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The Alexei Sayle Podcast

56: The Siege (with Ben Macintyre)

The Alexei Sayle Podcast

Alexei Sayle and Talal Karkouti

Society & Culture, Comedy, Government

4.8610 Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2024

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

Alexei and Talal get into it with bestselling author Ben Macintyre (Operation Mincemeat, SAS Rogue Heroes, Colditz) about his new book The Siege. It's all about the 1980 Iranian embassy siege where 6 terrorists took over the London embassy for 6 days holding dozens of people hostage... including Talal's dad!

Bombs! SAS! Heroes! Villains! Thatcher!

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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.

0:10.0

Now, first of all, before we get to our main interview today, I'd just like to talk about the fact that the imaginary sandwich bar is coming back to your radios or smart speakers or however you listen.

0:25.3

And the new series is scheduled to be transmitted in January.

0:32.4

Recordings will be in December this year.

0:35.2

But before that happens, and you can apply for tickets to come to those recordings, but

0:40.0

before that happens, if you want to get a preview, I am doing work in progress shows at a place

0:46.6

called the Museum of Comedy, which is in sort of Bloomsbury in central London.

0:53.4

It's a lovely little 70-seater venue.

0:57.4

And what I'm going to do is I will do two whole sandwich bar shows each night.

1:03.9

I mean, obviously, in, you know, they're in raw,

1:09.3

for roarish form.

1:11.9

But nevertheless, we will do them as if you are at a recording of sandwich bar.

1:20.1

Those dates are the 16th, 17th, 29th, 30th of November and 1st of December.

1:29.3

Tickets to go, even though it's a fair way away,

1:31.5

tickets are going fairly rapidly.

1:32.9

But I think I would love it.

1:34.2

I mean, particularly, I think the first one,

1:35.6

the 16th is a little bit slow.

1:37.6

So I would love it if you could come,

1:40.8

if any fans want to come.

1:42.1

Obviously, I will be around afterwards in the bar i will sign

1:46.2

stuff i will do selfies it would be nice to talk to you it's a sort of place where that kind of

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