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The Alexei Sayle Podcast

30: The Perfect Weapon (with Richard Sanders)

The Alexei Sayle Podcast

Alexei Sayle and Talal Karkouti

Society & Culture, Comedy, Government

4.8610 Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2022

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Many of you watched Al Jazeera's three part series The Labour Files in horror as the inner schemings and corruption of The Labour Party were revealed. Many of you were equally horrified to see that it was getting very little to no coverage in the mainstream media!  Well, in today's podcast we have executive producer of those films and director/writer of the second part - on antisemitism - joining Alexei for a deep dive on how corruption on this scale gets to exist, survive and grow, and what to expect in the future.

Stick around until the end of the podcast for a special update on certain aspects of the interview!

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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, welcome to the 30th edition of the Alexa podcast.

0:22.0

I'm abroad at the moment, which is why I'm using the built-in microphone on my computer,

0:27.4

so it might not sound as perfect as usually does.

0:33.3

I'm also recording this on a momentous day when Liz Truss has just resigned a few minutes ago,

0:40.5

but also the first episode of Alexis Selt's Imaginary Sandwich Bar season four goes out this evening.

0:46.9

And it's a fucking nuisance that she's resigned because there are a couple of...

0:51.0

Oh, do you talk about her?

0:53.2

Yeah, there's a couple of references.

0:55.0

Yeah, and I don't know what we're going to.

0:55.9

Not in this episode, actually, luckily.

0:58.1

But we may either have to, either Viggy is going to have to make a statement saying this show was recorded several weeks ago,

1:05.3

or we're going to have to try and do an edit, really.

1:10.3

Well, it's me who suffers. and do an edit really.

1:14.7

But it's me who suffers.

1:16.8

It's me who suffers most from Listeruses.

1:21.6

Well, she'll still technically be Prime Minister for the next seven days, right? Yeah, it's not.

1:22.6

This episode and next episode, she'll still be the Prime Minister.

1:25.9

Yeah, yeah.

1:30.6

Yeah, I'll speak to Joe,e my producer see what we can do it's a shame really because we had one brilliant laugh about her and um i don't see

1:38.4

that we can keep it in now but anyway we will see but uh first of all i would would like to, we have got this, this episode is an interview

1:48.2

mostly with Richard Sanders, who produced and part directed the Al Jazeera series, the Labor Files,

1:55.9

which is all about... The second episode. He directed the separate, I think he produced the whole series,

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