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The Alexei Sayle Podcast

68: Trusty Arabian Sidekick

The Alexei Sayle Podcast

Alexei Sayle and Talal Karkouti

Society & Culture, Comedy, Government

4.8610 Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2025

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Alexei and Talal discuss last week's protest, Lenin of The Rovers and pick a winner of the final Lego Alexei prize.

Don't forget to watch 1968's "If...." before next week's Alexei Sayle Film Club!

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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, everybody and welcome to episode 68 of the AlexiSail podcast.

0:23.9

And AlexiSel was involved in a right old, right old Michigas at the weekend.

0:34.7

You're going to ask me about it, T'allal?

0:36.6

Yeah, well, yeah, we got an email from Tim, who was also there.

0:39.9

He said on Saturday, I got violently harassed by a cop in front of my nine-year-old child,

0:45.2

but others got far worse treatment.

0:47.6

It shows how scared kid-starver is of our movement.

0:51.8

Yes.

0:52.8

We have all ages, all professions, all faiths, all sexualityities, all colors, all genders, all classes, and our marches aren't going away. Bless you, Alexi and T-Bone. And what's he talking about, Alexi? And were you also there? And was I also there? Yes. Yes, was you also there. So in the middle of last week, at this point,

1:15.4

the march, they agreed, I think, in October or November,

1:18.3

that the march could go from the BBC,

1:21.1

where it would protest against BBC,

1:23.5

incontorvertible BBC bias against Palestine.

1:32.1

They're in there reporting to Whitehall.

1:35.2

Then suddenly, I think with a week to go or something,

1:36.5

the police suddenly said,

1:39.0

reversed their position and said they couldn't.

1:41.3

The march couldn't set off at the BBC because they'd heard from the the rabbi of the of a synagogue

1:46.3

that's a bit further up uh great Portland streets that you know that he'd said that I don't

1:52.7

not quite you know that it would disturb his parishioners I mean this is despite the fact

1:57.4

that demonstrations have been leaving from outside the BBC for the last 15 months,

2:02.2

I think there were also, there was heavier, I don't know if there was heavier pressure

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