This month, Jason is joined by Birds of a Feather writers Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran – and by one of the stars of Mike Leigh's Two Thousand Years, Alexis Zegerman.
Is Howard Jacobson's triumph – winning the Man Booker prize with an avowedly, intensely Jewish novel – part of a trend? Has Jewish life suddenly gone mainstream in the British arts?
Marks and Gran discuss the real life Nazi origins of their acclaimed new play, Von Ribbentrop's Watch – and explain why Jews have always been the outsiders in their TV shows.
And with a new BBC show depicting a Jewish family – Simon Amstell's Grandma's House, we'll ask whether it's ever possible to avoid turning Jewish characters into stereotypes. And why do Jewish mothers always sound so shrill and overbearing on screen?
What about the new generation of British Jewish writers and actors: is Jewishness central to their work? Or are they just Jew-ish?
Plus, don't miss Marks and Gran's perfect Jewish joke....
