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The Alexei Sayle Podcast

124: Diggers, Palestine Marches and Tommy Robinson

The Alexei Sayle Podcast

Alexei Sayle and Talal Karkouti

Society & Culture, Comedy, Government

4.8610 Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2026

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Alexei Sayle and Talal Karkouti bring the podcast to the Northants May Day and Wellingborough Diggers Festival 2026!

They also talk weaponising antisemitism, Russell Brand and why there is still hope.

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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

Hello! All right, yo, I'm not Alexi, Seale. I'm Talal Kharkuti. I co-host, produce the podcast.

0:15.6

Has anyone here listened to the podcast? Yeah, let's hear you. Okay, as little as I thought. And so the rest of you get ready for a

0:26.5

mild ride. It's a very casual conversation, unscripted, improvised. And a lot of it, depending on

0:36.1

how soon we run out of things to talk about,

0:38.8

will involve you guys asking Alexi questions, okay?

0:42.6

So start thinking about what you might want to ask Alexi's sale.

0:46.1

We'll do a good, healthy length of Q&A and whatever stories that comes out of that, that's all good.

0:53.7

Are we ready to begin, do you reckon?

0:56.9

Good.

0:58.6

In that case, I'll introduce him.

1:00.4

He's all the way at the back of the room,

1:02.2

so we'll need the applause to us last as long as it can take for him to get here,

1:07.2

which I think might be a minute and a half.

1:08.7

So please welcome to the stage alexie sale oh the music

1:17.6

here he comes okay about another minute I reckon

1:23.6

Perry hey I reckon.

1:30.1

There he is.

1:33.8

Alexis!

1:37.1

Come on.

1:39.4

Hello, Wellingborough.

1:47.9

I, um, it's actually, it's good to be back in Northamptonshire we uh when i was uh i had a house for a long time in a village called morton pinkney which is between um

1:54.4

bambury and northampton near daventry and um i actually moved in on the week when i'd been

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