Venue: Tenby Leisure Centre

Time: 8pm

Details: Alexei Sayle performs excerpts from his new book 'Stalin Ate My Homework' an hilarious memoir of his confusing life as the son of Communist parents, his childhood in Eastern Europe and his years as a teenage Maoist.Stalin Ate My Homework is a funny and perceptive portrait of a family, a city, a country and a continent going through enormous changes. Naturally Alexei will also answer questions from the audience about anything from his dazzling show business career to easy stubborn stain removal.

Alexei Sayle was born in Liverpool on the day egg rationing came to an end. He always knew his parents were different. They ate salad. And they only read the Soviet Weekly. They also travelled to seaside towns to attend union conferences and they travelled
across Europe. Determined to see Communism in action, they went to Czechoslavkia, where they visited the sites of massacres, rode in space age limousines and sat in the audience of bizarre mime shows.

"A national treasure...a comic delight...if you saw off screen Alexei on your travels you'd cross the road - not to avoid him but to cuddle him” Evening Standard

Considered one of the funniest "alternative" comedians in Britain in the 1980s and quite the “enfant terrible”, the real Alexei Sayle was sometimes hard to separate from his caricatures: "the angry cockney mod poet" and "the socialist comedian". The Comic Strip alerted the world to Sayle’s talents; he appeared in The Secret Policeman's Other Ball; played various roles in the sitcom The Young Ones; was in the Doctor Who serial Revelation of the Daleks; and acted in Shakespeare’s The Tempest, directed by Jonathan Miller, at the Old Vic. Gorky Park (1983) marked Sayle’s first proper movie appearance. This evening he will be reading selected passages from his memoir, telling anecdotes from his extraordinary life, and answering questions from the audience about anything from his dazzling showbiz career to easy stubborn stain removal. Don’t say you haven’t been warned.