Alexei Sayle's highly acclaimed hilarious short stories dramatised for the radio, starring some of the UK's foremost comic actors and introduced and narrated by the author.

Alexei Sayle takes a train journey and breaks the golden rule of travelling by train in the UK - he actually talks to his fellow passengers to explore and reveal the lives of strangers on the train.

London Is Funny interviews Alexei Sayle. He talks about his first-ever stand-up gig, at The Comedy Store, in May 1979.

Alexei Sayle speaks about compering the chaotic Comedy Store, 'Thatcher gags', and how nobody spotted the incredible potential of those early gigs. Alexei Sayle on the 1979 Comedy Store gig 'that ...