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The Alexei Sayle Podcast

65: Soundtrack to a Coup d'État (with Andrew Feinstein)

The Alexei Sayle Podcast

Alexei Sayle and Talal Karkouti

Society & Culture, Comedy, Government

4.8610 Ratings

🗓️ 4 January 2025

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Alexei sits down for a conversation with activist, author and politician Andrew Feinstein. They discuss his history as an MP under Nelson Mandela in South Africa, how the arts helped combat apartheid, how his electoral campaign helped embarrass Keir Starmer and his constant fight against the most corrupt trade in the world - the arms industry.

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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 dear friends, listeners, comrades. This is episode 65 on the AlexiSail podcast. My name is Talal,

0:06.8

just coming in with a quick message at the tippity top of the show. Thank you so much

0:11.3

for your love and outreach about our Christmas episode. Hope you enjoyed it. It was fun putting

0:17.3

Alexi through that ridiculous survey. My health is almost back at peak form. I'm

0:24.7

nearly cured. Thank you for all the love and care. I just wanted to tell you before this episode,

0:30.6

which is a really cool conversation between Alexi Sale and Andrew Feinstein, that this was actually

0:37.3

filmed in Alexi's living room and the full

0:40.8

video version of this is available on the YouTube so if you're listening to this on your

0:45.6

favourite podcast app head over to the YouTube and watch the video version if you like or just

0:51.0

enjoy the audio version and of course like I last episode, I'm going to do my best wherever possible from now on.

1:01.4

Any episode that we record, I'm going to have video versions available on our Patreon

1:07.9

because we record them on a program or on a website called Zencaster,

1:12.9

which records the video and the audio.

1:15.5

You know, it's a bit of extra work, but subscriptions to the Patreon are steadily increasing.

1:21.8

Thank you very much.

1:23.5

I think you deserve a treat.

1:26.1

So head over to patreon.com forward slash Alexisl podcast and sign up if you haven't already.

1:32.6

You know, buy us like a packet of mince a month.

1:37.1

I'm sick of saying buy us a coffee a month.

1:40.0

A potted plant every two months.

1:44.1

You know, something cheap.

1:46.3

It's not much.

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