
Wed 27 Oct 7.30pm
Alexei Sayle was born in Liverpool on the day egg rationing came to an end...
tonight he performs excerpts from his new book, a hilarious memoir of his confusing life as the son of Communist parents, his childhood in Eastern Europe and his years as a teenage Maoist...
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Sat 30 Oct 7.30pm
Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Iran are often in the news for all the wrong reasons. Starting in Beirut, broadcaster and writer John Pilkington unravelled a picture quite different from the news stories as he followed a winding route via the Euphrates, the Caucasus and the Valleys of the Assassins to finish on the Persian Gulf.
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