Amusing account: Alexei Sayler shared his memoir at Bewdley Festival. Photo by Colin Hill.
AN evening with Alexei Sayle gave us an evocative and amusing account of Alexei's communist upbringing in Liverpool in the 1950s and 1960's.
He recounted how his parent's views, as well as their desire to protect him from emotional trauma, prevented him from seeing the Walt Disney film Bambi with his friends. Instead he had to endure Sergei Eisenstein's film Alexander Nevsky which Alexei claimed was far more horrific than the death of Bambi's mother.
After the interval Alexei took a wide ranging set of questions from the lively audience who were evidently enjoying his performance.
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