Alexei Sayle: Stalin, the Young Ones and my mum
Raised by staunch communist parents in 1960s Liverpool, it was Eisenstein, not Bambi, for the young Alexei Sayle. But the comic's odd childhood has made for a hilarious new memoir.
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