Alexei Sayle's Imaginary Sandwich Bar

Alexei Sayle's Imaginary Sandwich Bar is a stand up and storytelling BBC Radio 4 show hosted and written by Alexei Sayle.^[1]

Alexei Sayle's Imaginary Sandwich Bar

Genre	Comedy
Running time	30 minutes
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Language(s)	English
Home station	BBC Radio 4
Written by	Alexei Sayle
Produced by	Joe Nunnery
Original release	22 November 2016
No. of series	5
No. of episodes	20
Website	https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09fb6n5

The show features Alexei delivering "a mixture of stand-up, memoir and philosophy from behind the counter of his imaginary sandwich bar".^[2][3] It has garnered critical acclaim, winning a BBC Audio Drama award in 2020.^[4]

The first episode aired in 2016, with 5 series having aired as of 2025.

A tie-in book was released in 2017.^[5]

Episodes

Series 1

Ep	Title	Original air date
1	Pretending and Sandwiches	15 November 2016 (2016-11-15)
2	Political Beliefs	22 November 2016 (2016-11-22)
3	Careerism	29 November 2016 (2016-11-29)
4	History and the Role of the Entertainer	6 December 2016 (2016-12-06)

Series 2

Ep	Title	Original air date
1	Britain's Place in the World	9 November 2017 (2017-11-09)
2	The Financial Crash	16 November 2017 (2017-11-16)
3	Death and Travel	23 November 2017 (2017-11-23)
4	La Vie Moral	30 November 2017 (2017-11-30)

Series 3

Ep	Title	Original air date
1	Corbyn and the Left	12 September 2019 (2019-09-12)
2	Santa Claused Faced Old...	19 September 2019 (2019-09-19)
3	Rage and Resentment	26 September 2019 (2019-09-26)
4	Kings of Comedy	3 October 2019 (2019-10-03)

Series 4

Ep	Title	Original air date
1	A Monopoly of Violence	20 October 2022 (2022-10-20)
2	The Revolving Door	27 October 2022 (2022-10-27)
3	The Way We Live Now	3 November 2022 (2022-11-03)
4	Repetition. Repetition. Repetition.	10 November 2022 (2022-11-10)

Series 5

Ep	Title	Original air date
1	The Sense of an Abrupt Ending	1 March 2025 (2025-03-01)
2	What is this place you have brought me to Roger?	8 March 2025 (2025-03-08)
3	Jumping the Shark	15 March 2025 (2025-03-15)
4	Unsweet Charity	22 March 2025 (2025-03-22)