Alexei Sayle
Born | August 7, 1952 |
Hometown | Anfield, Liverpool, England |
Height | 5'10" (1.78m) |
Spouse | Linda Rawsthorn (m 1974 - present) |
Parents | Joseph Henry Sayle , Molly Sayle |
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The week in audio: Archetypes With Meghan; Alonement With Francesca Specter; Alexei Sayle’s Strangers on a Train
New podcast host the Duchess of Sussex needs more than a nice voice; Francesca Specter is a self-sufficient gem; and Alexei Sayle proves the ideal travel companion
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Comedy programme celebrating rail travel will feature the west coast main line
A new radio comedy programme series celebrating rail travel will feature customers and staff on the west coast main line.
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Ben Elton: ‘I recognise Mrs Thatcher was a woman of principle’
At 62, Ben Elton is a grandee of British comedy. He was at the epicentre of “alternative” comedy in the early Eighties; a bespectacled, Thatcher-bashing and hypnotically garrulous figure. His whirlwind, bravura hosting of Channel 4’s Saturday Live in the mid-Eighties was watched by millions, and helped spur the proliferation of the stand-up circuit.
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1980s Glastonbury with a country wedding feel: the poetic charms of Laugharne Weekend festival
Among the many reasons Dylan Thomas gave for people moving to the tiny Carmarthenshire estuary town of Laugharne, a few remained obscure. Some residents, he believed, had no idea why they had come at all. He described them as “slowly, dopily, wandering up and down the street like Welsh opium eaters, half asleep in a heavy bewildered haze”.
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Both left and right practise ‘cancel culture’. Both should stop
Both left and right practise ‘cancel culture’. Both should stop. If we fail to defend that right for speech we dislike, we will lose it for the speech we do like
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Stand-up Alexei Sayle on the legacy of pioneering Comedy Store event
The veteran performer also recalled trying to carve out a career in America.
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Dr Martens boots aren’t cheap, and nor are the shares in today’s IPO
Comment: it’s a decent business, but should it be valued at a similar multiple of profits as Nike?
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Dawn French: 'I’m glad I’m not a young comedian right now'
On a Sunday morning in south Wales, the comedian Dawn French is telling me why she felt compelled to write about motherhood in her new novel, Because of You. ‘A lot has happened in my life since I wrote my last novel [According to Yes] five years ago,’ she says. ‘I wanted to write something deeper, darker and more layered. It had to be about the most important relationship in my life and that is about being a mum, because whoever people think I am, that is the core of me. Motherhood is my greate
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Escaping the hedonism of student life was a godsend when I was at uni. This year’s freshers need support
If the government deemed it safe for them to return, then it should be equally committed to ensuring they receive the emotional help they need
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Don't judge me by my bookshelves, which I did rearrange before my first Zoom call
I have a bookish confession to make. Well, a couple. First, just like Michael Gove and many others, I had a copy of Ian Kershaw’s brilliant biography of Adolf Hitler on my bookshelves.“Had” because (second confession), I decided to replace the two-volume work when I realised people might be able to see it when I join Zoom meetings and draw the wrong conclusions. This was some time before Mrs Gove, Sarah Vine, tweeted the “surreal” image of her bloke on TV surrounded by books about other titans o
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