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The Alexei Sayle Podcast

12: A is for Anarchy

The Alexei Sayle Podcast

Alexei Sayle and Talal Karkouti

Society & Culture, Comedy, Government

4.8610 Ratings

🗓️ 22 June 2021

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Alexei begins his A-Z of Left Politics by sitting down with Professor Paul Preston to discuss The Spanish Civil War, Franco, revolution and anarchy.

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The Alexei Sayle Podcast is produced and edited by Talal Karkouti
Music by Tarboosh Records
Photograph from the Andy Hollingworth Archive

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi everybody and welcome to podcast number 12 of the AlexiSail podcast.

0:12.1

And boy, have we got a show for you.

0:14.6

Well, we have a show for you.

0:16.3

So, yeah, the statement to the fucking obvious, isn't it?

0:37.5

Now I'm going to throw to my, this is my posse, uh, Talal, like Steve Wright show. Hello. Oh, thank you. Thank you. Please. Yeah. Yeah. And, how's it going, mate? All right. Yeah. How are you? Good. Good. Um, actually, very, I'm feeling very unprepared at the moment, actually.

0:43.4

It's a bit frustrating.

0:46.4

About two very specific things.

0:48.3

I've got my first stand-up gig since before lockdown coming up.

0:56.1

And I've written no new material apart from a song about hummus.

1:02.1

Okay.

1:02.7

That's the only new thing I have.

1:04.1

And so that's about two and a half minutes covered.

1:07.4

Right.

1:07.9

And I'm kind of bricking it.

1:10.6

Yeah, it sounds like an anxiety dream, but it's real?

1:14.8

I did have an anxiety dream the other day as well.

1:17.7

I'm not surprised.

1:18.7

I kept making a mess in my underwear in a dream over and over again.

1:24.4

But let's not get into that.

1:25.7

Yeah, so I'm a bit panicky about that. I'm getting to analyze that. Yeah. And it's a really good night that I'm really fond of called Arabs are not funny with some really great British Arab comedians that I really respect. And I'm just going to be doing the same fucking stuff that I was doing last time. And I need to write material quick. Yeah, you need to write some material fucking quick that I was doing last time. I need to write material quick.

1:45.8

Yeah, you need to write some material fucking quick.

1:48.1

Is it a try-out night or is it a night where you're supposed to bring your A-game?

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