106: The Banality of Genius
The Alexei Sayle Podcast
Alexei Sayle and Talal Karkouti
4.8 • 610 Ratings
🗓️ 29 November 2025
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Alexei will probably be appearing in Birmingham at an event for Paul Holden's new book. Get tickets here.
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| 0:00.0 | The |
| 0:07.0 | The Hello, everybody, welcome to episode 106 of the Alexislexi cell podcast we had um i think one of our most |
| 0:42.5 | popular podcast in a while with the paul holden interview the author of um the fraud uh the rise |
| 0:51.3 | about all the rise of kirstama and his faction. |
| 0:57.7 | And I think I'm going to be doing a live event with Paul and, |
| 1:03.2 | Andrew Feinstein on the 10th of December in Birmingham. |
| 1:11.5 | Oh, okay. |
| 1:13.4 | I'll put a link to that in the show notes in the description. |
| 1:16.7 | I haven't confirmed yet. |
| 1:18.0 | I should email them back. |
| 1:20.1 | I don't know. |
| 1:22.2 | They did offer me the ninth in Liverpool, |
| 1:27.3 | which would have been nice, but that's the BBC that day is the BBC |
| 1:30.3 | the BBC BBC Studios audio um comedy Christmas party what used to be years ago the BBC Radio for Christmas party. What used to be years ago, the BBC Radio 4, Christmas Party, comedy. |
| 1:47.9 | But I am now, you know, they used to get these grandees like Nicholas Parsons and, you know, Alan Corrin. |
| 1:57.0 | And that's me now. |
| 1:59.0 | So I'll go to the BBC Studios, audio, Radio 4 Christmas party and sit in a chair and have young comedians come up and kiss my hand. |
| 2:12.3 | Yes. |
| 2:13.4 | But I think I am the. |
| 2:15.9 | And is it true that if any of them ask you for a favour on that particular day, |
| 2:20.8 | you have to oblige... |
| 2:23.4 | Yeah, well, yeah, but, you know, yeah. |
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