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Hello, I'm Matthew Price.

This is Beyond Today from BBC Radio 4.

Every day we ask one big question about one big story.

Today could your vision change Israel and the Palestinians?

If I say Eurovision, what's the memory?

The memory is watching it with my friends when we were teenagers and the one song that is still

in my head quite often is the Greek 2002 entry it's called SAGapo and it's these four men in kind of like robot

costumes going like say say the magic word seagapo S-H-H-A-P-O like I can still sing it by heart.

Yeah, they didn't win. I think I'm the only person in the UK that still remembers that song.

Maybe in all of Europe.

That's why people like Eurovision, isn't it? It's funny. It's a laugh.

It's very, very silly. There have been some truly bizarre entries, but they're also like really good pop songs like other countries take it really seriously, really want to win. The UK kind of doesn't really care and thinks everyone hates us, they won't vote for us.

But ultimately it is just lots of fun, it is silly.

But this year, this year feels a bit more serious than normal.

I think because of who won last year.

Yeah, things are a bit different this year.

Hello.

Hello Steve. Hey Matthew. This year the Eurovision reporters and mega fans like Newsbeats Steve Holden are in Tel Aviv in Israel.

I've had a lot of fun in Tel Aviv, it's a great city, but as Steve is about to tell us,

that's only part of the story.

This is my third professionally and, because I went to Lisbon last year and I went to

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