112: Champagne for Everyone (with Robin Ince)
The Alexei Sayle Podcast
Alexei Sayle and Talal Karkouti
4.8 • 610 Ratings
🗓️ 24 January 2026
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Robin Ince joins Alexei Sayle and Talal Karkouti to discuss Ofcom for podcasts, dragging Alexei back into comedy and Rowland Rivron's Ben Elton impression.
They also explore why Robin stopped working with Ricky Gervais (spoiler: he's not a nice person) and his resignation from Infinite Monkey Cage.
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| 0:00.0 | The |
| 0:07.0 | The Hello everybody and welcome to episode 112 of the Alexi South podcast I have first of all a vital, |
| 0:38.6 | vital piece of housekeeping |
| 0:41.0 | and a mayor Cobra, of course I said |
| 0:42.8 | episode 111 |
| 0:46.2 | and that was the name of the single engine fighter |
| 0:49.5 | which lost out to the... |
| 0:51.0 | Oh, we've had so many complaints about this. |
| 0:52.6 | Oh, I know, the BF109 in the... |
| 0:55.0 | Oh, no. |
| 0:56.0 | The 1935 competition for Luftwaffe. |
| 1:00.0 | And of course, I was right that H, the Heinkel-111 was a bomber. |
| 1:05.0 | And the single-engine fighter which lost out to the BF 109 was in fact the Hinkle 112 which is this |
| 1:14.6 | episode but I can only I can only apologize to the one lunatic who really is interested in this apart from me |
| 1:24.7 | so hello Robin Inns I presume that's the one person who listens, |
| 1:28.9 | not because of your acting or comedy career, but because you were the daily telegraph motoring |
| 1:33.4 | correspondent. That's why I listen to Alexi, and it's these kind of engineering details, |
| 1:39.5 | which is why he lost that job eventually. Yes, exactly. |
| 1:45.6 | It's a broad spread of, you know, I don't think anybody else has quite ever got my |
| 1:50.7 | demographic, which is, you know, Marxists and angry left wingers and people interested in tanks |
| 1:59.3 | and ammunition. |
| 2:00.0 | We often get accused of having not done our research on the topics we discussed, but who would have thought? |
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