119: Ambulances & Returning Marxist Dance Videos
The Alexei Sayle Podcast
Alexei Sayle and Talal Karkouti
4.8 • 610 Ratings
🗓️ 28 March 2026
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Alexei Sayle and Talal Karkouti return for the yammiest of yams. They yam about Michael Rosen and Miriam Margolyes, Iran, Planes, Graham Greene, Orson Welles (new Alexei Sayle Film Club alert!), hobbies and the origins of the "I'm not really foreign, you know" bit from The Young Ones.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | The |
| 0:07.0 | The Okay, hi everybody. |
| 0:31.4 | Welcome to episode 120 of the Alexi Sale podcast. |
| 0:36.0 | I'm sorry we weren't here last week, but frankly, we just |
| 0:39.8 | locked on and then we just sat staring each other and had nothing to say to each other. |
| 0:46.4 | Our marriage is reaching an end. I think it's come to that point where we've got nothing to say. |
| 0:52.0 | We're just sitting up in bed, reading or looking at our iPads. That's the sign of a good marriage is that you're comfortable in silence together, isn't it? But it just doesn't make for good podcasting. It just makes for a good podcast now. We're not sitting there seething at each other. Yeah, no that's true we're just i think we've done |
| 1:10.9 | some filming earlier that week as well and we'd both been really busy and the news had been a bit |
| 1:16.6 | i know it's all very active a lot fucking going on but in a way at the same time it's just the same |
| 1:22.1 | just what can you say yeah it's just and what can you say evil rampant yeah so and i every month or two, I think it's fine if we take a week off. |
| 1:31.0 | It lets us recharge the batteries. |
| 1:33.4 | Yeah. |
| 1:34.3 | You know, I am sadly, I'll get it out the way here. |
| 1:38.1 | I'm travelling for Easter next week, so we're going to do our best to do a... Yeah. I'll record from up north. |
| 1:44.8 | I'll take my laptop with me. |
| 1:46.1 | But if it doesn't come together, I'm really sorry, listeners. |
| 1:48.7 | Yeah, we are doing our best. |
| 1:51.5 | We try. |
| 1:51.9 | Here we are. |
| 1:54.0 | 120. |
| 1:55.1 | So, yes, episode 100. |
| 1:56.7 | So, what did I? |
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