Jewish hair at their roots.

From steam baths to barmitzvah memories, Alan Dein digs out four remarkable stories on the theme of encounters

Four stories of Jewish life on the age-old Chanukah theme of tenacity and persistence against the odds: from the Austrian-Jewish refugee who maintained a lifelong love of two sets of parents to the music enthusiast reviving the Latin flame that once burned in Jewish hearts

Four stories of Jewish life on the theme of beginnings, from the Hasidic woman breaking away to start a new life to the discovery of a dark family secret, from the start of a teenage night out at Edgware station to the tasting of the forbidden … a pork wonton

Writer Denise Grollmus goes on a personal journey of Jewish discovery in Poland, the country where 3 million Jews were murdered by the Nazis during the second world war

A B Yehoshua, Judith Butler and Sam Leith join Hephzibah Anderson at Kings Place to mark Jewish Book Week 2013

Naomi Alderman, Yossi Mekelberg and Alexander Bodin Saphir join Jason Solomons to discuss the Israeli elections, the Oscars and the Gerald Scarfe cartoon in the Sunday Times

Robert Popper, Tracy-Ann Oberman and Jacob Steinberg join Jason Solomons to discuss why Jewish culture was on-trend this year … and why Jews love Christmas lunch

Ian Black and Mark Gardner join Jason Solomons to discuss the eight days of conflict between Israel and Hamas in and around Gaza

Naomi Gryn joins Jason Solomons to discuss the descendants of Holocaust survivors who are tattooing their grandparents' Auschwitz numbers on their own arms. Plus Mark Gettleson on the importance of the Jewish vote in the US presidential election

Joining Jason Solomons this month is theatre director and playwright Julia Pascal

Rafael Behr, the political editor of the New Statesman, talks to Jason about the magazine's special edition on British Jewish identity; Laura Marks of the Board of Deputies of British Jews addresses sexism in the Jewish community and Francesca Segal discusses her debut novel, The Innocents, set in north-west London

From Petticoat Lane legend Mike Stern to 'bagel poet' Ben Mandelson, we pay tribute to the Jewish East End of London – recalling a lost community whose influence lives on, through its food, its personalities and its spirit

Joining Jonathan Freedland in a Jewish Book Week special are guests Shalom Auslander, Etgar Keret, Meg Rosoff and David Schneider

A discussion about the growing row dividing Britain's Jews over how to relate to British Muslims; an exclusive interview with former war photographer Judah Passow, who's been documenting the faces of Anglo-Jewry; and an interview with Brooklyn-based indie band Girls in Trouble, who combine folk, underground rock – and stories from the Old Testament

In this special end-of-year edition of the show, we'll be reviewing the Jewish highs and lows of 2011 and celebrating Hanukah with sugar-laced, deep-fried doughnuts and live music in the studio from Erran Baron Cohen and Jules Brookes. With guests Jonathan Freedland and Rachel Lasserson

This month we look at the burning issues that fired up the tent protesters in Israel; allegations of misogyny amongst the ultra-orthodox; and political cartoons that have provoked a deluge of hate mail

We take a journey of sound, music and speech to mark the 10 Days of Penitence, from Rosh Hashanah to Yom Kippur

Jason is joined by doyenne of Jewish food Claudia Roden and leading food critic Giles Coren in this culinary special

Jason discusses antisemitism in football with David Baddiel and Gerald Jacobs, and Jesse Eisenberg chats about his new film

Comedian David Schneider is joined by Maureen Lipman, Amy Rosenthal and Rabbi Jeremy Gordon as they gather for an evening of theatre based on the seder's central theme: freedom

In a Jewish Book Week special Jason Solomons meets Maureen Lipman and Anne Frank's last living relative

Joining Jason Solomons are Hagai Segal, Middle East politics lecturer at New York University London, and playwright Ryan Craig, to discuss regional turmoil and Israel on stage and screen

Jason Solomons is joined by Jonathan Freedland as he reviews the Jewish highs and lows of 2010

This month, Jason is joined by Birds of a Feather writers Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran

In a bumper New Year edition of Sounds Jewish, Booker-shortlisted author Howard Jacobson reads from his latest novel, The Finkler Question

Is the pope wading into troubled waters in his relations with Jews? Plus, an important anniversary for female rabbis. Jason is joined in the studio by Peter Stanford and Miriam Berger

Free speech on campus, the meaning of Yiddish word broigus and a comic turn from motormouth yentas Ronna and Beverly

In this month's podcast, Jason Solomons is joined in studio by comedian and novelist David Baddiel and Sarfraz Manzoor

Join Jason Solomons in London for Jewish Book Week: with literary stars Kathy Lette, Will Self and Jonathan Safran Foer

Jason Solomons visits the new Jewish Museum of London and talks Jewish dating with Miriam Shaviv and Tim Samuels

Jason Solomons talks Hanukah and boxing with comedian David Schneider and singer-songwriter Sean Altman

A special edition for UK Jewish Film Festival. The Coen brothers, Inglourious Basterds and more

The Tories' troublesome partnership with rightwing parties in Eastern Europe. Plus, do British Jews and Muslims have more in common than they think? And beatboxing with Chasidic hip-hop reggae star Matisyahu

Bernard Madoff and his Jewish victims, the power of atonement and: is Leonard Cohen the most Jewish musician in the world? Jason Solomons with your monthly show

Do Jewish schools discriminate? Plus Marilyn Monroe and a report on the Jewish queens of Bollywood

Are British Jews ending their love affair with Labour? Plus, are Jewish parents too overprotective? And why Alan Sugar's made Yiddish sexy

A hard-hitting response to Caryl Churchill, the US 'pro-peace' lobby and a Jewish-Arab double act dreaming of Eurovision glory

In Sounds Jewish for April 2009, the second coming of Bibi Netanyahu, how Jews shaped heavy metal and five ways to survive passover with agony aunt Irma Kurtz

A special edition marking Jewish Book Week, presented by Jason Solomons

This month, Sounds Jewish teams up with the Islamophonic podcast to look at the impact the conflict in Gaza has had on British Jews and Muslims

Is Fagin too antisemitic for the London stage, Obama's Jewish allies and – what's the Yiddish for condom? Presented by Jason Solomons and comedian David Schneider

Jason Solomons talks to Borat director and Seinfeld co-writer Larry Charles, and the Jewish Film Festival artistic director Gali Gold

Jason Solomons asks if the net has made antisemitism worse, plus Sarah Silverman urges Jewish grandmothers to swing the Florida vote for Obama

Is Israel about to have a woman PM? Is the Holocaust a suitable subject for a film aimed at children? Plus Joan Rivers on her autobiographical show

Jason Solomons is joined by Rabbi Laura Janner-Klausner and Ivor Baddiel to tackle the big questions: Is God a woman – and can Jews camp?

Jason Solomons is joined by Tanya Gold and James Max for this month's discussion of The Apprentice and the first ever kvetch choir

Jason Solomons presents the latest edition of our podcast for the Jewish community, looking at the 60th anniversary of the state of Israel