Ep. 493 - Alexei Sayle
My Time Capsule
Cast Off Productions
4.8 • 817 Ratings
🗓️ 18 May 2025
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Alexei Sayle is an actor, author, stand-up comedian, television presenter and former recording artist. He was one of the leading figures in the British alternative comedy movement in the 1980s, becoming the leading performer at The Comic Strip, in Soho. In 1981, he wrote and performed the radio series, Alexei Sayle and the Fish People, for which he won a Pye Radio Award. This was followed by Alexei Sayle and the Dutch Lieutenant's Trousers, and two series of Lenin of the Rovers, a 1988 comedy about Britain's first communist football team. He returned to Radio 4 in 2016 with Alexei Sayle's Imaginary Sandwich Bar, which has run for five critically acclaimed series so far. His first high-profile television appearances were on Central Independent Television's late-night alternative cabaret show O.T.T. and several appearance in The Young Ones. He’s had his own shows, three series of Alexei Sayle's Stuff for which he won an International Emmy, two series of The All New Alexei Sayle Show (1994–1995) and one series of Alexei Sayle's Merry-Go-Round On film he’s appeared in The Secret Policeman's Other Ball, Gorky Park, The Caucasian Chalk Circle, The Supergrass, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Carry On Columbus, The Legend of the Tamworth Two, and How to Build a Girl, among others. He’s also been in Dr Who, The Comic Strip Presents, Selling Hitler, Tipping the Velvet, Bremner, Bird and Fortune, Rob Brydon's Annually Retentive, Miss Marple, Horrible Histories, New Tricks, Toby City, Casualty, and lots more. He’s written two short story collections, five novels, including a graphic novel and a radio series spin-off book, as well as columns for various publications. He can be heard on Alexei Sayle's Strangers on a Train on BBC Sounds Where he breaks the golden rule of travelling by train in the UK - by actually talking to his fellow passengers and his own podcast is available now, and it’s called the Alexei Sayle Podacst .
Alexei Sayle is our guest in episode 493 of My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things he'd like to put in a time capsule; four he’d like to preserve and one he’d like to bury and never have to think about again .
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to my time capsule. I'm Mike Fenton-Stevens, and my time capsule |
| 0:14.5 | and my time capsule is the podcast where people tell me five things from their life they wish they had in a time capsule. |
| 0:21.3 | They pick four things that they cherish, |
| 0:23.2 | and one thing they'd like to forget forever |
| 0:25.7 | by burying it in the ground. |
| 0:28.2 | My very special guest in this episode is Alexi Sale. |
| 0:32.4 | Alexi is an actor, author, stand-up comedian, |
| 0:35.1 | television presenter, and former recording artist. He was one of the leading |
| 0:39.3 | figures in the British alternative comedy movement in the 1980s, becoming the leading performer |
| 0:44.8 | at the comic strip in Soho. In 1981, he wrote and performed the radio series Alexis Sale and the |
| 0:50.9 | Fish People, for which he won a Pi Radio Award. This was followed by |
| 0:55.1 | Alexis Sale and the Dutch Lieutenant's trousers, and two series of Lenin of the Rovers, a 1988 |
| 1:01.2 | comedy about Britain's first communist football team. He returned to Radio 4 in 2016, with |
| 1:07.6 | Alexis Sayle's imaginary sandwich bar, which has run for five critically acclaimed series so far. |
| 1:14.0 | His first high-profile television appearances were on Central Television's late-night alternative cabaret show, OTT, |
| 1:21.5 | and of course several appearances in the young ones. |
| 1:25.0 | He's had his own shows as well, Three series of Alexis sales staff, for which |
| 1:29.1 | he won an international Emmy, two series of the all-new Alexis Hales show, and one series of Alexis |
| 1:35.2 | sales merry-go-round. On film, he appeared in the secret policeman's other ball, Gorky Park, |
| 1:41.3 | the Caucasian Chalk Circle, the Supergrass, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. |
| 1:46.4 | Yeah, I bet you'd forgotten that. |
| 1:47.9 | Carry on Columbus, the legend of the Tamworth II, and how to build a girl, amongst others. |
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